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Author Topic: Static Justin Gorka Expert Film Handler Posts: 174 From: High Wycombe, England Registered: Apr 2006 posted 03-16-2007 03:07 PM                     We have a print that has a continual static problem. The booth has a good humidity level, the platters are aluminium, so earthing will not work, we're not allowed to add 'foreign' substances to prints - polish, Filmguard, hashish etc, and I've used anti-static cleaner on the platters. It is just this one print. We have Strong platters and associated brain units. Any ideas?  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-16-2007 03:20 PM                     quote: Justin Gorka the platters are aluminium, so earthing will not work Why not? Aluminum conducts electricity.  |  IP: Logged Justin Gorka Expert Film Handler Posts: 174 From: High Wycombe, England Registered: Apr 2006 posted 03-16-2007 04:04 PM                     Extremely poorly. I did try that last night!  |  IP: Logged Ken McFall Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 615 From: Haringey, London. Registered: Apr 2001 posted 03-16-2007 04:17 PM                     What has worked for me in the past is to alternate the waythe print runs onto the take up plate. One show sound up the next sound down..... This also worked in the early days of towers when polyester prints first became the norm. We would run sound out then sound in on the take up spool. Hope this helps.  |  IP: Logged Frank Dubrois Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 896 From: Cleveland, OH Registered: Mar 2005 posted 03-16-2007 08:33 PM                    quote: Justin Gorka we're not allowed to add 'foreign' substances to prints - polish, Filmguard No Filmguard? I bet your prints look fantastic after running for a while....  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-16-2007 08:40 PM                        It is possible to not use Film-Guard and still have good looking prints. Just not as easy.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 03-17-2007 03:01 AM                     quote: Mike Blakesley It is possible to not use Film-Guard and still have good looking prints .. just the daily blowing out of the dust, or even between each showing, can keep a print clean without FG for weeks on end. Been there and done that LONG before FG came into being. ....but I wouldn't use any antistatic stuff since it's a bit on the stickey side where it leaves a residue (I've seen theatres use ScotchGuard on prints to "try" to eliminate static cling...so retarded) and your static problem will remain on that one. Maybe, run the booth on the slight moist side since A/C units drys out the air and promotes static like mad. ..and earth as much as you can with those STRONG units. good luck - Monte  |  IP: Logged Justin Gorka Expert Film Handler Posts: 174 From: High Wycombe, England Registered: Apr 2006 posted 03-17-2007 08:03 PM                     No Filmguard? I bet your prints look fantastic after running for a while.... Well we've had Bond running since it opened, had the last Pirates for months, the only time we have problems is with poor quality prints or so called "treated" prints that have been abused before we get them. Plastic additions, in my opinion, are for the amateurs.  |  IP: Logged William Phillips Expert Film Handler Posts: 117 From: Cardigan, Wales, UK Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-18-2007 06:58 AM                        Whats the film your playing with static problems?  |  IP: Logged Justin Gorka Expert Film Handler Posts: 174 From: High Wycombe, England Registered: Apr 2006 posted 03-19-2007 09:58 AM                     Outlaw. Apparently we're not the only ones to have problems. Must be a film stock problem. Have given up trying to sort it and requested a new print.  |  IP: Logged Kevin Grahams Film Handler Posts: 3 From: Coventry England UK Registered: Mar 2007 posted 03-19-2007 02:40 PM                     We had trouble with "Outlaw" too, but only the one performance. Dug out the PTR's and, touch wood, no problems since.  |  IP: Logged Justin Gorka Expert Film Handler Posts: 174 From: High Wycombe, England Registered: Apr 2006 posted 03-22-2007 08:19 PM                     In the end I gave up and ordered a new print. 2 days now with no sign of a wrap and on the same platters in the the same screen. Must have been some sort of stock fault!  |  IP: Logged

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