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Author Topic: Tokiwa dealer in US? Bill Carter Expert Film Handler Posts: 162 From: Minneapolis, Minnesota Registered: Sep 1999 posted 06-28-2004 03:35 PM                     Anybody know who currently handles Tokiwa projector parts in America for the current model line? No emergency, I'm just looking for basic items like factory-made aperture plates, belts and stuff.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-28-2004 06:46 PM                     Towkia was originally handled by LP associates in Hollywood. I believe LP is still in buisness so give them a try. Other then them importing directly from Japan is abaout your only choice... and not all that difficult to do either. The big Towkia projector is a very well made machine. Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged Bill Carter Expert Film Handler Posts: 162 From: Minneapolis, Minnesota Registered: Sep 1999 posted 06-29-2004 01:17 AM                     Thanks, Mark. I'll try LP. Yes, I like the Tokiwas. I have a model TSR at home, and I take it out for an occasional "Road Show". It's very well built, and has never given me the least bit of trouble.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-29-2004 01:46 AM                     For a while ICECO was importing Tokiwa so you may want to give Steve Kramms a call  |  IP: Logged Michael Barry Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 584 From: Sydney, NSW, Australia Registered: Nov 1999 posted 06-29-2004 01:50 AM                     My first job was with a Tokiwa T-60 portable. I have never seen a 'big' Tokiwa, but the T-60 gives me nightmares just thinking about it. Of course, that had more to do with almost everything else surrounding the projector than the projector itself (the building, the staff, the installation of them, etc).  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-29-2004 09:43 AM                     "but the T-60 gives me nightmares just thinking about it." You can say thata again! The T-60 is just about the worst projector ever devised... I used to own one years ago. Mark  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 06-29-2004 01:58 PM                     Both Leonard Pincus and Steve Krams can be of help. We converted several T-60 to red laser a few years ago. Compared to other existing portables, image and sound is good, film life is another story  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-02-2004 06:19 AM                        I came across a booth with these years ago....all I had ever run up till then was Simplex and Centurys, and when I first turned this projector on, I immediately turned it off because I thought something surely had to be drastically wrong. It sounded louder than a coffee grinder. And I though, anything that SOUNDS like a GRINDER of any kind can't be good for film. It ran the couple of shows I was called in to do, but I can't imagine how that film could last even a week grunging thru that thing.  |  IP: Logged Bill Carter Expert Film Handler Posts: 162 From: Minneapolis, Minnesota Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-02-2004 10:44 AM                     I've never seen or used one of the Tokiwa portables. The TSR model is a full-sized theater machine.  |  IP: Logged

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