Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: My 8-cases of WABASH Press 40B Flashbuls
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 12:05:13 -0700

ED Cherney wrote:
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> Actually...I've got 8-full-cases of "WABASH" (before they became
> Sylvania) Press 40B bulbs...(now...don't ask which rock and cave I
> crawled out from under...hah).
> I'm just coming out of retirement and re-discovered photography...with
> snip
> What I see now, is...I have a choice...either get a Leica camera and
> lens...or use the money to buy a new car. ...hah.
> snip.Thanks Folks...luv-ya-all!]...ED.
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> Thanks Mark!...Out of curiousity...I checked to see if ANY Press 40B
> bulbs were listed...and...they ARE!...@ $2.25 EACH!
> Lesse now...I have 8 Full Factory sealed cases of WABASH Bulbs...with
> 120 per case...which makes a total of 960 flashbulbs...@ $2,25 each (of
> course...that's for REGULAR Sylvania bulbs...but...since mine are WABASH
> (from the 1940's era...we can add a buck per bulb for rareity...rrght?
> Hmmm...@$3.25 a piece...that makes it...
> the price of a New LEICA! ($3,020.)...or only $2.060. if ya wanna be
> cheap about it...at only $2.25 each...but...FACTORY SEALED
> CASES?...[Make THAT Five Bucks EACH!)...hah.
> THANKS Marc...I appreciate that webpage very much...ED.

I have a bunch of bulbs that old too only one out of three fire! It
would be cool to fire them all off the same time New millenniums eve!
Course you could set up a few cameras set on B and see what you get!
Drunk people kissing? Well lit Drunk people kissing?
Mark Rabiner