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Topic: Simplex XL threading lamp Q
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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!
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Posts: 12814
From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 05-26-2001 03:15 PM
The "offical" threading and framing lamp is the #55. Sometimes other lamps are subbed. In addition to the #55, I've seen #44, #47 and #51. The #51 is a small round bulb that is handy for the Simplex 35/70 since the shutter blade comes rather close.You might also want to tighten the lousy screws on the lousy door hinges...they often come loose. Unfortunately, the value of the door lamps aka theading lamps has diminished since the interior of the Simplex has been painted colors other than white. With a white interior and properly set up threading lamps, one can thread, quite easily, without other illumination! Steve ------------------ "Old projectionists never die, they just changeover!"
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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man
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Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 05-27-2001 02:32 AM
Aaron, Get a good set of Chicago Miniature lamps rated at 10,000 hours or so. Then, run them at no more than 6.3 volts AC and they will last many years. If you guys get the Radio Smack version, you'll be lucky to get one week out of them. Any certain number on a lamp should get the same brilliance - (a #55 by Radio Smack, a #55 by CM, a #55 by Sun Ray, [yada yada yada] should all light up the same brightness). Some appear not to, because of the crappy contact they make in the socket, which seems to be quite typical..
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