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Author Topic: Platter Preferences--CFS Super Platter or anything else Jeremy Fuentes Mmmm, Dr. Pepper! Posts: 1168 From: Corpus Christi, TX United States Registered: Jan 2004 posted 02-01-2005 01:56 PM                     Personally, I think the CFS platters rule the world. They are 10 times better than any other platter and 16 times better than changeovers. Dont even try to change my mind about this. I was trained on these platters, so they must be the best. Nuff said. Me and my CFS platters You and whatever you use  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-01-2005 01:59 PM                     No the Simplex Airomatic platter or the Applied Energy Rank (the green turds) rule they are only eclipsed by the EPRAD platter with the line shaft up the middle  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-01-2005 03:44 PM                     Clearly Jeremy has been smoking some opaque tape !  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-01-2005 08:06 PM                     quote: Gordon McLeod No the Simplex Airomatic platter Naw, those airomatic platters stink big time..... the remains of one is sitting in the Kaysville, UT cinema and it does still run. CFS.... you mean "Stupid Platters".......the VERY worst of the worst and I'll take the Air-o-matic platter any day over any "Stupid Platter"....at least you have the novelty of the air drive motors.... . Brad, I think Jeremey needs to be temporarily banned till he learns to love AW-3s. Mark  |  IP: Logged Joshua Waaland Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: Cleveland, Ohio Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-01-2005 10:55 PM                     Well Jeremy that depends on what you are talking about. If you want to know my preference of platters for a giant sized Frizbee then the Super Patters have my vote. They have nice straight edges that should cut down the wind resistance. If you mean to run film on however then I wouldn't trust Super Platters to run a Gigli trailer on.  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 02-02-2005 03:02 PM                     I have never worked with super platters and have heard many bad things about them. However, Jeremy likes them and he liked Anchorman, so the only logical conclusion that I can come to is that super platters are great.  |  IP: Logged Peter Mork Expert Film Handler Posts: 181 From: Newton, MA, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 02-02-2005 03:58 PM                     They're great! They suck! Are we back in Junior High now?  |  IP: Logged Dean Kollet Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 591 From: Florida State University Registered: Jul 2003 posted 02-02-2005 06:44 PM                     personally, I think that CFS super platters suck balls ....just kidding, I've never used them  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-02-2005 07:04 PM                     Yep, "Stupid platters" .. goofiest damned things ever created. And I though those air-driven ones were goofy-hearing those "taking off" every time the brain switch opened up. You need to work with a Super to understand what we all talk about. (YEECH!)  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 02-03-2005 02:47 AM                     Clearly this is way above a number of heads. Super Platters kick ass.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-03-2005 03:38 AM                     ..I think Jeremy wanted to "stir up a wasp's nest" with this topic - just to see how much flak he'd get (and harrassements as well..lol). Prob, he can't stand CFS "sloppy platters", or doesn't even know what they are. He just wanted to get us going again after witnessing that "Hellfire and Brimstone" barrage given from the fellows in that opaque tape topic. And, if he gets quite a bunch of flak, we'll have to take a 50 gallon barrel full of Dr. Pepper and baptize him in that stuff. He won't forget that. (lol) -Monte  |  IP: Logged Cory Isemann Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: White Plains, MD, USA Registered: Jun 2004 posted 02-03-2005 08:21 AM                        Only having dealt with two makes of platters, I would have to lean to Neumade over Strong. I like the design better, and they're less likely to throw prints.  |  IP: Logged Christian Volpi Master Film Handler Posts: 349 From: Arlington, NE Registered: Apr 2004 posted 02-03-2005 08:26 AM                        No way. The old SPECO platters rule. I mean the brain can't be removed which makes print movement a breeze. The center rings can be bent with my little toe. Oh, and those old pressboard MUT's!! I love them!  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Fuentes Mmmm, Dr. Pepper! Posts: 1168 From: Corpus Christi, TX United States Registered: Jan 2004 posted 02-03-2005 10:42 AM                     quote: Monte L Fullmer ..I think Jeremy wanted to "stir up a wasp's nest" with this topic Nah, just wanted to show that open-mindedness is dumb. I have only worked with the CFS and Strong platters. Trying to convince me that anything is better than those platters is just a waste of time. I'm obviously kidding here...CFS and Strong platters seem to be like Opaque and Zebra tape and AW3's are clear tape, at least thats what I gather from the opinions here. quote: Mark Gulbrandsen I think Jeremey needs to be temporarily banned I couldnt agree more. quote: Adam Martin Clearly this is way above a number of heads Yup. quote: Chris Hipp However, Jeremy likes them and he liked Anchorman, so the only logical conclusion that I can come to is that super platters are great. Finally someone who uses logic! Anchorman ruled!! Brad loved it too!!  |  IP: Logged Joshua Waaland Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: Cleveland, Ohio Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-03-2005 11:20 AM                     For anyone who has never used a stinkin platter, here is just a taste: First: the microswitches were just that. Micro. You could barely see the damn things and they just didn't hold up. I got to be a expert at changing them in the middle of a show. Second: The make-up rings didn't hold tension on the film like a Potts ring. When you tried to move a print it fell apart. Third: The goofy contraption they used on the variacs on the 5 deck models sucked. There was a bunch of linkage connecting the variac to the take up traveler. The set screw that held the linkage on the variac stem would always work its way loose. Even Loctite could not hold it. When the film ended and it came crashing down the set screw would gouge the hell out of the variac stem and you eventually got a very deep groove in the stem. This prevented being able to tighten the screw properly and it would spin on the stem. (Carmike was too cheap to replace it) This caused the platter to run at the wrong speed because the linkage was not tight on the stem, which in turn caused the traveler to start running up and down in cycles. When it would get to the bottom it would race back up and snap the film from tension. Fourth: The dang thing would throw prints all the time for no apparent reason and sometimes it threw them due to the first point I made. Fifth: The brains were stationary and there was little clearance for film moving on the 5 decks. All in all I would say they sucked rear end. I have used Potts, Christie, Strong and I would say they all beat stupid platters hands down. I would agree Jeremy probably started this post just to get things going. Jeremy you are such a trouble maker. What's next, Abortion, Euthenasia, Death Penalty, Politics?  |  IP: Logged

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