Thank you all for the quick response. I have been paying $50 a month for
storage. I keep thinking I would get a chance to assemble it and use it but
no luck. As it is sort of a live dinosaur from a past era, I just can't see
parting it out on Ebay.
When I bought it from the original owner, they commented that it was either
the largest or second largest copy camera in Orange County, CA. when they
purchased it. It took me and the owners over 12 hours to dismantel and put
it in my 14 foot bread truck for the trip to TX. It was built in the 1970's
out of heavy steel and aluminum. It probably weighs 700# to 1200#. When
assembled it is 17' long, 6' tall, and 4 1/2' wide. I don't think it would
ship very well. It needs someone with a 16' enclosed trailer and a couple of
strong backs to load it.
It will need a few cans of paint to look new, but as of when I bought it,
everything worked, the switches, timers, lites, shutter, rise, fall, shift,
etc. worked, bellows looked good with a couple af extra wrinkles (but no
worn corners, tears or patches; rear glass focusing panel, stage glass look
good; etc there's even a toolbox with a few spare parts.
The base format is 30"x40". The copy stand is front lit by 4 halogen lights
and back lit with 7 three foot florescent lights. The vacuum plate is
42"x32" and made of 1/2" or 3/4" plate aluminum (and yes, you get a vaccuum
to power it), there are 2-3 boxes of 20x24 lith film, and two boxes of
smaller lith film. the lens turret has three positions (360mm, 600mm,
890mm), Packard shutter is 7" sq. with a 3 1/2 opening, the largest items
are 15'8" long.
Who ever can get here with a 16' trailer and a couple of strong backs can
have it.
EJ Schwarz
ejschwarzjr@hotmail.com
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