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Author Topic: White residue? Laurie Higgins Film Handler Posts: 45 From: Norcross, GA, USA Registered: Jun 2008 posted 12-01-2009 01:40 PM                        I've got a 35mm print (indian film) that leaves a white powdery residue on all the rollers every time it is played. I clean it off, but it comes right back every time. I thought that maybe somebody before us had used white out on it to make reel breaks and that was coming off on the rollers, but can't find any on the film. Anybody else have this happen before? What the heck is it? I can't figure it out. Thanks!  |  IP: Logged Josh Bridge Film Handler Posts: 2 From: Red Deer, AB, Canada Registered: Nov 2009 posted 12-01-2009 03:24 PM                    I've had an issue with a sort of sticky (almost greasy feeling), mysterious fine white powder that occasionally appears in the projector en-mass and can get on the film. I find it also builds up on the brain. I'm pretty sure it's ashes from a moth that flew into the film trap. lol If that's what it is, running the film through a film cleaner should do it.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 12-01-2009 03:28 PM                     Search function is your friend http://www.film-tech.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=009040#000000  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 12-02-2009 12:32 AM                     I went on a service call to an 8plex in my neighboring state which contain PR-1060's. One machine was totally covered in "snow" - white film dust everywhere. The intermittent shoes were not aligned right with the sprocket and the inboard part of the shoes was actually shaving and sharpening the outside edge of the outboard sprocket teeth to where that surface of the teeth were razor sharp.. ..and this sharp edge was actually shaving out the sprocketholes... After I rebuilt the trap and gate assembly and a new sprocket, I got rid of the "snowstorm" that this machine was creating. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-02-2009 12:48 AM                        Black and white print? (I've never seen a B&W Bollywood print, but maybe this is one?)  |  IP: Logged

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