HISTORY:
My primary interests have always been electronics and the 'the arts' and more specifically, music, artwork and hand crafted/decorated chinaware's.
I am not a film enthusiast but an associate has asked me to find new owners for THEIR large collection of photographic and film items ... this is yet another one of those items.
One of his machines was the TITAN TRIMATIC silent projector which just had too many issues to warrant having it serviced so it is now sitting on the workbench undergoing "the operation" i.e it is becoming an organ donor for other TITAN projectors. These TITAN's are built like a battleship with extensive use of diecast metal for the frame, those parts have gone off to a scrap metal dealer.
This is the base socket (only) for the projector lamp, dismantled and presented as a "kit" - why so? Usually this socket sits inside a very sturdy metal frame work but I felt that it is unlikely someone would need the frame for the socket and as a result, this keeps shipping costs to a minimum (less weight) for the socket.
If, for some reason you need the frame, I have no discarded it but it is set aside and will at a later time offered as part of mixed collection of internal metalwares, circlips etc ... that will happen once all of the important "organs" have been extracted from the projector.
TITAN (Japan) - Lamp socket assembly
Supplied as a kit of parts, the socket itself (with one lead remaining attached) plus the three locating pins, spacers, miniature compression springs and the tiny circlips
Made in Japan
Circa early 1980's (machine is date stamped 1983)
Each small component has been sealed in it's own little packet, these things are easy to lose!
The single Blue normally goes off to the function switch terminal, I have left it intact at the socket. The other side of the lamp supply is via a wire which is soldered to the socket frame, I have disconnected that wire (Black) and it will be supplied with the AC transformer (leaving it connected to the transformer terminal)
COSMETIC CONDITION:
USED (Extracted from the TRIMATIC Silent projector)
CLEAN
NO parts are damaged, particularly those tiny circlips used to lock the three pillars in place.
The socket is undamaged and certainly not cracked at all.
NOTE: I have tested the material this socket is made from, it just "looked" a bit suspicious and YES, this reacts positively to a Bakelite test (Yellow/Brown residue comes off when rubbed) - the socket is made from that very early plastic, Bakelite.
I have now carefully packed this special socket assembly, complete with all parts showing in the photograph, into a clear plastic package and it is now patiently waiting to bring life for another lonely, sad projector with a damaged projector lamp socket.
