Notes

Flatbed technicians

Spoke to my pal Stan who resides up in BC. Stan was generous enough to gift me a few back-up PCBs for my Rapid. I purchased my Rapid from Stan several years ago. As the original owner, he purchased the machine in the early 1980s for something in the neighborhood of $28,000. Several years ago Stan came to Portland to assist me in overhauling a Steenbeck 928 (now in use at Sampo Films). He is an honest and good-natured technician and I was sad to hear the news that work has slowed to the point of no longer being viable. I hate to think that KEM service people are no longer of much use to anyone but a few archives, or the remaining productions that continue to use Rapids or K-800s for syncing dailies.

June 01, 2007