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Author Topic: What does a film stripper do? Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 05-24-2004 01:02 AM                     Exactly what the subject says. I know what it is and where it is located, but what is its purpose? This has been bugging me for quite some time, I just never thought to ask.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 05-24-2004 01:14 AM                        It's sole purpose is to scratch up and damage the film, scraping, or stipping the image off completely, hence the name. Or maybe it's one of those "shield" thingies above the sprockets that prevents the film from wrapping entirely around a sprocket. I can't remember which.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 05-24-2004 01:28 AM                        Film strippers... Didn't Phil used to work with a bunch of them?  |  IP: Logged Josh Jones Redhat Posts: 1207 From: Plano, TX Registered: Apr 2000 posted 05-24-2004 04:01 AM                        Yeah, Joe's right. In the event of a film break, it keeps the film from wrapping around the sprocket, and causing mechanical damage to the mechanism. Josh  |  IP: Logged Ken Lackner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1907 From: Atlanta, GA, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 05-24-2004 06:19 PM                     So why did Strong decide to remove them with the Millenium?  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 05-24-2004 06:36 PM                     Because they want to sell you a bunch of gears after the film wraps around the sprocket(s)umpteen times and strips all your gears out.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-24-2004 06:36 PM                     I always thought it was a table dancer who stripped off layers film  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-24-2004 07:24 PM                     A customer recently had a film wrap on a lower Simplex PR1060 sprocket and it stripped the gear. Shows you that even film strippers are not always going to prevent everything from happening. Case in point in that it was an old SDDS header that got wrapped up. Mark  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-24-2004 07:35 PM                     Film strippers are basically useless with polyester film anyways, as the film won't break- I have also seen polyester film wrap around sprockets in a Century (feeds and soundhead holdback) and continue to wrap until something gave (usually not the film) or the mech simply stopped cold. -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 05-24-2004 11:11 PM                     Aaron, true...the polyester stuff don't break. However, some of the shitty splicing techniques used by some people will allow the splice to hinge and separate. This is where a problem could really come in and start wrapping around a sprocket.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-26-2004 05:30 PM                  quote: Paul Mayer Film strippers... Didn't Phil used to work with a bunch of them? Gosh Paul, I just now noticed your post. While that may have been true in the past, I have moved WAY beyond that sorta film. I'm currently casting for "Flying Solo" to be filmed in Dallas in June. Ummm...there will be no faces shown... >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 05-26-2004 05:35 PM                        I'm so there! I'll send along a list of my "hand job" credits under separate cover...  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-26-2004 05:58 PM                  Geee Paul, got your email, but that sure is a *tiny* list.... >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged

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