Light not working, needs repair.

[Lucien Nunes]

I have an old light in the workshop that has not been used for a long time and needs some TLC. First to put a name to it (not you, Marconi) wins a weekend for two in sunny Hertfordhire loading vans at the warehouse. You can ask questions about the pics.
First problem, this was jammed with hardened grease

 

[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 Projection arcs such as this were widely superseded by xenon in the 1970s and 1980s.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

 

[westward10]

UFO one of my favourite programmes takes me right back to my childhood just one series with 26 episodes. Mostly filmed in and around Pinewood studios no doubt lit by carbon arc lights.

 

[Lucien Nunes]

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

It's not always this interesting. We are known for the exotic but we have plenty of bread-and-butter projects too. I have more or less managed to wriggle out of nailing things to walls, pulling cable, rigging shows, etc. but it's nice to wire the occasional theatre dimmer room to keep a hand in, and MI work on the few occasions it's needed.

 

[loz2754]

UFO one of my favourite programmes takes me right back to my childhood just one series with 26 episodes. Mostly filmed in and around Pinewood studios no doubt lit by carbon arc lights.

Interceptors one two and three immediate launch...

 

[Megawatt]

No to automotive and machine tools.
More wrecked threads, this is a main terminal where two screws clamp the cable against a casting. They're 10/32TPI screws so I'll run a tap in and see if the casting is retrievable
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Is it a some type of a very old generator

 

[Lister1987]

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

Rule #1 of electrical -----up-ery; TAKE A PICTURE FIRST

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