So after some successful use, the right hand side projector xenon lamp has started to refuse to strike. Each time it is struck it blows the 6amp fuse on the lamp house. Having experience with igniter units, tesla coils and the scary electrics involved I was fairly pessimistic about being able to fix this. Everything inside the lamphouse looked in …

These old cinema 35mm projectors are in St.James’s Hall in Kilbeggan, Eire. The plan is to somehow or other restore them to working order and maybe modernise the light sources as they both ran carbon arc lamphouses. see this special edition of REWIND (by the PPT) where the first projectors mentioned are simplex. In this publication are also very fine …