Second hand drum dryer -- going rate?

[cinefane]

I have an RRB print dryer -- 12" belt type with glazing drum. It's all in working order but I prefer to dry my prints by other means. Since I need the space and money, I've decided it might be best to sell it on.

I picked the dryer up for a bargain so I've not idea of its monetary value. Does anyone know what these things go for nowadays?

 

[ann]

zero hard to give away, at least in my experience.

 

[Ian Grant]

Have to agree, I had two and after 3 or 4 years trying to sell or give them away they had to be scrapped.

Try posting here in the classifieds and be open to offers, you might be lucky.

Ian

 

[bill h]

I've pretty much abandoned using mine for ferrotyping (which I did all the time in the days of single-weight Polymax Fine Art) and use mine now to flatten air dried prints face down on the belt. Works beautifully.

-bill

 

[edtbjon]

Yes, whereever I see them they are either given away or have zero bids on them. I recon most of them ends up on the scrapheap. They started to go out of fashion by the time RC paper becamer popular, i.e. a couple of photographic generations ago.
As with many other beautiful pieces of machinery, they've dropped to no value at all these days.

//Björn

 

[Mike Crawford]

I did try to sell a 20" Kodak model a few years ago, then tried to give it away, which also had no takers. Later we had a flood in our basement darkroom and most of the water and plaster came down onto the glazer! I'm afraid it ended up in a skip when we moved out. Don't know if you are in the UK / South East but if so maybe see if Mr Cad in Croydon will take yours?
http://www.mrcad.co.uk/shop/home.php

 

[ann]

someone has just given the school a lot of beautiful darkroom equipment, including a very large besler dryer. Now trying to figure out what to do with the dryer. It looks new, and it would be a shame to put it out on the curb.