M42 Equipment for Students

[Tiger Moses]

I am starting a photography group/club at the high school where I teach 
this semester.

Was wondering if anyone has m42 equipment they don't want to go through the 
Ebay hassle with
but want it to find a good home.  Doesn't have to be our beloved brand, 
maybe you got a Petri or Yashica or Chinon
in the back of some drawer.  Bodies or lenses.  Would love for each student 
to have a camera they can carry around.

I'm excited because that is how and when I fell into Pentax.  In 1982 
during my senior year of high school, I found an old "broke" spotmatic body 
(meter doesn't work and mirror would stick) and found a dented 50/1.4 that 
would screw into it.  I found that I COULD take pictures with it, nothing 
great, but I did my own B&W and wet lab stuff for yearbook and it was just 
too much fun.

I don't want to list all the equipment I gathered since then, but I have 
that same Spotmatic and two more I'll be loaning to some of my students, 
and if I could get 2 or three more systems for them - WOW! That would be great.

So if you have some M42 stuff you want to go to a good home....contact me!

Actually, and working camera equipment (not darkroom stuff) you want to 
find a home in some excited under-privileged teenagers hands...let me know 
and I'll tell you if I can figure out how to make good use of it!