What to do with a Polaroid 8X10 processor?

[W K Longcor]

So Polaroid has announced the end of their instant film. Has anybody come up with a creative use for the 8X10 Polaroid Processing system? I no longer have a boat -- so I don't need an anchor.:eek:

[Walter Calahan]

Yeah, I've got a big box in the basement with a cherry 8x10 processor. My dream of dreams is someone licenses the technology from Polaroid to make some more.

Fairy tales may come true. HA!

[Ralph Barker]

A flower press? ;)

[captainslack]

I'd eBay it while there's still time to get a decent return on it.

[David A. Goldfarb]

545 holders make good paperweights, but 8x10" processors can be transformed into substantial doorstops.

I'm thinking about whether mine could be regeared so the top roller moves faster than the bottom to function as a calendaring press for albumen prints.

[D. Bryant]

Put it in an unmarked box and drop a bit of powdered sugar or corn starch or baking soda in with it. Tape it up and leave it in the lobby of your nearest Federal Building.

Be sure to do this in a clean room, no fingerprints, no hair fibers and no saliva or you will make a lot of new buddies in the FBI pretty fast.

Go for it Dan! We will send you post cards while you are in the federal pen.

Don Bryant

[Ralph Barker]

Once collected in one location, they could also be partially buried at an angle to make a Polaroid Farm. (They're too small to be a "ranch" ala the Cadillac Ranch.)

[Dave Wooten]

If they dont act on the technology-the license- does one have to acquire "rights" to produce? I thought in case of a patent one actually had to use it to keep it? If abandonded couldnt another company product the product?

[Ash]

David I really like your idea for using it as a press.

I've been meaning to set up for Bromoil printing, and you need a very strong press to make duplicates.

[W K Longcor]

Well, maybe I won't put my equipment on the junk pile yet. This possible use as a press seems interesting -- but, do you think the high speed __zzzziiiipppp!through the rollers would cause problems with the bromoil papers?

[cyrus]

Drop kick it?

[Greg Lockrey]

Drop kick it?

Ouch!:eek:

[Ted Stoddard]

Nahhh dont use as a door stop or drop kick it give it to me i want them all lol

[Ash]

W K... just change the speed by reducing the current through or adjusting any internal motors. Easiest way is to add a variable resistor.

[BarryS]

There's no way you're going to pull good bromoil prints on one of those processors. Normally, you'd use an etching press and those presses exert *a lot* of pressure. I say turn it into a pasta machine.

[Asher Kelman]

W K... just change the speed by reducing the current through or adjusting any internal motors. Easiest way is to add a variable resistor.

Will Thomson was jealous of my electric 8x10 processor so he put in a drill motor in his US Navy hardened hand cranked processor. It works using standard rechargeable drill batteries. One can I guess vary the speed or even reverse the motor to bring the paper to orgasms!

I have two boxes of color film that I'm saving for something great! I'm hearing rumblings of an alternate producer. Meanwhile B&W film is still available.

Asher

[Frank Petronio]

Maybe if you tinker there is hope...

http://processmediainc.com/press/mini_sites/sex_machines

Come up with a good one and who knows? Old 8x10 processors may appreciate.

[Greg Lockrey]

Maybe if you tinker there is hope...

http://processmediainc.com/press/mini_sites/sex_machines

Come up with a good one and who knows? Old 8x10 processors may appreciate.

OH, MY VIRGIN EYES!!!:eek: :eek: :eek:

[David A. Goldfarb]

Maybe if you tinker there is hope...

http://processmediainc.com/press/mini_sites/sex_machines

Come up with a good one and who knows? Old 8x10 processors may appreciate.

With an Afterword by no less than A. D. Coleman!