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Author Topic: Vic 5 Projector Oil Garry Knapp Film Handler Posts: 50 From: Mississauga Ontario Canada Registered: Oct 2016 posted 10-16-2016 03:00 PM                        I recently purchased a Victoria 5 and i'm looking for the oils for it. I have read that they are very specific as to the type of oil. Also this projector has an oil film damper on it. I am looking for that oil as well. Anyone with insight into this? are there equivalents?  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-16-2016 06:17 PM                     sae 20 no detergent no wax  |  IP: Logged Garry Knapp Film Handler Posts: 50 From: Mississauga Ontario Canada Registered: Oct 2016 posted 10-17-2016 03:07 AM                        for both the intermittent and the damper?  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 10-17-2016 07:19 AM                     Century damper oil is O.K.  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-17-2016 09:16 AM                     Presumably you won't put damper oil in the intermittent.  |  IP: Logged Garry Knapp Film Handler Posts: 50 From: Mississauga Ontario Canada Registered: Oct 2016 posted 10-17-2016 09:36 AM                        Never. The last thing i would want is to mess this beauty up... I will need to find sources for it tho. Proving difficult...  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 10-17-2016 11:31 AM                     Too quick with the keyboard.....damper silicone oil for damper only...  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-18-2016 07:41 AM                     We used refrigeration compressor oil, it's been a long time but Simplex wanted C3 and Ballantyne/Phillips wanted C4 as I recall. C3 is lower vicosity than C4. The later Simplex oil was exactly repackaged clear C3 compressor oil according to the MSDS. Earlier Simplex oil was different, a very light yellow mineral based oil - but that was before WHMIS laws and they didn't have to tell us what. Ballantyne oil was always a bit thicker and the Phillips intermittent is very similar (the Ballantyne PRO-xx being a copy of the FP20 mechanism)  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-18-2016 08:32 AM                     There is still one big difference between the Proxx intermittent and the Phillips. The star and cam in the Proxx are not hardened steel. Phillips and Simplex are hardened. Also, the Brenkert star and cam were not hardened.  |  IP: Logged Domenic Howard Film Handler Posts: 3 From: USA, Dallas, TX Registered: Oct 2016 posted 10-19-2016 09:24 AM                     use castrol taf-x  |  IP: Logged Garry Knapp Film Handler Posts: 50 From: Mississauga Ontario Canada Registered: Oct 2016 posted 10-30-2016 01:09 AM                        I have not located intermittent oil (everything is hard to get in Canada) please, if anyone knows a source for oil....  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-31-2016 08:16 AM                     I would suspect that Cinematronix would still have some in stock  |  IP: Logged

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