Re: 15" F/11 Red Dot Artar ?

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> "Ken Hart" <kwhart1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Just out of morbid curiosity, roughly how much does one 
>> of these beasties weigh? Does it come with a floor stand 
>> as a standard configuration (I'm envisioning a big drill 
>> press, as I'm not familiar with a milling machine.)?
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> The largest was built for military aerial photo printing 
> and it is close to 1,500 pounds, 12' tall. The other 
> 10x10" enlargers were about 800 pounds. Mine is the later. 
> Gosh, maybe I should upgrade.
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>> As for it not fitting in your darkroom, when I built my 
>> current darkrooms, I failed to measure countertop to 
>> ceiling for my D2V. When it came down to moving in, I 
>> found I couldn't extend it all the way up. I boted it to 
>> the countertop (giving an extra inch or so by eliminating 
>> the baseboard), and cut a hole in the ceiling so the 
>> lamphouse would go up between two rafters.
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> :) You sure aren't the first to go there! (Now, how would 
> I know that?)
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> Richard K! About your stuff in storage: I just checked 
> Craig Camera http://www.craigcamera.com/
and they have a 
> Saltzman catalog for $75.
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    John Craig is a very reliable dealer in photographic 
instruction books and other stuff. I may even have gotten my 
catalogue from him when he was still making the rounds of 
local photo sales but its been so long I have no memory of 
it. I also don't remember what I paid for it, probably not 
more than $20.
    The other big enlarger is the Elwood. They sold a 
modified version of their 8x10 auto-focus enlarger mounted 
on a stand with a crank on the side to run it up and down. A 
perfectly useable  enlarger but very crude compared to the 
Saltzman.
    Again, if you find either a Saltzman or Elwood without a 
lamphouse you can get a cold light head from Arista. Not 
cheap but the originals are very hard to find.


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Richard Knoppow
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