Actually 1/100th of advertised might be kind of high as well. There is a LOT of this equipment pretty much available for the asking right now.
The problem with a lot of this is that you can get the projectors for free, the lenses for very close to free, but then you find yourself spending a lot of money on transport, changing oil, replacing bearings, making sure the gate is in good shape, and probably replacing the lamphouse. You CAN run this off a modern rectifier, and spend a few hundred dollars for a VFD to drive the rectifier off single-phase power. The first time you have to change the lamp, though, you'll be writing a bigger check than you needed for everything else combined. You can put a smaller lamphouse on these, and there are some little baby Christie 800W xenon lamps that take single-phase power and are a great choice for a home screening room... but they are not cheap and there is a huge demand for them on the surplus market. The larger lamphouses are cheap, but they are expensive to set up and maintain. Don't forget getting a rewind bench, split reels, aperture plates, and all the other necessary accessories. Most of those aren't expensive either, but may take some rounding up. --scott _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
