Doomsday Sale on Coherent Sabres!

[planters]

This thread does confuse me. These lasers if to spec and in good condition are in fact worth AT LEAST 3K. The problem as I see it is not their price it is their bulk and much more so their power requirements. I would be interested if the 3P was already here. Unless you live at a stadium or near a dam then they will not be useful for projection. However, what about the scientific community? I can't imagine that everything has gone solid state. There must be labs out there where a significant maintenance bill on a much smaller/older ion would equal the price for these. Are they in CA? Maybe start with the most convenient Univ. and labs to save shipping. For what its worth I'll ask at MIT next week.

[dsli_jon]

Hey Sire -

This thread does confuse me. These lasers if to spec and in good condition are in fact worth AT LEAST 3K.

Indeed, ie: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Coherent-Inn...-/380547870487 ...I rest my case.. Granted, that's a 'specialized' UV-model, but.. it's also 7x the asking-price of these Ar/Kr's.. and, one recently sold for just-about 2x the price of these-pups.. and even the 'specialty-nature' of UV does-not really warrant these being so-cheap.. they're just being sold stupidly-cheap..

Again, not trying to 'bash the PL-community over the head' with these things, but, since the owners would be just-as happy to scrap these for the tubes / optics / pb's, etc, since, a) much-easier to store, etc, b) they'll get at *least* the amount-being asked, here, from just those 'core' parts, even if it 'takes longer'.. The 'op', here, is for some who might have 'always dreamed' of owning a set of amazing-ions like these, at 'reachable' pricing.. Yes, this is a 'hobbiest-community', etc, and that's why they're not being listed for $10-12K+ each, like they should-be...

..and, c) really, the 'hope' is to see these beauties go to a good home, where they will 'live-on' / be-operated / make spellbinding-aerials again!!.. Not sitting in somebody's living room / laser-altar, just so they can be adored and 'dry-humped' once and awhile.. Want to see these NOT become parts-systems / 'go in a box' / in some dark-room, to just sadly-wait until some install, somewhere in Thailandia or Mogadishu, etc, etc makes a call and they get sent out..

The problem as I see it is not their price it is their bulk and much more so their power requirements. ...unless you live at a stadium or near a dam then they will not be useful for projection.

Uh, well, it's not as hard as many might think to run these - Yes, you need 3Ø, Yes, it must be (or get x-former-boosted-to) 480, but we did most of the testing on 100A of 208, just fine.. Granted, I couldn't keep the initially-used 60A breaker on for very-long, at 65A of tube-current, (x 1.5 thru the boost..) but.. it *is possible* to 'turn these down'... People certainly don't need to run-them full bore, to get 'usefulness' out of them, and the water-requirements are really-low, due to the efficiency of the 'HEx', in the mix..

However, what about the scientific community? ...Maybe start with the most convenient Univ. and labs... For what its worth I'll ask at MIT next week.

Thanks, and I'll be more than happy to ask-for / pay-out a 'commission' for such a sale.. Only problem with pitching to the 'sci / edu'-community, is *time*.. I cannot afford more overhead to pay for a 6-mo lease for the space for these, (and neither does the owner want-to..) whilst some University goes thru all the flaming-hoops and requisitions and signature-verifications and grants and Acts of Congress, etc, etc, just to consider these.. That's whom we'll first turn-to, if these do-go to 'parts', cause then, yes, we / the owners can-store them till whenever, etc..

Anyhoo, they're... gonners..

ciao
j

[planters]

Not sitting in somebody's living room / laser-altar,

Its not a laser alter its a lab/shop.

so they can be adored and 'dry-humped' once and awhile.

Excuse me, but who elected you the morality judge? If someone makes a lifestyle choice...well then get used to it! You're from CA for goodness sakes. And you can't prove anything anyway and even if you could it doesn't mean its happened more than once...recently.

[dsli_jon]

Its not a laser alter its a lab/shop.

Heh, yes, that's the one I tell the Wife, too.. ..and, if *You* were the one getting these pups, yes - *You* definitely-qualify to call it a 'lab'...

...If someone makes a lifestyle choice...

Oh, to be sure! In fact, to cite a classic example, simply 'sub-out' "Ion laser" for "car" or "vehicle" in each-place in this article.. Oh, and "Coherent Sabre" for "Volkswagen Beetle", and the one use of "helicopter"...mm, let's sub-in: "SP 171, with the cover-off".. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...1000-cars.html

..wonder if the guy has a brood of Matchbox 'children'?

...Nah'dey gawn..
j

[dsli_jon]

SOLD! ....for parts..

..Sad to see them go off to 'partslandia', but...'dey gawn.. Doubt they'll ever come-along again as 'cherubic' as these were, but.. I'm sure decent ones will surface from time to time...
Had just-hoped to see someone here / 'in the biz' give them a 'proper lurving' till retirement.. heck, they were still friggin babies, hrs-wise.. Oh well..

I can't even imagine what 33.4 LOOKS like in person...

..believe-me, it's seriously-badass.. IN MEMORIAM...




Thanks to those that-enquired..
j

[-=Jim=-]

Very sad indeed.... I spent about 2 hours last weekend looking at my inventory trying to find something I could sell quick to pick these up.

[Bradfo69]

Excuse the expression but, shit...

I really was giving the one argon consideration. Stupid I know and, it's really probably for the best.

Parts... grr...

I'd better be consoled in about a month!

[planters]

Good to hear that you moved them with out any more delays. Lasers are fun, but ya don't need any more headaches.

[gashead]

Good to hear that you moved them with out any more delays. Lasers are fun, but ya don't need any more headaches.

I second that - they were fairly big ladies.. Fair bit of room required to store them.

I'm upset I didn't have the funds, time, space and utility to get hold of these.. thems they breaks huh.. I already have one small (ish) ar/kr .. I probably don't need to add to that

Please, chaps.. no tears ok.

[dsli_jon]

..Please, chaps.. no tears ok..

Well, if you don't, I will.. So, agree to a 'minimum-level financial-recoup' offer on these all, just to get this off the decks / out of my hair, etc.. and don't it just figure - HOURS from inking the 'minimum-deal' on this - to the parts-harvester, no-less - I get a vm from the first ones to contact me off the eBay listings - who were, sadly, just a '1/2-day too-slow' on this - with an offer of *six-thousand-dollars more* than the guy we just-inked with...(..and $4K of that would have gone straight to DSLI's efforts, since the 'owners-min' would have been well-satisfied..)...



..but, because I was 'raised in the old school' - as painful as it was to turn that down - I had-to stick to my word / the deal... So, perhaps that can be some-'consolation' for those still arduously-waiting on this wretched-Gringo - as long and drawn-out as it has-taken for me to come-thru for ya's - I *will*... and I won't rest till yer happy..

..even if it leaves me 'in tears' - which this deal virtually-has, since my reward for being a 'good boy' in all this, has been the gift of some mongolian flu from outer-space - nothing will touch it, and my body seems hell-bent on having me wear my lungs on the outside.. I haven't been this sik in 14+ yrs.. >_< ...

Anyhoo.. 'sad-ending to a sad-ending'.. but, I guess as ol' Sinatra crooned.... 'That's Life'...
j