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Arthur Allen
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From: Renton, WA, USA
Registered: Aug 2001


 - posted 04-08-2002 09:20 PM      Profile for Arthur Allen   Author's Homepage   Email Arthur Allen   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
As seen outside the Sunset Drive-in of Othello, Washington a year or two ago. The device on the lower left corner of the photo looks like a giant intermittent, but seems too big to be one. What else could it be?


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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)


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From: New York City & Newport, RI
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Looks like an old hose holder to me...not a part of a projector.

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Darryl Spicer
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From: Lexington, KY, USA
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Way to big for an intermittent. the rim part sort of looks like the rim around a woofer or something. It could be anything. What is that large dark grey thing.

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Paul G. Thompson
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From: Mount Vernon WA USA
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I would think it is an old woofer frame, since it has holes in the rim.

That dark grey thing looks like an old arc lamp. Probably an Ashcraft.


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Jerry Chase
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From: Margate, FL, USA
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Just guessing, -
Old washing machine transmission? Maybe.

What keeps coming to mind though is an old spring loaded contactor used at my dad's radio station. I vaguely remember something having a star wheel like that that made a HUGE racket making high amperage contacts. The contacts had to be made super fast to avoid arcing, and there was a mechanism to build up spring tension and suddenly release it to move the contacts.

Is that what this is? I dunno, but the frame looks too heavy to be a speaker frame. I'd be more inclined to think it a PTO device of some sort from a tractor attachment than a speaker frame.

Then again, those notches would be good places to wrap wire to create a magnetic field... perhaps to help stabilize the arc?


Nah, I got it. It is part of ET's phone home machine.

ET has left the building.

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Barry Floyd
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From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
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The large dark grey thing is an old Ashcraft Lamphouse. I've got two of them that have the same chrome detail trim across the top. Dang things are heavy as lead, and would make a really nice gas grill!!

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Floyd Entertainment Group
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Barry Hans
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It does look like a speaker basket. Could it have been to hold the reflector? What lamphouse is that?

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Barry Hans
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Barry Floyd- Which model Ashcraft?

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John Pytlak
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Here's a link to some similar Ashcraft lamphouses. Note the similarity:
http://www.daytonsbluff.org/MoundsTheaterProjectionBooth.html

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Barry Floyd
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Both of my Ashcrafts are "Core-Lites". I picked them up from an old dead drive in about 2 years ago. The rectifiers for these things must weigh a ton !! The only way we were able to move the rectifiers was to use a hydraulic lift gate. I've had several people offer to buy them, but for now I'll hang on to them. I know I will not be using them in our drive-in, but I may put one of them on display in the lobby.

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Barry Floyd
Floyd Entertainment Group
Nashville, Tennessee
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Mark Gulbrandsen
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Perhaps this was the first attempt by the 8 perf company that is trying to build a working 15 perf projector.....
Mark

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Per Hauberg
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From: Malling, Denmark
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Nice tidy place, Washington

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Paul G. Thompson
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Per:

You should see the crap laying in the old logging roads. Junk cars, washing machines, hot water heaters, tires, and just about anything else you might think you would find in a landfill.

The Great Fathers of Washington State are partially to blame. There are so many goofy laws and regulations on the books that makes it almost impossible to dispose of most junk. Up here, you have to "Pay" sometimes big money to dispose of junk. Many low and medium income familys don't have that kind of money. So they just haul it off and dump it on an old abandoned logging road.

It really jacks my jaws.....we have a small community park and a small woods to go with it, and when I walk the little Poopers, I find screen doors, garbage, and tires that were tossed into the woods from the road.

At the theater, I have 2 junk ice heads I can't get rid of. Dumps won't take them. The city will, if we pay them some ungodly fee.....

The enviromentalists strike again! I am sure there are many states in this country that share the same problem with us.

In the southern parts of the USA, the defination of a Microsoft Spreadsheet is an inventory of the number of dead cars that are sitting on someone's property.


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Greg Mueller
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Definitely looks like it's part of a "geneva mechanism", but those are used in other places besides "intermittents". They're just power transmission gizmos like gears or chain drives, except they transmit power "intermittently" instead of continuously. Maybe a piece of farm machinery?

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Jerry Chase
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Barry, how about opening the back of yours and taking a look at the reflector mount? The 18" basket looks like an older version of the one shown on page 41 of the .pdf manual for the ashcraft lamphouse. I didn't find the geneva shaped (fibre?) plate in the .pdf document, but I think I'm now remembering something like that used as part of the mirror adjustment on some lamphouse I've seen or used. (Then again, my remembering could just be another brain fart.)

And, Arthur, please don't post puzzles like this. They drive me nuts and I don't get my work done!


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