Headless LF Enlargers Rise UP!.....................LED

[Tin Can]

OK, collectors collect as I have said many times

I started very young. maybe age 3

Over the last 7 decades my collections have varied

I also collected very diverse friends, so diverse a party at my first house 1981 kinda flopped, as many actively hated each other

My first wife was upset I was giving away too much booze...

I lost 2 wives I collected

Solo since 1996

I have 5, 35mm enlargers

2, medium format

4, 4X5

2, 5x7

4, 10X10

I have 6 setup and usable in my DR

4, 35mm are kitchen decoration with my 3 Tube Radio collection

I have 8 bicycles, 1 adult tricycle and a wheelchair

NO CAR! YAY!

[Tin Can]

I forgot

I have given away 8 enlargers, including an 8X10

All those were not used by recipients

I regret the one 4X5 I gave to a member, wasted

[Michael R]

Why do you want all of those enlargers though? I mean, four 10x10 enlargers?

[Tin Can]

Do I really need a reason?

Nobody asks why people have 4 cars

At that time, 2011 people were throwing them out as garbage

I took them to save them a generation or 2

Most were free as they were going to the dump

The FOTAR cost me $250, I made money selling that one 5 years ago and gave the guy a huge NOS Print Dryer, I also got for free

I broke even on my 10' SS Arkay sink and gave a smaller one away

I now use my 7 ft Arkay with 2 laundry tubs

Is the inquisition over?

Let he who has no sin cast the first stone, said somebody...

Why do you want all of those enlargers though? I mean, four 10x10 enlargers?

[Michael R]

Yeesh it was a question, not a stoning lol.

Do I really need a reason?

Nobody asks why people have 4 cars

At that time, 2011 people were throwing them out as garbage

I took them to save them a generation or 2

Most were free as they were going to the dump

The FOTAR cost me $250, I made money selling that one 5 years ago and gave the guy a huge NOS Print Dryer, I also got for free

I broke even on my 10' SS Arkay sink and gave a smaller one away

I now use my 7 ft Arkay with 2 laundry tubs

Is the inquisition over?

Let he who has no sin cast the first stone, said somebody...

[Tin Can]

I have been 'stoned' here before

Yeesh it was a question, not a stoning lol.

[Michael R]

Fair point.

I have been 'stoned' here before

[John Layton]

Gee...I used to collect potato ricers. Probably had fifty at one point! Just don't ask me why...(childhood-related nostalgia actually).

I've also been stoned here before - mostly after 5pm and, these days, mostly with a bit of bourbon (neat...with no rocks, thrown or otherwise!)

Actually, there is tremendous virtue in hoarding enlargers...in that this helps them to avoid the scrap heap. We should all be doing this!

If I were wealthy I'd keep rescuing and rebuilding old Porsche 944's - wonderful, practical, versatile cars terribly underrated as most of them have been egregiously neglected. Sad.

[ic-racer]

I have 3 headless 10X10

4X5

https://silvergrainclassics.com/en/2...r-second-hand/

As an enlarger fanatic myself, I follow Tin Can's threads, but I thought Tin Can had already figured out a good LED source with a LED panel. Is that not working out?

[Tin Can]

I am using Aristo 1212 right now

I have only one 10X10 setup

As an enlarger fanatic myself, I follow Tin Can's threads, but I thought Tin Can had already figured out a good LED source with a LED panel. Is that not working out?