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Posted by Mike Spice (Member # 5957) on 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.

Posted by Will Trenfield (Member # 5321) on 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.

Posted by Barry Fritz (Member # 1865) on 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! [Smile]

[ February 12, 2018, 11:22 AM: Message edited by: Barry Fritz ]

Posted by Mark Mander (Member # 340) on 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

Posted by Mike Spice (Member # 5957) on 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..

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on 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!

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