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Hi all, i want to share a sad story about an Eumig R2000 from 1976 i have currently on the workbench.
about a month ago i found an advert on marktplaats (Dutch ebay) for this R2000 and looking at the picture i saw one in a bit of a crusty state but normally nothing i can't fix, i wanted to get it to fix up and then sell again. I do this regularly to make a bit of money to put back in the collection.
the guy wanted 600 euros for it because that is what they are advertised for on etsy, i told him that was very bold to ask for as a good example does about 80 euro's, cleaned and fixed up.
so i went bold back and bid him 10 euro, we did not agree on the price ofcourse and that was that. and then three weeks later he contacted me if i was interested in buying it for 25 euro's. I stood my ground and turned it down because he told me it needed work and had not been running a long time, i sticked with 10 euro. and he agreed, so i went to him and picked it up. The man and his house were very shabby and so was the projector.
so today i opened it up for the first time and oh my god, i have never seen one in such a bad condition. if i had known i wouldn't even have bought it anyway. he told me he always looked after it and played cartoons with it when he was a kid.
judging what i found, the thing has been in a very wet cellar or maybe even submersed. it was just stored very badly after a rough life, because all small parts that can get lost on an R2000 are broken or lost. everything is rusted stuck together.
so i can only do one thing and that is tear it apart, harvest as much parts as i can for the parts bin and bring the remains to the scrapyard.
It is what it is and not everyone shares the love and care for these machines offcourse but i can still get agitated to see this kind of neglect and then still try to sell it as if it where made of gold and the only one in existence.
and here are some pictures:
about a month ago i found an advert on marktplaats (Dutch ebay) for this R2000 and looking at the picture i saw one in a bit of a crusty state but normally nothing i can't fix, i wanted to get it to fix up and then sell again. I do this regularly to make a bit of money to put back in the collection.
the guy wanted 600 euros for it because that is what they are advertised for on etsy, i told him that was very bold to ask for as a good example does about 80 euro's, cleaned and fixed up.
so i went bold back and bid him 10 euro, we did not agree on the price ofcourse and that was that. and then three weeks later he contacted me if i was interested in buying it for 25 euro's. I stood my ground and turned it down because he told me it needed work and had not been running a long time, i sticked with 10 euro. and he agreed, so i went to him and picked it up. The man and his house were very shabby and so was the projector.
so today i opened it up for the first time and oh my god, i have never seen one in such a bad condition. if i had known i wouldn't even have bought it anyway. he told me he always looked after it and played cartoons with it when he was a kid.
judging what i found, the thing has been in a very wet cellar or maybe even submersed. it was just stored very badly after a rough life, because all small parts that can get lost on an R2000 are broken or lost. everything is rusted stuck together.
so i can only do one thing and that is tear it apart, harvest as much parts as i can for the parts bin and bring the remains to the scrapyard.
It is what it is and not everyone shares the love and care for these machines offcourse but i can still get agitated to see this kind of neglect and then still try to sell it as if it where made of gold and the only one in existence.
and here are some pictures:
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