[QuadList] [QuadList TR-600 saga

[L.E. Odham]

Hi Don, 



I didnt see any 1200c there, but I think George found a 1200c manual there, which I think he still has. Not sure what part of the machine it covered. 

    The person you are referring to is Bradley Reeves, TAMIS president.    He moved down here from the LOC-Culpepper as a contract film archivist at ETSU-Archives of Appalachia-Johnson City. 

I came into the picture in 2004 after the AOA had recieved a donated collection of quad tapes. 

   AOA had sent the quads out to some outfit for transfer and Bradley was  unhappy with the results-and the cost. He asked my opinion and I advised him  that the only way to get control over the video quality of transfers  without paying out huge sums of money  to third  parties was to start a quad transfer operation. 

   That never did come about  at AOA because college politics got involved and when Bradleys' contract was up, he didnt renew it but instead moved back home to Knoxville and started the TAMIS archive in the East Tennessee History Center and got me on board to build the quad op we had dreamed about doing for years. 

   He showed me a picture of some TR-600s one day that were sitting over in Winston and I eventually rented a truck and went and got them, but never did anything with them at TAMIS because by that time I had rebuilt a VR-1200b for TAMIS and had amassed a large stockpile of 1200 parts.   As best as I remember, one machine was complete, and the second one was missing the power sup chassis. I did keep a lot of the common RCA parts from there, which are comi ng in handy at this time on a TR-70c restoration project  I been working on for a couple years. 

    A lady I had talked to years earlier while putting together the quad op, Grace McKay, had mentioned she had a person in Pennsylvania  that was doing work for them  with  a TR-600 . I had kept all the info from that conversation on file, so after it was decided we wern't going to pursue the 600s  any further I called Charlie Churchman and he was very happy to have them and I was glad they found a good home where they would be restored and used. 

Now thats a roundabout turn of events, but if I hadnt gone and loaded them up when I did, that kid would have hauled them away to the metal recyclers for sure. He already had cleared a pathway to the side door and moved the TR-800 1 inch machines  out . 

   One other item that TAMIS purchased  from that building was the TK -290 telecine and the 35 mm RCA projector. It is restored and sitting here. 



Larry Odham 



Quad Tape Transfer 



www.quadtapexfer.com 



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Hi Larry: 
  
Yeah....that was a good price! 
  
I'll bet you're talking about Hubert Henson's place in Winston Salem.   I got some things there too, but apparently, before I found out what was going on, they had already hauled a VR-1200C to the scrap yard!  >From what I heard, it wasn't complete but I would love to have had it if the audio was intact.  The rest of the machine could be easily replaced. 
  
I remember telling a guy you were working with in Kingsport (or Johnson City maybe?) about the pair of TR-600's that Hubert had.   Were they able to get them?  I never heard what happened to those machines, but I hope they didn't go to the scrap yard too! 
  
Don Norwood 
Digitrak Communications, Inc. 
www.digitrakcom.com 
  


----- Original Message ----- 
From: L.E. Odham 
To: Quad List 
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 1:56 PM 
Subject: Re: [QuadList] Colortec board 12 capacitor corrosion 










Hi Don & Park, 

  

Yeah I wondered a little bit about why/how such a big mess was made, too. This particular colortec may have been exposed to extreme temperature changes over a period of time in an uncontrolled storage situation. 

I'm thinking it was one of the spare pieces that came from out back of the Winston-Salem cat house guy.  The fellow's name escapes me, but I do remember all those cats running around all inside the building.  There were a couple tractor trailers full of equipment & various parts-pieces parked out back and this colortec came from one of those vans I'm pretty sure. 

Maybe  the 15-20 degree freezing temperatures made them pop, or the 120 degrees inside heat in the summer. 

  

The last batch of those exact OEM type caps I purchased was at Sky Craft in Florida last Feb. after the Orlando hamfest. $4. dollars each for 270 uf. 

  

I shoulda bought more! haha. 

  

At this late date, I really want to stay as true to original as possible. Those oem's have lasted for 40+- yrs, a tall order for any electrolytic. Many years ago attending the engineering program at NE State Tech, I was taught that electrolytics have a shelf life; ie., they will go bad new sitting on the shelf after enough time passes and the electrolyte dries out enough. The sealed 'wet' caps were an attempt at stabilizing and extending the useable life by keeping the electrolyte stable(from drying out). 

  

Seems that idea worked pretty good! 

  

Larry Odham 

  

Quad Tape Transfer 

www.QUADTAPEXFER.com 



  


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