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[mc86]

I think william's blendzilla may have both blues on the outside/reds in the inside...
Matt

[Nashou66]

Did a little more work today finishing taking the rest of the tubes out. The pivot pins on a new PJ are tight!1 they probably would have held the tubes in place even i removed the top plate with out using the "help" rod idea Dragan came up with .



All tubes removed with a 9 inch bottom plate in place.




One problem with the set of plates I had was that it had a broken pin. I used a pin from a set of M8000 plates.

Pic of Broken pin





One more thing I realized is it will not be a drop in swap!!! I need to add red C elements to the red tubes!!!!

Nashou

[wkosmann]

Yeah, as I dimly recall, when Mike and I pulled the 2 projectors down, we:

Upgraded the 8500 Ultra to a 9500 Ultra,
upgraded the 9500 to a 9500 Ultra,
added red c elements to the red CRTs,
swapped the red and blue CRTs on one of the projectors so that the blue CRTs were on the outside and the red CRTs were on the inside as you look at the projectors from the front as they are mounted on the ceiling,
replaced the green CRTs (as they had the most wear), and
may have replaced one or both blue CRTs.

It was good to get all this done at one time, instead of tearing apart the projectors multiple times.

On Thursday, Mike is coming over. We intend to pull out all 6 CRTs, remove the glycol, flush the chambers with 91% isopropyl alcohol, replace the glycol with a 90% glycol/10% distilled water mix, and re-install the CRTs. There is a fungus among us (actually a chemical reaction) that needs to be dealt with.

Need to get ready for football season. It's just around the corner!!!

Dr. Little Dog

[Nashou66]

in 5 minuts blue and green are in!!! Now I need to add a red C-element to the red tube. Maybe I will get lucky and be able to remove the Clear C and not have to take everything apart.

[Nashou66]

Easiest C element removal in history!!! I just took off the retaining ring and the Element just floated off!!!





Nashou

[Nashou66]

Red C-Element now In place. You can see a little glycol on the edge of the retaining Ring, I'll remove a table spoon full on the other red Tube.

This 9 inch swap out is going easier than I thought!!! I should have done this right when the new tubes came in!!!





nashou

[CIR Engineering]

[Nashou66]

Well I got a G90 so I am sure one day I'll find out. No Barco.........yet

Well here is the final stretch!!! All tubes in. Now I just have to remove the cage slice a bit of plastic off the Tube's plastic pin key for the 8 inch neck cards to fit( or cut the slot on the VNB to fit the tube) , Or I'll get lucky and maybe VDC made all VNBs the same in 2004.




nashou

[mx83toy]

Looking good mate!!!!

[Tim in Phoenix]

Say Nash

No mod needed on the neckboards

[Nashou66]

[Tim in Phoenix]

Say Nash

For nine inch neckboards on eight inch tubes, then some plastic needs shaving.

[Nashou66]

[mx83toy]

Hey so are you going to sell me a set of those longbow mounting plates for my marquee 8xxx not fair if you guys keep all the good bits over there how about us poor aussies my pet kangaroo and i would like to watch a colour filtered marquee as well cant have the cine7 showing up my marquee over a little thing like colour filtered lenses

[Nashou66]

[mx83toy]

[overclkr]

[jbmeyer13]

[wkosmann]

I sure hope that, as you are looking at the projector in the picture immediately above, that you are looking at the right projector in the blend (so that the blue CRT is on the outside and the red CRT is on the inside).

[Nashou66]