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Spanky Ham · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5643 Location: Comedy Central

What model pj is this?

Mark_A_W · Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 5:38 am Post subject:

Umm..a Marquee 8500?

What am I missing? Is there some trick?

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

Mark it's an 8110 with missing power supply's.

Mark_A_W · Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 6:36 am Post subject:

Bah

Close enough, I've never seen a Marquee in person.

What's the difference? Is the 8500 an LC model?

1031 · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 657 Location: Finland

Mark_A_W · Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 9:35 am Post subject:

Ok, that's close to what I thought.

Dragan, how can you pick the difference between an 8110 and 8500 from that picture?

Elaine Benes · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1416

Spanky Ham · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5643 Location: Comedy Central

Everyone was wrong, it is a

Elaine Benes · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1416

Despite what the back piece of metal says, I would be very surprised if its ACTUALLY a 9501LC.

Check the part number from the piece of paper on the top lens retention piece at http://www.etechvideo.com/techtip4.htm

Mr. Green · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 1:35 am Post subject:

What year? Mine's a Nov 97.

If it is a 9501lc, is it yours? Details?!!!

Mark_A_W · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 2:09 am Post subject:

Ok, it looks air coupled to me.

Where's the C element?

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

I have a back trim piece that says 9000 but I didn't know it could magically transform the Tubes and optics to LC............... oh wait it can't. Laughing

Mr. Green · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 5:35 am Post subject:

I was going to say the lens housings were way different. They don't have that "submarine portal" effect with liquid on the other side. I'm curious as to what you have there. The lenses are way different too. Hopefully you can get a decent running projector out of it.

bbfarmht · Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 3:52 pm Post subject:

~~Look closer to the lenses that are on the projector. They look like they are LC lenses. The green is behind the the blue AC mount.~~ It definitely look like a Frankenstein projector.

NM I just enlarged the photos and those are definitely Ac lenses.

Spanky Ham · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5643 Location: Comedy Central

I didn't mean to leave you guys (and gals) hanging. I wrote half a reply before I was summoned to see Angels and Demons friday night. Smile

This was a pj that was advertised as a 9501 with a problem. When I got to the place to look at it, I was in a rush, but I figured I would give a cursory look and buy it. The owners were a family and I was dealing mostly with the son. As soon as I saw HD-8 and the 1995 sticker on the top of the crossmember, I knew I was in trouble. I took off one lens just to see how bad the wear was. Having spoken to the guy several times, I just didn't think he was trying to scam me. He encouraged me to come and look it over before I bought it. When I had the lens off, he didn't know the difference between AC and LC. He really didn't know what he had or he is a better actor than Ian McKellan. I debated whether to tell the guy that he owned an 8" pj that wasn't worth as much as he thought it might be.
I finally went ahead and told him. He was shocked. He told me that they had bought this pj off a guy and their new digital pj from the same person. Here is where it gets even more interesting. They knew enough five years ago to know that the 9501 was top of the heap. According to the owner they paid around $10k for this pj. I don't remember the pricing that well back then, but that sounds about right for a 9" with an 8" about half that price. The owner said the seller offered to give them $800 for the pj. I told them that even though they had been scammed that this was a great price for a non working 8" AC and not to say anything about it not being a 9501. The owner being slightly pissed didn't take my advice and confronted the seller. The seller gave an excuse that it took him time to find a pj for him. I actually gave the seller the benefit of the doubt and figured he may not have known it wasn't a 9501. He then said that the pj had some problems, so he converted it. I had to laugh at that one. Maybe you Marquee guys can fill me in, but I could only come up with the bellows as being an issue that would not be a common problem between models. Fortunately, the owner still owed the seller some money, so when it was all said and done they got back $1300 for the pj.
As for the seller, I won't out him. He is a member at AVS, but doesn't post a lot. I have met him and wasn't aware that he did installs and sales. He seems like a nice guy and maybe this was just a one time incident. Even if it was a one time incident, I think this takes the cake for biggest scam that I have heard of in the CRT hobby.

Elaine Benes · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1416

Out the thief. If he stole from one person, he'll steal from others, guaranteed.

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

RaWsHaRk · Joined: 01 May 2009 Posts: 131 Location: Finland

jkruger · Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 2435 Location: Carlsbad, CA

The title of this thread should be changed to "Identify the Thief"

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 6:04 pm Post subject:

Spill it. We wanna know, and yes, no one else should be victim of a scammer. If a seller doesn't know what they have, then they should either do the research, or simply post that they don't know much about the unit.