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<div>The complete camera head on a TK-41 weighs about 450 pounds. Removing the VF reduces that weight by about 150#. Many years ago, when I worked at WGN I was one of several engineers tasked with getting the last remaining TK-41 into a truck to be delivered to the museum of broadcasting in Chicago. It was a similar problem. We stood around looking at the challenge until the stage hands noticed and got interested and got the camera onto the truck and off at the other end. Find a stage hand, they do that kind of thing for a living. :-). </div>
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<div>In ordinary operations, WGN had a chain hoist in the back area of the station for lifting the cameras onto pedestals, etc. For remotes (They had a TK-41 equipped remote truck at one time) they had a hoist on the truck and custom made wheeled carts for moving the cameras around. It was serious challenge from the physical stand point to work with those cameras. They had hoists at Chicago Stadium and other locations. They had designed and built a number of tools, lifts, and so forth to deal with the weight. Just handling the cable for these cameras was a massive task; when I left there were still several hundred feet of it coiled up on top of various places at Wrigley Field, left there by WGN and NBC, because no one wanted to deal with schlepping it out f there. WGN never had TK-42/3s. By the time the TK-44s came along, they seemed almost portable! </div>
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<div>In a message dated 12/14/2011 6:34:10 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, <A href="mailto:david@dcvideo.com">david@dcvideo.com</A> writes:</div>
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<div>That ad was given to me years ago by a long time client. I don't know exactly where it came from. I will try to get a better copy.</div>
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<div>On Dec 14, 2011, at 8:53 AM, <A title=mailto:COURYHOUSE@aol.com href="mailto:COURYHOUSE@aol.com">COURYHOUSE@aol.com</A> wrote:</div>
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<div>Dave - was this an ad or the cover page for an article or!?!?</div>
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<div>where source? where can I find more...</div>
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<div>On getting the 41;'s to the buss top any report as to HOW they did that? yea the finder comes off but..... the mass of the bottom park is killer!</div>
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