P3D The Conservator vs the Stereophile (Was: Vintage Slide Question)

["Mr.Lizard" <mrlizard@xxxxxxxx>]

    Sometimes I'm torn between being the Stereophile and the Conservator.  I
call myself a Collector, which, in my case, is a conservator/stereophile who
doesn't really know what he's doing....
I guess I'm some of each, at different times:
    When I collect something, I don't like to modify it.  So I can be a
"conservator".  Ex:  I've never refinished an antique stereoscope.  My
Nightmare Before Christmas figures are still MOC. You get the picture.
    Though, I bought a red button Realist viewer and then a Realist camera.
I was planning to actually use the camera.   So, I'd also be using the red
button fairly often.   I sent it to Dr. T for improvement. The
"stereophile," inside of me, won that battle.
    I ordered a Radex viewer with three views, from ebay.  When I received
them, it turned out that someone had either pulled out the film chips and
reversed them, or they were manufactured improperly.  I corrected the chips
on two of the three views, but left the third one intact... for the record.
The "collector" was afraid to fix all of them.

Chuck Fielddd