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**Curt Palme** · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2016 11:18 pm Post subject: They`re all dead, Jim!

18 Barco 708 projectors. All with worn tubes, all I did was pull the quads and splitters. I now have REALLY good stock of quads and splitters again. Very Happy

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

Holy trash pile, Batman!

It's a shame to see so many once-expensive projectors at the end of their useful life.

I take it they all have HD-8B lenses?

I don't need any of those, but I am looking for a scrapper HD10 lens to disassemble for experimentation and learning.

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2016 11:31 pm Post subject:

HD145s, clear. The problem with these sets is that they were out of race car simulators, and have text burn on all tubes. I saved one 708 that was mint, and I've got about 3 others here still that I can sell, along with 2-3 sets of tubes. These also were Visions, which won't scan past 1080i, and I have at least 10+ sets of each board, which I know I'll never use. Off to the recycler they go on the weekend.

redfox001 · Joined: 16 Mar 2009 Posts: 2257 Location: The Netherlands

Is it because these where a recent build that the quads are good for the cine 9? Or do you simple use the whole chain eht quad and splitter in a cine 9?

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 3:17 pm Post subject:

No, all the recent build quads and splitters are junk. I've had almost 100% failure of the 909/Cine 9 quadruplers, so I put in the older style quads, which work fine.

redfox001 · Joined: 16 Mar 2009 Posts: 2257 Location: The Netherlands

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 4:43 pm Post subject:

They work fine with the newer ones, but the new splitters suffer from the same problems as the new quads.

redfox001 · Joined: 16 Mar 2009 Posts: 2257 Location: The Netherlands

Hail to the experimenter. I amgoing to grab that 801 for the quad.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 8:38 pm Post subject:

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 8:54 pm Post subject:

Guessing $60=70 CDN?

CIR Engineering · Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2016 3:49 pm Post subject:

Man Curt, you should hire a guy to pull all the metal out of those and take it to a scrapper. I bet you have $1500 there counting the copper from the coils. Funny pic though Wink

craigr

redfox001 · Joined: 16 Mar 2009 Posts: 2257 Location: The Netherlands

I heard a story about a guy buying hundreds of meters of coper wire and burning all the rubber and than selling the copper. He bought the copper wire from the army and it turned out there was a whole truck buried underneath and an old moto guzzi Very Happy

I almost did not believe it but it turned out to be true.

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2016 4:42 pm Post subject:

CIR Engineering · Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2016 4:59 pm Post subject:

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

it's not $1500., I promise you it's not that much.

First of all it's "mixed metal. there's Steel plates, AL extrusion with steel female threadserts, Maybe AL bar stock (used in MArquee's), Plastic, a whole bunch of screws, glass, Copper wound over Ferrite cores, etc. All of it is priced differently even after it's all separated.

It's pennies on the pounds in it's current state. If you spend an entire weekend stripping it all down and sorting it, then the value goes up but you would all be shocked at what the eventual " dollars per hour" payoff would be. I doubt it would even equal minimum wage.

I had my boys stripe down a bunch of gutted marquee chassis, gave them each a Phillips head screwdriver and said go for it. Had a pretty large box of AL plates and such, another box of deflection coils, another with circuit boards they got like 37 bucks for it all.

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

If that pile is still there, how about stripping out a few of the K-D focus yokes for me? Even if they're not the exact models I can use, I have found that they have individual parts that can still be useful. Coil forms, ring magnets, maybe the cable harnesses....

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2016 1:38 am Post subject:

They all got picked up about an hour ago, sorry!