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Author Topic: 5 star soundhead mounting Richard May Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1057 From: Floral Park, NY USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 03-06-2012 07:37 PM                     Will a 5 star soundhead mount to a pedestal that had an SH-1000 soundhead before?  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 03-06-2012 09:01 PM                        Perfectly, but it is debatable which is better. I would rather have the sh1000.  |  IP: Logged Richard May Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1057 From: Floral Park, NY USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 03-07-2012 08:21 AM                     Thanks Louis.  |  IP: Logged Robert Koch Film Handler Posts: 93 From: Williams Ca USA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 03-10-2012 02:18 PM                     Amen to Louis reply. They were going backwards when they made the 5star.  |  IP: Logged Victor Liorentas Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: london ontario canada Registered: May 2009 posted 03-10-2012 02:25 PM                     I just wish there was a way to replace the dirt embedding roller.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 03-10-2012 07:33 PM                     You can get rid of it all together. Modifying a Simplex 5 Star Soundhead to be More Film Friendly  |  IP: Logged Victor Liorentas Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: london ontario canada Registered: May 2009 posted 03-10-2012 08:19 PM                     I was told you cant do this to the sh1000.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 03-10-2012 08:24 PM                     I tried that trick on a 5-Star and it did work real good (reminds me of the split roller assembly of the Cinemecanica V series), but the owners didn't like my mod saying that it could really damage film..so out it went and back to the rubber pressure roller..  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-11-2012 07:06 AM                     It won't work in a changeover set up either. Without the pinch roller, the drum won't come up to speed in time. To make this mod really work one would have to machine their own drum so that the guide rollers could put pressure on the drum in lieu of the pinch roller.  |  IP: Logged Paul Gordon Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 580 From: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Registered: Aug 2005 posted 03-11-2012 10:01 AM                        Or just use a Century Sound head  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 03-11-2012 10:03 AM                        Yes, Century. No shortage now! Louis  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-11-2012 04:45 PM                     The Century was a far cry from perfect either...normally really poor machining and very poor consistency from unit to unit.  |  IP: Logged Robert Koch Film Handler Posts: 93 From: Williams Ca USA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 03-11-2012 07:40 PM                     Steve is certainly right on [as usual] with comments on the Century. Poor workmanship was the norm on these reproducers.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 03-11-2012 08:45 PM                        Has a Davis bridge, though. Besides Westrex who else does? Louis  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-11-2012 11:14 PM                     Not really...it is Davis like. A real Davis loop is what you see in a 4-track penthouse, a digital penthouse. It is fully isolated. Due to the method the Century machined their bearing retainers, the drum can/does orbit a bit. There is an inherent slop between the feed and holdback sprockets and no two dampers are the same. Most of them also laterally shift the film as the lateral guide roller moves up and down. Note this is not an endorsement of the Simplex design but they did have superior matching from unit to unit.  |  IP: Logged

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