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Subject: Drum 10 slide viewer
Date: 2008-11-18 03:02:04
From: Mark

Hi

Just wanted to see if anyone owns one and what they think of it?

I'm considering buying one.

Whats the best / resonable price for use?

Do you find people avoid it or want to use it? Does the price of
operation have a tipping point? Like 50 cents too much, 25 is right?

Love to hear some comments before parting with money.

Cheers

M

Subject: Re: Drum 10 slide viewer
Date: 2008-11-18 03:33:55
From: Harry Calderbank

--- In MF3D-group@yahoogroups.com, "Mark" wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> Just wanted to see if anyone owns one and what they think of it?
>
> I'm considering buying one.
>
> Whats the best / resonable price for use?
>
> Do you find people avoid it or want to use it? Does the price of
> operation have a tipping point? Like 50 cents too much, 25 is

right?

>
> Love to hear some comments before parting with money.
>
> Cheers
>
> M

Hi Mark,

I ran a small business for a year with a few of the drum viewers at
tourist visitor information centres on the north coast of Tasmania.
I would have loved to have them in busier locations but for where
they were, they performed well. Visitors seemed happy enough to part
with a dollar coin for a short diversion. I had them set to display
each slide for 15 seconds, not the ridiculous 6 seconds suggested by
3D world. I found the dollar was just right. (60 cents US or 45 p UK)

As for wanting to use it or avoiding it, it pays to have some
excellent signs explaining it and telling folks clearly what it is.
Failing that, make sure you can set it up in an area where there is
someone on hand to promote it personally and show folks what it is
and how to use it.

Sadly for me, my business no longer exists partly for the above
reason. I had little interest in promotion of it from the staff of
the visitor information centres. They left people to read the signs
I used myself. I was also in a position of having to make sure I was
well insured for public liability and that soaked up most of the
profits. It was needed too, as I went into one of the visitor
centres one day and found two young children treating the viewer like
a piece of playground equipment.

Maybe one day I will have them set up in a more appropriate area
where I can personally supervise their use and maybe decrease the
insurance costs. In the mean time, I will be setting them up here at
home for a big home viewer. If you were local, I would happily sell
you one cheaply but the shipping costs from Australia are steep.

Good luck Mark. I hope whetever display you put on will work and get
plenty of use. If you want any more info, please contact me offlist
on hcalderbank@bigpond.com

regards,

Harry Calderbank

Subject: Re: Drum 10 slide viewer
Date: 2008-11-21 13:46:15
From: coronet3d

I own one and I don't think they are suitable for public use here in
the US - at least not unsupervised. With proper metal tools, you
could easily get into the coin box, which is plastic. I think the
best approach is to rent out some space at a seaside resort and have a
parlor of them, charge entry and dispense with the coin box. This way
they're supervised. For US use you would have to bury the device in a
metal box and provide an external metal coin box that would feed the
coin signal into the viewer's electronics. I can't see any other way
to leave it unsupervised.
Steve

Subject: Re: Drum 10 slide viewer
Date: 2008-11-22 11:44:51
From: Mark

--- In MF3D-group@yahoogroups.com, "coronet3d" wrote:

>
> I own one and I don't think they are suitable for public use here in
> the US - at least not unsupervised. With proper metal tools, you
> could easily get into the coin box, which is plastic. I think the
> best approach is to rent out some space at a seaside resort and have a
> parlor of them, charge entry and dispense with the coin box. This way
> they're supervised. For US use you would have to bury the device in a
> metal box and provide an external metal coin box that would feed the
> coin signal into the viewer's electronics. I can't see any other way
> to leave it unsupervised.
> Steve

Thanks for the feedback.

Initially it would be in a woman's lingerie boutique so I think it
would be safe there

M