1) The Hex body steel top fixtures are some varient of either Century 6"
Leko 36°, c.1938-41 or
Hub #8768, c.1958-62 - 750T12/9 P-28s lamp. Black, Hexigon body & Square radial
lamp cap. Most likely the later version.
Hub normally had a sticker on the
fixture, Century normally had a stamping but not always in either case.
I actually fought a E-Bay battle for my only sample of this with a fellow member of the forum for one of these - we figured out who was bidding on what and settled off
line on who would get what amongst a few auctions we were bidding up each other on. I got this
fixture as opposed to I believe a Kliegl PC from about 1924'.
Rare
fixture in the Century concept (educated theory on my part,) of the first Generation of a 6"
Leko, with date. But not so rare if
Hub Electric if one of theirs.
Hub re-sold or re-used Century resale fixtures often 20 or more years out of date in being modern. In my case, I had period Century knobs and parts in use, I was able to verify from a after this generation of
Leko. Later
Hub put stickers over Century castings or removed Century stickers and put “Major” knobs in replacement on Century lights. Long story in below
Hub also buying out old castings from
Altman also, and making their old Radial
Leko’s from their old castings.... Easy tell is the
Hub Leko’s don’t have a light
blocking ring for the
lamp cap, and the upper body aluminum castings have sharper edges and often vent holes blocked by bad casting.
2) Some radial
Altman Leko’s of various
lens train
Altman #360 6x9
Leko, c.1962-1974 P-28s Medium
Pre-focus lamp. -
Altman Hammertone Brown; Radial
Base. I do not believe them in photo the
Hub version of this same
fixture style.
3) Some form of 6"
Fresnel - what ever the style, will have the same performance to a modern 65Q
Altman Fresnel fixture. Square
gel frame clips say pre- 1974.
4) 10"
Altman Scoops - still made and nothing wrong with them for use of
scoop or lightning
effect lighting.
5) Appears to be a
Altman Shakesphere
fixture next to the mass of cables. Discontinued but certainly not a bad
fixture. Just got my first two in last week. (One for the museum, one to donate to a community theater.) Has flutes on the upper part of the body assembly - as with the handles. C.1992
thru about 2016?
6) Cannot tell what the rest of the gear is.
Certainly all gear given exposed wiring due to failed fiberglass sleeving, and in general due to age of all will need a good service
call before use in any way. All gear needs at least a qualified
safety inspection before use. Corroded from arching lamp sockets, following that melted internal wiring inside the lights due to heat buildup from above makes such fixtures dangerous short of thorough inspection.
What to re- use.... Scoops, Fresnels, Shakespheres. Such fixtures to plan to have in just going
LED for the rest.
Taking apart and recycling is an inefficient use of your time best spent on the useful fixtures, and in a historical sense, a bad use of your destruction of what was. Find a place out of the way and hang the lights to preserve them. Nothing is seen to be
asbestos in wiring so everything was post 1974 (Evidence in late
Hub above Leo’s) or re-wired since than. None the less, safe to store for a future generation that might make something of them. I just finished delivering some 4.5"
Hub and other brands of
Leko including some of your above
Altman #360 series 6x9 into prop lights.
LED RGBW,
DMX controlled color changing TMB brand
Marquee lamps to be specific. They only have like 25 watts of output - but there is other
LED node concepts available once you deal with heat dissipation in more output. Prop lights of 12x origional lights from the theater, converted to
LED which with the rest of the audience chandeliers and
cove lighting...
pixel map the audience with controlled RGBW light.
Save your old lights, some day they might be useful. As a technical
point... I did have to invent brackets to go
LED node with forced cooling added. Than further invent a lamp
base adaptor so as to
bench focus the dim TMB
system to old
Leko. Technology will improve in having a use for the old style fixtures. Save them.