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Topic: Is This Old Equipment Trash or Treasure?
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Randy Stankey
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From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 01-09-2003 04:59 PM
Just got back from looking at these projectors, seen below. They reside in the auditorium of a local high school that is undergoing rennovations. These projectors were installed when the school was originally built in approximately 1920 and have been here ever since.
They have probably been idle for at least 50 years and, as you can see they have suffered a lot of neglect and abuse. There are no leses. The slits, exciters and cells are gone. The motors are missing and there are a lot of things bent, busted or just plain missing.
My task is to determine if anything here is salvageable and, if so, what to do with the stuff.
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I can't imagine that they'd be good for anything except parts. Even so, finding a buyer would take time. (We don't have a lot of time here... A week or two at most.)
I just hate to advise that these fine old machines be dumpsterized, even IF they have seen better days.
I'm thinking of recommending that they be taken out and set on display in a lobby somewhere as a conversation piece. This assumes that the school wants to keep them at all.
What do y'all think?
PS: I don't have space in my basement for them, otherwise I'd take them myself!
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Stephen Furley
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002
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posted 01-10-2003 11:09 AM
What I find amasing is that you could still find a few places running this sort of stuff until quite recent times; some of it must have been over 60 years old when it was taken out of use. the old sound heads weren't too good, but the picture could be good as long as the screen wasn't too large. As late as the late '70s I saw machines still in use which had originally been hand cranked. The cinema still had all the maintenance records for them, they had been purchased secondhand, and, before they could be used, had to be modified to comply with the requirements of the Cinematograph act, this came into force on 1st January 1910, so goodness knows how old these machines must have been. At some later stage in their lives, this new fangled stuff like motors and soundheads had been fitted!
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