Looking for old slide projector
Jul 27, 2020 15:41:30 #
I have lots of old family photos in slides in Airequipt carousels. I don't have the projector for them. (I also have even more slides in Airequipt rectangular magazines and I do have that projector, though it's not working at the moment, but that's another story). I have searched and searched on line for a projector that will easily display the ones in the circular magazines, but can't find one. It doesn't look as though these magazines will work with Kodak projectors. There are plenty of those out there. If anyone has a projector they'd like to get rid of, I'd be interested. If anyone has suggestions about how to view these slides without having to pull all 500+ of them out of the magazines, I'd love to hear those! Thanks in advance.
Jul 27, 2020 15:49:51 #
Not certain, but I think a Sawyer projector might be the ticket. If so, there are plenty of affordable ones around. Local would be the way to go since shipping would be pricey. Don't take my recollection as fact! ;-)
Jul 27, 2020 16:04:45 #
dincyb wrote:
I have lots of old family photos in slides in Aire... (show quote)
Ebay has loads of Airequipt projectors for sale and reasonable shipping
Jul 27, 2020 16:09:56 #
Jul 27, 2020 16:11:13 #
I've looked on eBay and can't find a carousel one there. There are plenty of the type that I already have that's for viewing the box-shaped magazines. Maybe I'm missing something, though. I'll recheck. Thanks for your response.
Jul 27, 2020 17:19:31 #
FYI - The Sawyer, Nikon and some others are designed to position the circular slide tray like a Ferris wheel rather than Merry go round / Carousel like the Kodak. I don't recall the Airequipt, but it could be if that is what you have, that it works the same. Teeth on the circular tray engage the transport gear.
Jul 27, 2020 18:00:18 #
My recollection is that the projector my aunt had (she's the one from whom these came) worked like the Kodak, but it's been many years since I've seen the thing. This Airequipt magazine has a row of teeth about an inch up from the bottom rather than around the bottom. I need to find a good photo of one of the other brands to see if I can zoom in and look at the mechanism to see if there's any hope it might work.
Jul 27, 2020 18:06:27 #
dincyb wrote:
My recollection is that the projector my aunt had (she's the one from whom these came) worked like the Kodak, but it's been many years since I've seen the thing. This Airequipt magazine has a row of teeth about an inch up from the bottom rather than around the bottom. I need to find a good photo of one of the other brands to see if I can zoom in and look at the mechanism to see if there's any hope it might work.
I'd have to dig a bit - if someone doesn't reply by morning, I'll go down and get my projector and a tray and attach a few snaps of each, plus a tray positioned.
Jul 27, 2020 18:11:47 #
Jul 28, 2020 07:17:50 #
I do have a sawyer projector in working order. I've recently sorted/converted to digital thousands of my father's chromes and am interested in selling the projector and the empty carousel (cheaply to a good home)!
Jul 28, 2020 13:43:22 #
From research and info from others in this form, it appears that the Sawyer isn't going to work with these strange magazines. Thanks for the offer, though!
Jul 29, 2020 09:11:32 #
dincyb wrote:
I have lots of old family photos in slides in Aire... (show quote)
I own an Airequipt Slide Projector with both the rectangular and the carousel trays. Unfortunately all are in storage back in Ohio and even though it's been 30 years or so since I've used it, I seem to recall that that projector will use both type of trays.
Jul 29, 2020 11:02:09 #
mikecanant
Loc: Texas
I have a Sawyer projector and many round trays, they do not fit the Airequipt projector, the round trays are different.
Jul 29, 2020 14:58:41 #
dincyb wrote:
I have lots of old family photos in slides in Aire... (show quote)
Hi:
I have two Kodak slide projectors and would like to sell one for $50 plus shipping from Santa Clara, California. If you are interested, send me a private email.
Cameraman
Jul 29, 2020 15:38:33 #
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