Posts: 421
From: none of your business
Registered: Jun 2017
posted February 10, 2018 05:43 PM
Can't believe my luck.
I have a good friend, Joan (aged 83) who has already given me two projectors.
A Bauer T3 and recently the Zeiss Ikon
Now her daughter has just given me a mint Sankyo 501 dual 8 sound... Spare lamp, 400ft take up, film trimmer, original box... wow.... I went to her house, she had 5 projectors!
I have decided to give away my Eumig and the Bauer... I feel so lucky today. It works like a charm... I feel very lucky today. Watching my 1970's Navy super 8 with good sound. Might have to go to the bay and buy a couple of sound films now....
I have been told by 'he who must be obeyed' No More Projectors!
I also got this cute little cine viewer today, works well.
Posts: 506
From: Shrewsbury, Shropshire, UK
Registered: Mar 2016
posted February 10, 2018 06:52 PM
I wish I had friends like yours. I've seven projectors at the moment, having sold on three and scrapped one,but that "No more projectors" sounds familiar.
Posts: 1061
From: Burnsville, MN, USA
Registered: Dec 2009
posted February 10, 2018 11:46 PM
Nice projector, good friend! Having multiples is not so bad in the 8mm format. I collected projectors and had about 100 16mm projectors. Big and heavy. Wife was not happy. It took several years to sell them all off. I'm 70 years old and I did not want to croak and have her send them all to the trash!
[ February 12, 2018, 11:22 AM: Message edited by: Barry Fritz ]
Posts: 1236
From: Dunstable ,Bedfordshire.
Registered: Jan 2005
posted February 11, 2018 03:19 AM
Mike The 501 is a nice machine,they are easy to use and sound and picture is good and steady,nice gift well done,Mark
Posts: 421
From: none of your business
Registered: Jun 2017
posted February 12, 2018 04:23 AM
Really happy with the 501. Had a peek inside to make sure there are no bulging capacitors, plugged it in and ran a sound movie. Really very steady image and great sound....
I do want to get the Eumig and Bauer gone, but I can't bring myself to dump them. I have put a post in another part of the forum, offering them, but I don't think many people in uk are close enough to come get them..
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
posted February 12, 2018 10:26 AM
You're a lucky guy, Mike!
I get offered projectors all the time. Not only are they never usable ones, they are also never sound ones. Until I went to CineSea, I'd never met another civilian that owned a sound projector!
The first couple of times somebody brought me some semi-ancient ones it was kind of neat: they are nice to put out on display. If I put them all out, people would start to think I lived by myself, which might eventually become true!
So when some kind soul says they have a machine for me, I ask about it and usually wind up telling them I've caught my limit!
They mean well!
-------------------- All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...