Actually, I find this subject very interesting, mainly because I too have some broken things that I don't know what to do with, and I simply cannot afford keeping them as paperweight items. Most of them are failed purchases on ebay, and I'd like to either recover the money I spent (I'm trying to save for a DSLR), or repair them myself and actually use them. The latteral problems that arise:
1. Who would buy 3 Spotmatics, 1 ME Super, 1 MV and a Jupiter 37A, all of them more or less broken, for the price I payed for them?
2. Another issue would be the place to actually sell them, because selling on ebay gives me no real control on final price, and here at the Marketplace requires another 20 USD which I don't have, because that's why I want to sell stuff in the first place.
3. If I decide to repair them, I will need some tools too, which I don't have and which are not free either. Buying screwdrivers and wrenches also does not guarantee that I will manage to actually repair something with them.
I may well be very pessimistic in seeing the situation, but I hear you that it really is frustrating to have money blocked in things you'll never use. I sold much of my guitar equipment because of that, but I had good luck with somebody willing to pay a good price for what was then just a piece of wood and some cables
Returning to broken film cameras, I figured out that I might be better off selling them not FOR parts, but AS parts. That means, $5 for this, $5 for that, and would be a pretty good business. I am not however sure of the morality of that, disassembling fixable cameras just for the sake of money. I kind of pity them, too.
Bottom line, I'm sure money is not everything in this world, but it's that now I need it for a Dslr, and I certainly won't let go of what H have until I obtain what I want. If I already had a digital camera, things wouldn't have been as they are. Why I am talking so much about money is because I'm sure you're also thinking about it too, otherwise you wouldn't have bothered to open this topic.
Pardon my very long post (it way be the longest at PF), it must be the late hour.