I have a stash of BTH, HPR, 100w
halogen A-19 lamps for strips, and a lot of other legacy lamps going back to the Indi 575' in
stock as per a "Don's Bulbs" source now out of business in difficult to find lamps. Off
line for contact source in not doing business on-line and also not
thru me.
Found out all of our scoops are going away... all three
Altman versions I suspect. That's a shame I suspect - never been anything better with photo flash lamp than a
scoop for lightning. But it follows 20 years of getting rid of stuff, than perhaps it comes back. Years ago we sold off most all our
PAR 64
stock at huge cheap prices, with lamp when the S-4
PAR came out... than we got the WWE account and had to new buy hundreds of them. Even now, we were to recycle more
PAR 64 cans, but suddenly had to pull them for a tour. The
beam projector really came back in the mid-2000's and every tour wanted them. A shame we got rid of them, but luckily one of our manager's stored them in his garage, they got rented back for use as with buying more. We bought back than R&V high output beam projectors (I later saved from de-listed from inventory), and put to use all the Altmans we could find that year.
A few months ago the
PAR 64 flashlight I made for a tour... they wanted to use it again. Luckily one of my assistants took those fixtures home or I would have to re-invent. But they wanted
LED PAR 64. There is no real replacement at this
point in
LED to 1KW verry narrow spot lamp, but did spend a few hundred dollars in getting a high
color temperature LED 500w equivolent version so as to trick the eye... Took some experientation for a viable... belive they went back to
halogen lamp for the tour.
This year so far it seems like at least two tours want the Shadow Light
fixture I invented with weeks notice for a David Byrn tour many years ago. I remember during an install in Peoria, flipping
thru the TV channels and came up was video of his show. This was a light I invented doing the primary lighting for, a few of his songs being shown.... that was kind of cool.
This week I had to invent a
gel frame and
barn door assembly to the
fixture for a tour fairly sure they will use it. Late today, another tour potentially wants 12 of them by Spring. I tried to sell them on the R&V beam projectors, or even my
stock of 1.2KW
PAR 64 lamps, but no go.
On 8" barn doors needed for the show... Believe I saw a
pallet of them recycled during or pre-pandamic. Luckily I found one in a small stash of them remaining given the
pallet of gear removed from my department during the Pandemic purge... got recycled. On the
pallet was rotary dimmers and odd barn doors amongst other stuff purged. Don't know how many still exist of the 8"
barn door, but last Spring an Accoutment Manager was needing them for a tour... they didn't exist in our
system and nobody was making them... had to rent. Interesting in discussion abut the pallets of 8" tophats and half top hats. I noted this
barndoor problem to the Account Manager that was on the tour of Purging gear, given a too much
stock issue. I warned him to check if anyone is still making such things before recycling them.
While I have purged thosands of dollars of moving light lamps over the past couple of years, I am for the most part left alone in lamps. Four pallets of
PAR 30
thru PAR 64 500w lamps purgeed they sit on resale pallets... Not my active
stock or storage.