Topic: Would you buy a Roll Film Vending machine?

[ManuelL]

Hi,

I stumbled accross this Roll Film Vending Machine on the bay. It is pick-up only, but not too far away.
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Automat-Alt-Antik-Nostalgie-Film-Rollfilm-Dachbodenfund-shabby-chic-/281582683757?pt=Automaten&hash=item418fa2c66d

I've seen a couple of restored ones and always thought they were kinda cool. This one would need some serious restoration and our flat is already quite cramped.
So, can you please tell me this is something truely awful you would never even consider for a second - to make my GAS go away.

Thanks for your support!
Manuel

[Indofunk]

It's shabby chic!!

[ManuelL]

 
Thanks! That's the spirit. GAS is already ebbing away. 

[SLVR]

It would actually be awesome to turn this into a film fridge

[sapata]

Love this! 

[Indofunk]

Actually, "shabby chic" is a selling point for me...

[Bryan]

I think it's pretty cool but the wife would never allow it in the house.  If you don't have the means to restore it you should probably leave it to someone that does.  I hope it doesn't turn to scrap.

[Francois]

Bah! You don't need that. Martha Stewart would probably put it in the kitchen and paint some lovely flowers on it or something.

[MitzyG]

I hate it when people say "my spouse wouldn't let me," you live there, too, don't you?

I would buy it at that price in a heartbeat and put it in my studio, which I fully intend to have soon. If I didn't have a studio, I would put it in my living room with pride. Every room needs a touch of red.

My husband would say, "Cool!"

[Bryan]

I hate it when people say "my spouse wouldn't let me," you live there, too, don't you?

MitzyG, I travel so much for work I'm just considered a guest when I'm home, a guest that just messes up the place.

[mcduff]

I hate it when people say "my spouse wouldn't let me," you live there, too, don't you?

I occasionally might say "she will kill me" but some structure is good as I am bit of a pack rat, and of all the family members, including the kids, I have the most shit that takes up the most space. I have a ton of skateboards (even tho my knee keeps telling me it is over) a pile of snowboards (my knee is OK with that one), XC Skis, bikes, cameras (of course), enough frozen film to survive an apocolypse, etc, etc. So some limits are good for me.

And don't worry, I impose some limits on some of her excesses! (Plus she won't kill me as she is kind of sweet on me.)

[k.hendrik]

buy it because it's "Schön; wie in der Mainzelmännchen".

[Francois]

In reality, if I were any closer and had the money, I'd probably get it as it's one of those one of a kind rarities you only see once in a lifetime.

Besides, it could either make a nice piggy bank/film dispensing machine to help fund future film purchases.

[ManuelL]

Thanks! I will give it some more thought. I wouldn't buy it at that price, but might put in an offer.
It is probably more something that should go into a museum than sit in a living room. (It would go nicely with our living room though - we already have a few red pieces of furniture) 

[LT]

That is cool.

[Hungry Mike]

I'm with Francois on this... If that was in Canada or even upstate New York and if the price was right I'd buy. It'd be a fun project. I could put all the Fuji cine film I imagined that I bought in it.

[Bryan]

Thanks! I will give it some more thought. I wouldn't buy it at that price, but might put in an offer.
It is probably more something that should go into a museum than sit in a living room. (It would go nicely with our living room though - we already have a few red pieces of furniture) 

It never hurts to make an offer, especially if it's been sitting on eBay a while.  I've gotten some great deals that way.

[tkmedia]

Though not refrigerate, you can use a few models of coin operated laundry soap vending machines for this purpose.

[zapsnaps]

Buy it! And then build a home studio around it. Or a darkroom. Or put it in the garden, remove the internals and use it as a small tool chest or plant stand. But buy it and then decide what to do with it.