Thanks, Bill. What is LTL? You mention the Speed Graphic; this enlarger is accompanied by my father-in-laqw's Speed Graphic, which would be easier to ship, if not to sell.
Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 11:12 AM Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon., Oct. 19, 2020, 3:36 p.m. Daniel J. Matyola, <danmaty...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > In cleaning out my basement, I have a vintage film enlarger that I need > to > > dispose of. It is made by DeJur, belonged to my father-in-law, and is at > > least 60 years old, but still intact. > > I would prefer to see it go to someone who would use it, rather than to > the > > local landfill. Too heavy to be shipped economically. Any ideas on how > I > > might proceed? > > > > I had 3 colour enlargers and a cold light head enlarger that I tried to > sell a few years ago. Because of the size and awkwardness of them, they are > expensive to ship directly, as you have found, and fragile to ship LTL, but > if well packed should be OK. > I was able to sell one of the colour head units, ironically the cheap > Beseler C67, and ended up sending a Beseler 23C, a 45C and a Zone VI cold > light Beseler 4x5 to the dump. I didn't get any nibbles on them that I > could convert to a sale. > > I'm not sure how desirable an old DeJur enlarger is. They are cool looking, > but didn't have a great reputation. I had a 5x7 DeJur for a while when I > bought my first 4x5 camera, a Crown Graphic, when I was around 17. > It was a difficult enlarger to use. > > Do a little checking to see if you can find a trucking company that will > include it in an LTL shipment. That might bring shipping costs down quite a > bit, though delivery times can increase somewhat. > > > When I was selling brick, one time I had a couple of cubes sent from a > plant in North Dakota via LTL. When I got to work the next morning, there > was a low deck with a ginormous piece of road building equipment on it and > my cubes of brick looking like wheel chocks in front of the tires. The > shipping was about half of a full load price using the same company. > > Bill > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
