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Author Topic: Manuals for RCA TP66? Sean Weitzel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Vacaville, CA (1790 miles west of Rockwall) Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-18-2002 10:10 AM                     So I managed to acquire two RCA TP66's with the multiplexer and the ikegami camera. Anyone out there have any kind of documentation for this system? Looks like all I am missing is the waveform monitor from the camera cabinet.  |  IP: Logged Bill Carter Expert Film Handler Posts: 162 From: Minneapolis, Minnesota Registered: Sep 1999 posted 10-24-2002 06:55 PM                     I have the full TP-66 manual with assembly diagrams and circuit schematics. Is anyone interested in this for the manuals page?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 10-25-2002 06:05 AM                     Please send it in and we'll add it to the archives for the masses. pdf files to: manuals@film-tech.com  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 10-25-2002 03:39 PM                     Warning, Brad! I, too have a manual for the TP-66. There are several versions of this series of projector, and several manuals. Also, it is a big one. Bruce... Not trying to cause problems.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 10-25-2002 04:41 PM                     When you finish chugging that bottle, send your version in and we'll put them both up.  |  IP: Logged Bill Carter Expert Film Handler Posts: 162 From: Minneapolis, Minnesota Registered: Sep 1999 posted 10-26-2002 12:36 AM                     I'll bet Bruce never shares his drink... just keeps it all for himself!  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 10-27-2002 09:13 PM                     (hick) I've got no way to scan this manual. It is for a certain serial number group. It's almost an inch and a half thick!  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 03-08-2009 01:25 PM                 It has been 2323 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Scott Smith Film Handler Posts: 5 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Apr 2008 posted 03-08-2009 01:25 PM                        Bruce or Bill, Do you still have the TP-66 manuals? I could use a copy, which I would be happy to pay for. --Scott Smith  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-08-2009 05:02 PM                     Scott, As you may know I used to service alot of TP-66's when I worked in Broadcast in Chicago. They are not all that great of machine personally... reliable but kinda hard on film and definately not kind to old acetate prints that may have some damage. The Pic Clear units typically used on those projectors I believe were responsable for scratching more prints than than any other aspect. So if yours has one beware of it if you ever use it and change the pads after every reel. Film Guard and associated cleaning media works alot better and is far safer. My favorite Film Chain projector was the Eastman 25 version... which as you know from working with JAmes is a much higher grade machine but not as common. Chicago was mainly an RCA town. A few stations... Channel 7... had an Ikegami projector and camera. Mark  |  IP: Logged Jeff Stricker Master Film Handler Posts: 481 From: Calumet, Mi USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 03-09-2009 06:53 AM                     We had RCA TP-66's at channel 5 in Cleveland in the mid-60's. (They were an "all RCA station") Those TP-66's sure were fast starting.  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 03-09-2009 10:33 AM                       Fast starting was the whole idea in a film chain as you had to go from still frame to speed like now. There was a sound drum solenoid to start the drum rolling so the sound would not wow.  |  IP: Logged Sean Weitzel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Vacaville, CA (1790 miles west of Rockwall) Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-09-2009 11:45 AM                     Wow a thread of mine gets bumped after 7 years. I ended up selling off the machines I had. One machine, the multiplexer and camera went to a fellow film-techer who I believe re-sold it to a 16mm collector. The other machine and all of the manuals I managed to acquire went to another 16mm collector. You might want to contact him to see if you can arrange for a copy to be made. Contact Wayne Tuell at http://www.16mmdrive-infilms.com/  |  IP: Logged Scott Smith Film Handler Posts: 5 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Apr 2008 posted 03-09-2009 01:13 PM                        The thread that won't die! Thanks all for the replies. Sean: I'll check with the guy you mentioned. Mark: Yeah, I'm well aware of the issues with the film handling, as well as the Pic-Clear problems, We are obviously going for speed here, not for quality They're still a cut above the usual run-of-the mill Elmos and Eiki's, though. I have used the Eastman's in the past as well, which are definitely superior, but a bit harder to find. However, if anyone knows of any Eastman telecine units lurking out there, let me know. Thanks, --Scott  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 03-15-2009 12:11 PM                     I hated those pic-clear units. They caused the tension arms on the TP-66 to really go high. My TV station destroyed more cartoon reels on them. I still have the manuals around the pile here for the 66. I need to dig them out. I have 2 machines of my own now. One is a really old one with the round RCA logo allover it, and the other is one that was bought by my TV station new less than a year before they stopped using 16mm. It has less than 100 hours of use on it. They paid around $80k for this machine. My manual covers both of them, but not entirely. And I agree with the others about their being rough on film. But, compared to the old TP-6's that they replaced, they were pussycats with sharp claws.  |  IP: Logged

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