Les
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I guess you could say I'm channeling my inner @ship . Since I moved in to a house with a garage back in May, I've been going through older fixtures I've acquired over the years and found that I have a decent assortment of fixtures made by Little Stage Lighting. A few were given to me by an old school, a couple others from our Center for Visual Arts (more of a multi-use/art gallery space and not the theater proper) and one or two from a church in Dallas. I also have a couple of the F-10 Opto Followspots sitting in a storage unit (taking me a while to move out of that thing).
These are nothing spectacular or relevant, but I seem to come across them every few years since I live in a suburb just 25 miles north of where they were manufactured. And since stage lighting has changed more in the last ten years than it did in the previous fifty, I enjoy having a collection of older fixtures. Maybe someday I'll collect enough to rehang my rep plot for April Fools Day .
A couple need to be rewired (had their asbestos whips chopped off years ago) but the rest are functional aside from needing some minor strain relief and cosmetic work. I imagine they will find a spot on a piece of unistrut in my garage so they can enjoy a quiet retirement.
I found it odd that the axial fixtures have stepped lenses, but I can't be sure that these are the lens tubes they shipped with. The axials also have the same ginormous reflector hole, though centered. They are now equipped with standard TP-22 style sockets, but could have been converted from pre-focus sockets sometime in the past. I'll look a little closer at them tomorrow.
Of the ones that work, none appeared incorrect from an optical standpoint - aside from the artifacts you would expect from stepped lenses, radially-mounted pre-focus lamps, and huge reflector holes.
These are nothing spectacular or relevant, but I seem to come across them every few years since I live in a suburb just 25 miles north of where they were manufactured. And since stage lighting has changed more in the last ten years than it did in the previous fifty, I enjoy having a collection of older fixtures. Maybe someday I'll collect enough to rehang my rep plot for April Fools Day .
A couple need to be rewired (had their asbestos whips chopped off years ago) but the rest are functional aside from needing some minor strain relief and cosmetic work. I imagine they will find a spot on a piece of unistrut in my garage so they can enjoy a quiet retirement.
I found it odd that the axial fixtures have stepped lenses, but I can't be sure that these are the lens tubes they shipped with. The axials also have the same ginormous reflector hole, though centered. They are now equipped with standard TP-22 style sockets, but could have been converted from pre-focus sockets sometime in the past. I'll look a little closer at them tomorrow.
Of the ones that work, none appeared incorrect from an optical standpoint - aside from the artifacts you would expect from stepped lenses, radially-mounted pre-focus lamps, and huge reflector holes.
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