His crew is a fairly young one, using secondhand equipment and willing to take any job to make a living.
Friends gave them their old speakers and turntables, and they bought additional secondhand equipment.
Dr. Marino explained that costs are contained somewhat by purchasing secondhand equipment.
Running the company out of a basement office with secondhand equipment, Bisciotti and Davis produced $1.5 million in sales in the first year.
Mr. Martinez admitted that he had to cheat a little, by borrowing money from the school's health department budget, to get even this secondhand equipment.
The company has gotten by on secondhand and often rudimentary equipment.
The brewery's infrastructure was cobbled together from secondhand equipment.
He said that a careful shopper, buying secondhand equipment, could put together a backyard theater for as little as a few hundred dollars.
Seed money and secondhand equipment are desperately needed.
An extensive programme of modernisation was undertaken by the Southern Railway, albeit with secondhand equipment from the mainland.