Almost a year since I saw it, been my carrot on a stick. Probably posted about it and photos of it, but didn't see it. Fixture other than a cracked lens in lens train was in remarkably great shape. Barely any shutter damage - lamp socket easy cleaning. Odd way to do the shutter retention & not very deep dimples in an added shutter plate to retain shutter tension. Probably early bought out Altman casting for a 360 series Leko - in vent holes not many bleeds of metal into the vent holes.
Cute fixture. Given the cracked lens and no replacement, I put two Altman 4.5x9 lenses into it's lens train from stock. I also converted it to LED color changing lamp so as to give the fixture back to the Property Manager as a book shelf prop light. A shame Osram discontinued their LED color changing lamps - they had the purest color rendering, most output and the smoothest cross fade between colors. Went with the Bulbrite #770190 as opposed to the TLR / Action Ltg. or Feit lamps. TLR snaps between colors and has worse color rendering, the Feit has a button on the lamp you have to press every time the lamp is turned on if you want it to change colors. Nice if you want a certain color from the lamp, but not workable within a Leko. Considered the new tech. controllable by cell phone lamps... nope. Output is almost nominal on the color changing lamp, but as a prop light... it does something with a fairly smooth color changing curve. Can always replace it with a standard A-Lamp.
Interesting in order to mount the lamp, I had to take it way out of bench focus at least for where the screws mounting it would want to go - this in adding a 1.1/2" standoff to the lamp base plentium. Wonder how bench focused the origional lamps will have also have been.
Cute fixture, a shame to give it back before adding it to the museum, but there will soon be more with similar cracked lenses and I now have an extra lens. Wonder how much it's worth on E-Bay especially if color changing prop light.
Cute fixture. Given the cracked lens and no replacement, I put two Altman 4.5x9 lenses into it's lens train from stock. I also converted it to LED color changing lamp so as to give the fixture back to the Property Manager as a book shelf prop light. A shame Osram discontinued their LED color changing lamps - they had the purest color rendering, most output and the smoothest cross fade between colors. Went with the Bulbrite #770190 as opposed to the TLR / Action Ltg. or Feit lamps. TLR snaps between colors and has worse color rendering, the Feit has a button on the lamp you have to press every time the lamp is turned on if you want it to change colors. Nice if you want a certain color from the lamp, but not workable within a Leko. Considered the new tech. controllable by cell phone lamps... nope. Output is almost nominal on the color changing lamp, but as a prop light... it does something with a fairly smooth color changing curve. Can always replace it with a standard A-Lamp.
Interesting in order to mount the lamp, I had to take it way out of bench focus at least for where the screws mounting it would want to go - this in adding a 1.1/2" standoff to the lamp base plentium. Wonder how bench focused the origional lamps will have also have been.
Cute fixture, a shame to give it back before adding it to the museum, but there will soon be more with similar cracked lenses and I now have an extra lens. Wonder how much it's worth on E-Bay especially if color changing prop light.
