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Janice Glesser
Film Goddess

Posts: 3468
From: Sunnyvale, CA USA
Registered: Sep 2011

posted May 06, 2017 09:13 PM

Sadly...The next step from here is the landfill [Frown]

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Janice

"I'm having a very good day!"
Richard Dreyfuss - Let It Ride (1989).

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Andrew Woodcock
Film God

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From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012

posted May 06, 2017 09:15 PM

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"C'mon Baggy..Get with the beat"

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Douglas Meltzer
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From: New York, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted May 06, 2017 10:44 PM

That's so sad. Kind of like the Island of Misfit Projectors....

Doug

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Graham Ritchie
Film God

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From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006

posted May 07, 2017 12:38 AM

Janice is there anything worth keeping like the transformer, screws, lamp holder?, etc [Smile]

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Janice Glesser
Film Goddess

Posts: 3468
From: Sunnyvale, CA USA
Registered: Sep 2011

posted May 07, 2017 03:20 AM

Graham ... Just last week I scrounged the handle of the junker Sankyo, so the projectors are not ready for the landfill just yet. It's just that I moved all the non-working projectors out to the garage today. I needed room in my closets because one of my sons is temporarily moving back home tomorrow. The projectors will remain in the "Land of Parts Only" for a time. It's kind of a way station [Smile]

I will eventually do a final dismantling for motors, transformers, screws, springs, etc. It's just seeing them all together now on the shelf got me to thinking this is the beginning of the end....a little sad.

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Janice

"I'm having a very good day!"
Richard Dreyfuss - Let It Ride (1989).

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Maurice Leakey
Film God

Posts: 5895
From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted May 07, 2017 09:53 AM

Janice
Why landfill?
Do you not have recycling centres in the U.S.?

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Janice Glesser
Film Goddess

Posts: 3468
From: Sunnyvale, CA USA
Registered: Sep 2011

posted May 07, 2017 12:03 PM

Of course Maurice... recycling is the procedure here in the Silicon Valley. Perhaps I was being a little overly dramatic. I was just using the term landfill generically. The process of recycling doesn't make me feel any better. No matter what the next destination is for these vintage machines their original purpose has been terminated.

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Janice

"I'm having a very good day!"
Richard Dreyfuss - Let It Ride (1989).

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Tom Spielman
Master Film Handler

Posts: 339
From: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Registered: Apr 2016

posted May 07, 2017 02:03 PM

There was a camera I was hoping to resurrect but it would have required some parts that were no longer being made. So I got another parts camera of the same model and ended up with one very good working one.

The remains of the other I listed as being free on craigslist and someone said they wanted it. When they came buy I asked what they were going to do with it. I had hoped he was going to fix it but he said it was just going to go into his parts bin. After a longer conversation I got the impression that he was much more interested in acquiring parts than actually fixing stuff. I wished I hadn't asked.

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