For sale is a Gundlach-manufactured Turner-Reich triple-convertible 8x10 lens with combinations 12" f/7, 19.7" f/12.5 and 25"f/16 in a Betax 4 shutter. This lens is too heavy for my aging back and is not for the faint of heart or weak of front standard as it weights a shade over 2-1/4 pounds (1046 grams for the metrically inclined) including the flange, cap, and filter rings.
There's mostly good news and a little bad news about this particular example. The good news is that the glass is in generally very good condition and there is no edge separation. I had it professionally recemented last year by Jason Lane. Frank Marshman CLA'd the shutter a few years ago and it still runs smoothly and seems accurate enough at all settings. Included is a mounting flange, Series VII adapter/retaining rings on both the front and rear cells, and what appears to be the original velvet-lined front cap. This is a "press" type shutter that requires no separate cocking action.
You've had the good, now on to the bad. Aside from the obvious signs of age on the barrels, shutter, and cap, there are two small edge chips in the glass, one in the front cell and one in the rear, that probably (my guess) occurred during the separation process prior to recementing. Each chip is maybe 1/8" long and you can see them at about the 4 o'clock position in the photos. They are small potatoes compared to the completely circumferential edge separation that existed before, but if they bother you excessively you could fill them in with black model paint.
I've got $430 into this lens between my initial purchase, the recementing, and the CLA, and would love to recover most of my expenses, so I'm asking $400. I will cover PayPal fees and US shipping costs. Non-US buyers please contact me and we'll figure it out, but keep in mind that insured international shipping is not a bargain, and depending where you live you may end up paying import duties and/or VAT. PayPal is fine, a check drawn on a US bank is finer, and a US Postal Money Order is finest.
There's mostly good news and a little bad news about this particular example. The good news is that the glass is in generally very good condition and there is no edge separation. I had it professionally recemented last year by Jason Lane. Frank Marshman CLA'd the shutter a few years ago and it still runs smoothly and seems accurate enough at all settings. Included is a mounting flange, Series VII adapter/retaining rings on both the front and rear cells, and what appears to be the original velvet-lined front cap. This is a "press" type shutter that requires no separate cocking action.
You've had the good, now on to the bad. Aside from the obvious signs of age on the barrels, shutter, and cap, there are two small edge chips in the glass, one in the front cell and one in the rear, that probably (my guess) occurred during the separation process prior to recementing. Each chip is maybe 1/8" long and you can see them at about the 4 o'clock position in the photos. They are small potatoes compared to the completely circumferential edge separation that existed before, but if they bother you excessively you could fill them in with black model paint.
I've got $430 into this lens between my initial purchase, the recementing, and the CLA, and would love to recover most of my expenses, so I'm asking $400. I will cover PayPal fees and US shipping costs. Non-US buyers please contact me and we'll figure it out, but keep in mind that insured international shipping is not a bargain, and depending where you live you may end up paying import duties and/or VAT. PayPal is fine, a check drawn on a US bank is finer, and a US Postal Money Order is finest.
