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Author Topic: A green DP 70! Thomas Jonsson Expert Film Handler Posts: 216 From: Bromolla, Sweden Registered: Sep 2003 posted 03-12-2005 09:09 AM                       Found a german website with some 70mm projectors, among them a DP 70 painted green (!), with the upper spoolbox mounted under the lamphouse table. web page Probably painted green for some special reason. I´ve never heard of any DP 70 painted other than the original bronze color. Perhaps Mark Gulbrandsen know some more? Thomas  |  IP: Logged Greg Mueller Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1687 From: Port Gamble, WA Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-12-2005 01:42 PM                        I've seen a couple of shades of the brownish color, one was more of a golden brown. Looks like this one's been modified quite a bit. The "control panel" has been changed quite a bit too. People do strange things to their projectors. My DP70 is painted silver and black hammertone. http://www.muellersatomics.com/homepage/film12.htm  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 03-12-2005 02:37 PM                     The two that were in the Stag at Skywalker were painted a gun-metal gray color. -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-13-2005 09:27 AM                     Thomas, That green one is GAWD AWFUL! It must have been done by some interior decorator that had a bad nightmare the night before..... Its obviously for a lobby display..... I also wouldn't want that wall paper thats behind it in my booth! And we can thank GAWD that he didn't paint it pink! There have been machines that have been "Eismanized" and the Skywalker machines, and perhaps Greg's fall in that catagory, it is also reported that some "Eismanazing" has also been performed by Internationsl Cinema Equipment in Miami, perhaps Dan is franchising his process.... BTW: Aaron, Installing new "James Bond" curved runners on those Skywalker machines took care of the really poor 35mm performance big time, and another batch of those runners is in the works. So far we have put back into manufacture the Short Xenon Lamphouse table, gate bands, stainless steel 35mm intermittent sprocket, VKF 35mm feed/holdback sprockets, pad rollers, new direct drive motor drive and mount system. We plan on keeping the between 50 and 60 or so DP-70's in this area running a long,long time for a reasonable price. Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged Greg Mueller Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1687 From: Port Gamble, WA Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-13-2005 10:09 AM                        What's "Eismanized"?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-13-2005 10:22 AM                     A Person on the west coast that rebuilds film equipment and also does custom work. Known to paint something a different color than it originally was.... Mark  |  IP: Logged Greg Mueller Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1687 From: Port Gamble, WA Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-13-2005 11:48 AM                        Mine wouldn't be "Eismanized" then. I had all my castings sand blasted and then repainted them myself. All the bearings were replaced and all the gears too. The intermittent was rebuilt and virtually all parts are as close to "new" condition as is possible, given the 50 years since it was made. I still have a few parts to acquire, but I would say I'm 90% new. If I were 100% then I wouldn't have anything to do. But no "Eisman" here.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-13-2005 12:00 PM                     I've torn down many movements that were still like new inside and had no signs of wear.... pretty amazing considering the wallpaper sized film that ran through them over the decades of use they saw. Have seen gears, bearings, and shafts in alot of differnt states. Some of the orignal motors were way to hard on the main drive gear train and those normally show some wear. We have switched to inverter drive motors on all DP-70 installations. We generally set them for a nice 6 second run up and down time. That is much easier on those main drive gears! Mark  |  IP: Logged Thomas Jonsson Expert Film Handler Posts: 216 From: Bromolla, Sweden Registered: Sep 2003 posted 03-13-2005 03:26 PM                       Mark, I agree the DP70 looks terrible in green. The red dots must be the machine partly blushing of embarrasement. Your new motors for the DP70, do you mount them on the original gearbox or on a completely new bracket? Greg Mueller, Your DP70 looks great! But one thing confused me a little. All DP70´s I´ve seen (until now) have two small "signs" on the projector head door (Philips logo and AO), but your machine has just one. What does it say? Thomas  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-13-2005 04:36 PM                     Thomas, We mount them on a completely new bracket The motor is direct drive to the input shaft. These also have a feature that automatically jogs them to the thread position when the motor stops. Mark  |  IP: Logged Greg Mueller Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1687 From: Port Gamble, WA Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-13-2005 04:43 PM                        Thomas It says... "North American Philips Company.....Norelco" I've got the two "wing" shields, at least the metal parts, but I have only one of the "shields" that go in them. I was going to have them chromed or gold plated (whatever)and install them, if I ever find the other shield. The search goes on.... Since that picture was taken I've found, painted and installed a new arc lamp table that doesn't have any holes in it  |  IP: Logged Darren Briggs Master Film Handler Posts: 371 From: York, UK Registered: Dec 2001 posted 03-15-2005 01:06 PM                        Kinda like the green one in a stange way. Check out this pair of DP70's. http://www.uk70mm.com/cinemas/rex.html Just been installed last Dec. Darren  |  IP: Logged Per Hauberg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 883 From: Malling, Denmark Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-15-2005 06:51 PM                        WHAT THE F... -GREEN ???! It looks like as tank - Brad Miller will love this.... Sacrilege is the word ! p  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-15-2005 07:31 PM                     quote: Greg Mueller but I have only one of the "shields" that go in them. Greg, We have a small bin full of shields and the inserts. Just e-mail me which one you need. I think I will re-paint one of my FP-56's in retaliation for that Green DP-70. Lets see.... Purple with chartrouse end caps on the rollers . WTF*&$^%@@%$$$)! I'd like to know who the iddiot was that painted it to use for display when it should be running in the booth like when it was new! Mark  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-16-2005 01:33 AM                        quote: Darren Briggs Check out this pair of DP70's. http://www.uk70mm.com/cinemas/rex.html Sharp equipment, sharp booth. Knockout auditorium, & it's great to see that some folks understand off the bat that all the parts in the machine have to work for the whole thing to work. That proscenium is an eyeball-sucker. Those folks will be back. Usually in the USA, those pierced surfaces usually had arrays of lights behind them so that sometimes you can stun people with the view front-lighted, then when they start to get acclimated, turn on the lights behind for the Close Encounters UFO tractor beam effect. I wonder if there were lights behind the proscenium grillework at the Rex.  |  IP: Logged

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