What does the man who knows nothing about electronics do when he buys a twenty year old machine? First he dreams that it is a rare find, worth thousands to a collector, or hundreds to someone who needs parts. After a few days and many forays onto ebay, he discovers that there is one or two offered for sale, but that no one is really using such an outdated machine anymore. So, having acquired it at scrap iron prices, he decides to strip it and get a few bucks, but the main reason is it takes up too much space, weighs nearly 600 pounds, and even if someone did buy it, I have no idea of how to ship it. So, partially disassembled it, and discovered I still couldn't lift it into the pickup truck, even by tilting and sliding it. Well, I am old enough to know better, but stubborn enough to not do better. I put one of the dented large door panelson the tailgate of the truck, tilted the heavy heavy machine, and then positioned myself under the machine in such a position that when I got it lifted mid thigh high, If I let it go, bones would break. I knew I could lift it that high, and sure enough, knowing I couldn't get out of the way, I had to exert enough to shove it on the truck. But the goodies were what I took off before committing stupidity. There was about twenty pounds of communication cable wiring, big red connectors with huge gold plated pins, a large transformer wound with about 8 pounds of square (1/8 3/16?) copper wire, and 18 circuit boards. Three or four were heavy power supply (transformer 3 inches square) but some of the others made me smile. The point of this is, on that particular Kodak machine, almost all the components were mounted on a backing plate held in place with only a couple screws. After contorting like a 250 pound jelly filled donut, I finally got smart enough to take out the retainer screws, remove the units., and remove the goodies while standing comfortably. I had expected to only recover five or maybe six boards, but surprise, everytime I removed something, another board was revealed.
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