Finally got done as a deal this museum after the Eric Clapton / Crossroads Fendor vendor tent requested some antique fixtures so as to match up with the rest of the antique guitars
etc. in the tent. Who ya gonna
call... Finally got done after a few other times requested for my fixtures in the past year... Want my Kliegl Dyna Beam.. really it does belong to me and you need to ask me before you can use it. This much less given it has a bench focused origional 3Kw incancandescent lamp in it... no you cannot use it for your show.
There was costs in making antique fixtures into working for a show fixtures. From the Dyna-Beam that took about a 4" extension of screws to it's
base to make modern lamped (and got really, really close to proper
bench focus for it after a lot of tinkering, - and a lot of paid man/hours so as to do so, to having to figure out just how to safely
bench focus a Century #1568 once re-lamped for 1Kw, to
etc. A lot of work for my "You Want What" as most properly described electrical department at work, to work on, this much less my own time in prepping and making the stand light - this given no parts for it are available on the market thus fabrication and even drilling and tapping for 1.1/4" NPT which ain't easy on a cast antique but surplus Major also antique stand. Many coats of paint on the elder fiture's
reflector, even
dulling spray on the outside of it so as not to gloss too much. Some fixtures were fine given a clenaning, others needed a lot of work. Museum... much of it is done now, though a further inventory of gear to be cleaned and now ready, or fixtures that need huge service calls. Still a good "carrot on a stick" for me in getting to them as opposed to just storing them away. The 8"
Leko some past employee left behind took a few hours to re-wire and
bench focus itself once
clear he no-longer wanted it. Offered him like $45.00 for it as fair price... left it behind when he quit about a year ago. Spent at least that in time and parts in re-wiring it. Want it... come clame it. Will give it back, given the cost and labor of making it
current and safe + storage fees given it was abandoned over a year ago. Might just give it back as re-wired... depends on mood and asking for it. Not his persay, he no doubt got it from his past High School Theatere and has not asked for it since I snipped the
asbestos whip upon site, gave him a price and didn't accept it... yet never asked for his
fixture back once evaluated. Mine now... TBA some day his if he requests it. One would think after a week or month he would take back the
fixture he wanted me to buy as presented and not acceptable for price in buying. One would also think after over a year since he quit, that he might request his
fixture back. Storage fee's, me re-wiring it
etc.... Good debate if his or mine at this
point. I cannot allow a health risk thus snipped cable, and after a year of free storage to a non-employee, and with no contact by him since about it... it got re-wired as classic
fixture he had no idea about and now is up to
current factory standards for specification. Perfect working condition.... Good debate on if his, mine or work's at this
point.
Many such fixtures as it were my antiques for a show, and the details not becoming finilized until only one week before the show - this in me asking. Once my fixtures got to the shop/show and out of my garage... they stay there. No rental price for the fixtures, I want my single car garage back and a Museum at work in exchange. TBA with hanging the pipe and
safety cabling the ovalitte stand mount in it's new location. Gotta sort a lot of bolts and re-organize them. Carrot on a stick in getting it done. The antique's museum is approved, just gotta sort a lot of bolts before it gets hung. Than work on the
fixture history pages
etc. hung under them as per museum of lighting.
Dissappointed that for this show of antiques... neither anyone from the production asked the owner of the company to borrow his Very old and unique B-Pin
Fresnel from Mole Richardson. Was just kind of a thing I told them to ask so as to borrow but also that before use, I would have to remove the
asbestos from. Expect that there is very few examples of a
Bi-pin Fresnel fixture out there at this
point. Some medium screw 400G30/SP versions pre-dating them and I have one, but no
bi-pin Fresnel examples otherwist as common. This is a unique and important fiture that the owner owns and is spectacular for display - still in the front
lobby at the shop, but still also
Asbestos in wiring. Show didn't request the
fixture, and given the owner of the company is "temermental" as it were... used to chat directly with him but now I and all of us now go
thru channels of people to chat with him, I asked the Faculties' Manager in expressing what would need to be done with the
fixture, and in touching the 'Owner's gear, did I have permission to re-wire it, and or did the show have permission to use it.... Answer was nope' Nobody asked and it's at times tempermental in asking the companie's owner if we can use his gear without notice. Won't even ask him - no you cannot display his gear in a tent that he will be visiting.
Ok... Fair enough... glad I asked in not touching his gear or making it safe.
Punt... a few different and if even older Fresnels to replace this one wanted at the last minute. TBA next time I speak to one of the owner's... Used to know me by name in direct visits, but these days...
thru channels.
Anyway... the Museum is gonna get hung finally. That's a good thing. All in the mesuem are re-wired and safe to use. Fully researched with lots of time in doing so as above says I think. Photo's TBA.
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