Light not working, needs repair.

[westward10]

To be honest I was just a youngster and thinking back on it the whole set-up was lethal but it became second nature just to connect straight into these things without a thought. Riggers gloves and a spanner.

 

[GBDamo]

Without wanting to work my tongue too far up...

...this is why you old timers are so smart, Dawinism in the workplace did a fine job of refining the talent pool.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

Pos and neg feeds sorted out.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

What do we think about this rubber flex... not too bad eh?

 

[Lucien Nunes]

New glass braid /silicone insulated wiring to motor rheostat in original flexible conduit

 

[Lucien Nunes]

I took this apart but forgot to note which wire went where. Can somebody help?

 

[telectrix]

I took this apart but forgot to note which wire went where. Can somebody help?View attachment 63583

cut the blue wire. ! nope red lads, red. cut the F*cking red.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

Leave no fuse unturned

 

[Lucien Nunes]

Motor connected up and feeding happily, although there is a little excess friction in the main geartrain even after thorough oiling. I'll have a look inside that tomorrow. Knocking off for now.

 

[westward10]

Radio Spares fuses.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

Getting close now. I've lined up a pair of small carbons for testing. Morganite Link NC 6mm x 9" neg and CA 7mm x 12" pos.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

More

 

[buzzlightyear]

Radio Spares fuses

I wonder what is grommet working on .lol.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

I've put a silicon rectifier in place of the mercury arc for the moment. We need to do a risk / benefit analysis on bringing the mercury bulb because it might not be visible anyway. I don't want to move it if I don't have to.

Also mirror back in and ready..

 

[westward10]

Don't you go pointing that up into the sky at night you will have the aviation police after you?

 

[Lucien Nunes]

And it's alight

 

[buzzlightyear]

Don't you go pointing that up into the sky at night you will have the aviation police after you

 

[Lucien Nunes]

This, people, is where our industry started in earnest, 150 years ago, when the earliest practical applications of the arc lamp offered a light brilliant enough to illuminate streets and buildings without gas or quicklime.

Filament lamps soon took over for low-intensity uses, but until the 1950s the carbon-arc was the only practical high-intensity, high-power light source for projection and searchlight duties.. Projection arcs such as this were widely superseded by xenon in the 1970s and 1980s.

A good morning's work, time for lunch.

 

[Zerax]

I wish my work was as interesting as yours Lucien...

 

[littlespark]

I’ve been watching the old Gerry Anderson programmes on BritBox recently..... looks like you’ve got the “high tech” computer props from UFO and Space 1999