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Author Topic: Super Simplex Mike Fitzgerald Expert Film Handler Posts: 224 From: Castle Hayne, NC, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 07-09-2002 02:12 PM                     Here goes I have obtained a Super Simplex head and Motiograph soundhead that I am going to try to use in my Portable Drive-in. Has anyone heard of a water cooled gate made for a super Simplex. We are going to be using a either 3000 or 4000 w bulb and I am looking for ways to not fry the gate or ruin any film. I was even thinking of a blower unit aimed at the gate. Any suggestions  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 07-09-2002 02:42 PM                     I don't know of any water cooled gates made for a Super or E-7. You might want to look for another projector that does. Marcus was blasting a Super Simplex with a 6,000 or 4,000 watt Xenon in Wausau, Wisconsin in the '80's, and it did hold up. However, the gate parts liked to turn blue from the heat. Aperature lates? HAH! they had to be pulled with a pair of pliers. Film damage? they probably didn't care, because the prints they got were ready for the trash anyway.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 07-09-2002 02:49 PM                        Information about heat damage: http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/newsletters/pytlak/fall97.shtml http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/newsletters/pytlak/winter97.shtml http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/newsletters/pytlak/ ------------------ John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA Tel: +1 585 477 5325 Cell: +1 585 781 4036 Fax: +1 585 722 7243 e-mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion  |  IP: Logged

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