| Author |
Message |
Curt Palme
CRT Tech
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 24396
Location: Langley, BC
TV/Projector: All of them!
|
| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 2:52 pm Post subject: Anyone want to do a s/call in Amsterdam? |
|
|
I sold three custom 9500LC sets to an institute in Amsterdam. I extended the CRT wiring by 3' on each tube, and two sets have fast recovery P43 phosphors in them, and each tube fires onto a different screen. Other than extending the wiring, the sets are stock.
They've had some intermittent issues with the sets; tubes dead, tubes too bright, etc.
They want to fly me over for a service call, and I'm happy to go, but I'd like to save them some money and find someone closer to them if possible. I've got no problems sending parts over ahead of time, probably 100% spare boards. I'm guessing most of the problems are loose connections in the video chain, it doesn't seem that there are component failures.
I'll email them back, but as I said, anyone closer to them with MArquee experience would be good.
Thanks!
|
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
perisoft
Joined: 29 Aug 2007
Posts: 2920
Location: Ithaca, NY
|
| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:01 pm Post subject: Re: Anyone want to do a s/call in Amsterdam? |
|
|
| Curt Palme wrote: | | They want to fly me over for a service call, and I'm happy to go, but I'd like to save them some money and find someone closer to them if possible. |
Are you nuts? Go! The Netherlands rocks... I've been all over the joint in my job (10+ cities in the US, Canada, and Helsinki/Stockholm/Budapest/Mumbai/Taipei and some others) and Amsterdam and the Hague are close to the top of the list for places I'd like to revisit. If I were you, I'd go to Amsterdam, stay an extra day, and try to spend a day or two in Stockholm. It won't be quite as neat as it was when I was there (Last June 21, so it was light almost all the time) but it's a really cool city. Expensive, though.
Anyway... I got sick of traveling in a hurry, but .nl is a pretty cool place. Plus, the trance producers are second-to-none! 
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Curt Palme
CRT Tech
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 24396
Location: Langley, BC
TV/Projector: All of them!
|
| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:03 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Maybe I should send drice and he can kill two birds with one stone, as it were? 
PS: I HATE HATE HATE trance music. I might change my mind if I dropped some E, but I don't do that stuff.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
perisoft
Joined: 29 Aug 2007
Posts: 2920
Location: Ithaca, NY
|
| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:18 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Curt Palme wrote: | | PS: I HATE HATE HATE trance music. I might change my mind if I dropped some E, but I don't do that stuff. |
Yeah, but what have you listened to and for how long? There's a ton of different genres - if you've just heard a few minutes of one genre, it's like listening to 5 minutes of Norwegian thrash metal and proclaiming that you hate rock. Try doing a search for 'A State of Trance' on shoutcast - or anywhere, really. It's a radio show done by Armin Van Buuren - he doesn't write all of the tracks, but picks the ones he spins, and the stuff is often really brilliant.
It's certainly possible that you just don't have an ear for ANY kind of trance music, but it runs a wide gamut, just like any other broad genre, so don't dismiss it too quickly. I can't stand DJ Tiesto, but love Armin - and they're even pretty similar, technically.
_________________
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Curt Palme
CRT Tech
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 24396
Location: Langley, BC
TV/Projector: All of them!
|
| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:37 pm Post subject: |
|
|
|
INteresting. I'll give it a shot.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Nashou66
Joined: 12 Jan 2007
Posts: 16171
Location: West Seneca NY
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
wallace123456
Joined: 14 Aug 2006
Posts: 2236
Location: Northwest VA area
|
| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Isn't Spotmatic in the area? If he couldn't help, maybe he knows someone.
wallace
_________________
Life Is Good, But BBQ Is Better! BBQ Competition Team
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Tim in Phoenix
Joined: 21 Oct 2006
Posts: 4409
Location: Phoenix
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
dochlywd
Joined: 25 Apr 2006
Posts: 346
Location: Saint Louis, Missouri
|
| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:52 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Craig Rounds travels there all the time. You may want to check with him.
Doc
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
1031
Joined: 22 Mar 2006
Posts: 657
Location: Finland
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
donaldk
Joined: 17 Jun 2008
Posts: 308
|
| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:18 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Contact Reinier Bauer, he did/does mostly Barco's, but he did some full reconditioning on one or several Marquee/Vidikrons as well. This sounds like the special job he still would warm up to.
Last edited by donaldk on Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:25 pm; edited 1 time in total
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Mark_A_W
Joined: 15 Mar 2006
Posts: 3068
Location: Sunny Melbourne Australia
|
| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:10 am Post subject: |
|
|
| perisoft wrote: | | Curt Palme wrote: | | PS: I HATE HATE HATE trance music. I might change my mind if I dropped some E, but I don't do that stuff. |
Yeah, but what have you listened to and for how long? There's a ton of different genres - if you've just heard a few minutes of one genre, it's like listening to 5 minutes of Norwegian thrash metal and proclaiming that you hate rock. Try doing a search for 'A State of Trance' on shoutcast - or anywhere, really. It's a radio show done by Armin Van Buuren - he doesn't write all of the tracks, but picks the ones he spins, and the stuff is often really brilliant.
It's certainly possible that you just don't have an ear for ANY kind of trance music, but it runs a wide gamut, just like any other broad genre, so don't dismiss it too quickly. I can't stand DJ Tiesto, but love Armin - and they're even pretty similar, technically. |
Trance achieved perfection in 1994!!!
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
r.bauer
Joined: 08 Apr 2006
Posts: 280
Location: The Netherlands
|
| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 1:08 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Hi Curt,
I'm always in for a nice CRT-job. Would be good to check out the setup. Maybe I can borrow some Marquee parts locally first if required. Don't mind going overthere 'just to have look' and actually see what's going on. Oh, and I do live close by. Maybe this friday?
Reinier
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Curt Palme
CRT Tech
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 24396
Location: Langley, BC
TV/Projector: All of them!
|
| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:17 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Excellent! Can you shoot me an email to curtpalme@shaw.ca and I'll get the two of you together.
Cheers!
Curt
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
jantje112
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
Posts: 328
|
| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:55 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| r.bauer wrote: | Hi Curt,
I'm always in for a nice CRT-job. Would be good to check out the setup. Maybe I can borrow some Marquee parts locally first if required. Don't mind going overthere 'just to have look' and actually see what's going on. Oh, and I do live close by. Maybe this friday?
Reinier |
I have some parts availeble from my two test chassis. Curt can borrow them for a good discounts on the MP mods he's going to sell in the future 
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
