I knew of this guy from way back in my early days of getting into infrared flash photography. He had experimented with IR flash as well and I studied what he had done. I had spent 4+ years trying to perfect IR flash photography, then one day it all came together. I could have just as easily given up a day before the breakthrough success, but luckily I was too stupid to quit.
Recently he put up a video about someone giving him a Heidelberg Tango Drum Scanner for free. The person had to hound him for a year to take it.
He got it going with the help of a consultant that charges $200 an hour and it is pretty impressive. I had read here that people give away $$ cine' film scanners for free. I could not believe it.
...well, apparently people do give away $$ scanners for free.