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Author Topic: Cine Wind platter question Matthew Bailey Master Film Handler Posts: 461 From: Port Arthur,TX Registered: Sep 2000 posted 02-17-2004 09:50 PM                     I just found photos of this taken at a drive in on an urban exploration site. It shows a 3 deck two tone green platter & a matching MUT next to it. On the MUT it reads Cine Wind, assuming that the platter & MUT were made by Cine Wind or someone else. The drive in in which the photos were taken at is called the Hill Top. Anyone have anything on this brand of platter? I'll find the link to the photos again later.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-17-2004 11:07 PM                     Matthew, WOW! I used to service that very platter at that very Drive In. Its like Deja Vu for me. Can you post a link to those photos? I think that D.I. is all gone now. It was located in Joliet, Illinois in a not so good part of town... It was also not far from Stateville Penn. Thats where the opening scenes of "The Blues Brothers" was filmed....... then not much of Joliet is a very safe place to be anyway. As for the platter it was not very reliable and definately not a platter I'd want to run on a daily basis. Most of my calls there were platter related about one problem with it oe another. It was made by Rank Precision(?)Industries. I remember there being a cable controled potentiometer in it that sometimes went bad and or became noisy. The cable broke at least several times. For some reason or other we were able to get parts for it from a local dealer. Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 02-17-2004 11:52 PM                    Here is a link to a pic Mark hilltop drive-in  |  IP: Logged Chris Greenwell Film Handler Posts: 28 From: West Valley, Ut Registered: Mar 2003 posted 02-18-2004 02:03 AM                     woah! that platter color is loud!  |  IP: Logged Matthew Bailey Master Film Handler Posts: 461 From: Port Arthur,TX Registered: Sep 2000 posted 02-18-2004 12:16 PM                     this site where I fond the photos were taken in April of last year. This is the link to it. http://www.geocities.com/chucksphotospot/hill22.html  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-18-2004 02:07 PM                     Like the EPRAD platter they also turned backwards I believe the manufacturer was a company in LA called applied energy or something like that the engineer went on to work for christies early autowinds  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 02-18-2004 03:41 PM                     Filbert Supply in L.A. where promoting these in addition with the "green" Rank lamphouses ( with L.P. associate parts )in the early 1970's.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-18-2004 05:50 PM                     We called them the "Green Slime" up here  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-18-2004 07:56 PM                     Green Slime is sure a good name for that stuff. While that place brings back memories of service calls from long ago I can't say that ot brings back fond memories. Can't remember how many times I replaced both the control cable and speed control pot in that platter.... at least 3 times for sure. Having to pass Stateville Prison gave one a wierd feeling about being in that part of Joliet. Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-18-2004 09:43 PM                     Back when all the green slimes up here got pitched into lake ontario so that rank wouldn't force there installation  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 02-18-2004 10:02 PM                  Wow, those pics sure are a sad commentary of better times long gone.... >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-18-2004 10:34 PM                     "Back when all the green slimes up here got pitched into lake ontario" Amazing idea and hilarious if you think about it. They are the same color as the lake so they'll never ever be seen let alone found unless one of Bob Ballards sonar laden submersibles see all those sunken disks and mistakes them for sunken UFO's! Oooniooops! I've also got to wonder if there are any of those in the Chicago river...... Mark @ CLACO P.S. I never did look in the bottom of the Christie 4kw console to see if there were extra weights up front to keep it from falling over backwards......  |  IP: Logged

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