Damnation rot it's bollocks!
DD, that's a bugger that is. I just KNOW there'd have been tons of stuff I'd have bought and if needs be cleaned up, hell those flash bulbs, I know just what those would have been useful for. flash-pumped lasers.
No need be to clean up anything. It was still a point of pride with me when I stored them all away. I wrapped everything in plastic and packed it in foam for safe keeping, fully intending to use it all again some day. Even the various few dozen light stands, tripods and background booms and beams were oiled up and wrapped in plastic before I stored them away in my garage. But re-establishing a photography business never happened.
I did sell my sixteen inch and twenty four inch continuous paper processors while they still had value. I got nineteen thousand dollars for those two beasts in 2002. I got about five thousand for my large format enlarger with six various length lenses, Rodenstock, Schneider, Nikon, even a classic Kodak lens.
I also had a flat bed projector that would take a standard contact print from a large format or proof size from a medium or small format and project it up to sixty by forty inches, used to help sell enlargements. It used three Rodenstock lenses and I got two thousand for that super nice piece of equipment. All that was many years ago, 2002.
So, I can not really say that I got nothing for everything. Just irritating that all that super bad ass lighting equipment was not sellable.
