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Sorry you're not doing the Derby thing anymore.
Saw my first flat-track event here in the Bay area a couple weeks ago.
It was cool! But then, I never get out of the house much. Whatever will you pummel now?

I am capable of doing my wife's laundry and cleaning house at the same time. And I'm just one guy.

Film help possibility...

... or maybe...

Lastly some links.

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As with any movie projector, make sure there's a small loop of free film above and below the gate - there'll be guide marks for this. Also, at the point the film enters the projector and at the point it leaves it there will be a toothed roller which matches up against the film's sprocket holes. Whenever you thread the film manually you'll have to clip open a little lever at either roller to fit the film around this.
MAKE SURE YOU CLIP THESE BACK AFTERWARDS.
Thankfully you can test that everything is threaded okay before you turn on the projector. At the front by the lens is a milled knob - this is the inching knob with which you can move the projector mechanism - by hand - a frame at a time (understandably when you turn the projector on this will whizz round very fast). If it seems to go round fine then all is well. BUT if when you turn the projector on the film makes a rattling/buzzing noise then it's probably because one of the loops is too large. If the loop's too tight then an automatic loop former comes to the rescue. Unlike with Super 8, 16 mm projectors don't have switches for you to press if the loop goes - it should do it all by itself. If it doesn't - and you're mid way through a film - S T O P. Once the loop has seriously gone the film will certainly scratch, probably snap, and/or tear.
Again: Do you have a replacement lamp? Any spare leader? A splicer? An extra take-up spool?
One (often overlooked) thing to work out before you're projecting is where exactly the framing knob, or lever, is on your particular model. On ELF projectors this isn't marked making it nigh on impossible to locate in a panicky moment when the picture has slipped out of rack.
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What I do first is just fuck with everything. They tried to desighn everything intuitive and ergonomic, of course if your not an engineer it may not seem that way. Without being there, my advice is a little disconnected, but if you take your indext finger and curl it in that is about how big the film loop needs to be on the top and bottom of the film gate. This loop is the most important thing to get the hang of. Stay in touch and keep me informed as things progress. Cheers

Camper Van Beethoven Rules! If they were in K-ville we would totally hook them up.
I started out this art thing in an alt-rock band in the early 90s gosh it is strange to say early 90s. Anywho soundtracks are what got me into film and most of my friends outside of work are musicians.

Derby? This is a must see activity! I await with baited breath
Cheers and take care.

yes...yes, you're not your. That will teach me to proof read.

Hail to Etta James and Gladys Knight and the Pips!

Cool. When I drink whiskey and sing, I sound like Captain Beefheart. That is why I no longer drink zee whiskey.

By night fall, my elbow was the size of a grape fruit.
I took two advil before bed,
but this morning I could hardly get out of bed,
I am so fucked up.
My hip, my shoulder, my neck etc.
All these injuries pounced somewhere in the night.

I could tell people that my husband beats me,
but I don't have any husbands.

Besides,
I guess it's cooler to say it's all from Roller Derby.
I guess.

And we should totally do an SG Derby set.
Totally.
Before my bruises rink rash go away.

I like shiners.
In beer form, or otherwise.

Hott.

Yeah though, I think I'd rather do a 70's Roller Disco set.
Do my hair up to it's full Farrah potential.

Yeah.

I think that would be even better.

I saw a trailer for Unleashed. It looks fuckin' excellent.

i'm sorry, kung fu movies, i love you and it's breaking my heart but ever since the matrix and crap like that it's become the new 'thing' and now kung fu in movies is boring. it's like CGI, i never want to see that stuff in movies again.


also, jet li is nothing. i'd like him better if he was more interested in promoting kung fu as an art form and martial arts style and less concerned with having 18 million flying wire bullshit impossible sci-fi fights in his otherwise tearfully bad movies.


...anyway. how are you doing?

HAHAHAHA funny shit, you're pretty good.

Eh man.......supa' fly!!!

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