Thanks all!!!
Carrot on a stick for me to get to this weekend amongst other work, home and other museum projects under works. Other more huge projects are so far discontinued for the weekend including cleaning out both Grahm's and helping clean out Clyde's condo as with negotiations with his theater that's also in the process of giving it back to the Church, and while there is this gear to buy or fix... one doesn't rush the Church. All are in a stall for even older gear for the weekend other than the I think six I now have here to work on that have been in process a while now including this light only waiting a week now. Been a long six months - for a certain project at home for instance, I said this weekend after a few weeks now, I would finally get to it. Wife said months...
That P-28s
socket info is incrediably helpful. (Cannot immagine the idiot that would re-wire it as per the photo for say a FEL style lamp, than not stop and figure out where they went wrong? Photos are close enough in some
bench focus concept should have been learned.) Such info will ever so much help me bring it back to what it was - this assuming they at least in "upgrade" saved the plentium and
bench focus mechanism. TBA.
Took home the other
fixture - the perhaps 3rd edition of a Century
Leko and it did indeed say Century on it. Project for it is to install it's real
lamp cap onto it (now found) as oppesed to the one I made out of the body of a American DJ pinspot with the rest fabricated out of photos or drawings 0 this was a very popular
Leko in books. With the found
lamp cap, it should be brought back again in complete as opposed to a few that are as best can do or imagined - but only a few of them.
Of the Century #1590 and the unknown other say Version II
Leko, both look really similar otherwise than outher body shape so far. Second edition I am yet to open it up or really examine it much. If intersted I can take photos further on both or the main project. Both weigh a similar boat anchor ton for like a 6x9 in size and are about the same height. This plus have most of the vent holes in similar places and of similar sizes mostly. A few minor differences in size but not of location or amount. Plus the same knobs as per the
Century wrench I believe from the "Lighting Encyclopedia." (
Book with a differing history than some text books from the date and "
Stage Lighting A-Z" as per a dictionary in form but very similar.) Thus also some questions of lighting history during the period given two encyclopedias or dictionaries, and a library of classic lighting books I have with differing dates given for stuff or contridictury info in some cases. Minor details in none showing this specific
fixture.
I believe it is a Century and so far as I can tell the link between the #1590 and the origional. Also believe I have seen it before in a
book or some form of photo or listing. Where? That could help to date it further beyond the above say between 1939 and 1947 the best my books show each other version. That plus WWII where limited
fixture design was probably done. ?Perhaps between 1939 and 1942 for a date if not during the war developed?