Janet Puistonen wrote:

I live in Maine, and I've never seen any used chocolate equipment for sale
here, unfortunately. Too small, population-wise.

Oh, another thing I've found is to try to find things
that work for chocolate but are not advertised as such.
For example, a vibrator for getting air bubbles out of
chocolate in the mold is handy, but the models sold as
being for chocolate are expensive compared to dental
laboratory vibrators. They are a little small, but good
enough for low volume production.

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.