From: Sil Horwitz (silh@earthlink.net)
Date: 04/06/00-10:41:55 AM Z
At 2000/04/06 12:00 PM -0400, it was noted:
>Lektra was located in College Point, Queens ( New York City). I don't know if
>they are still around.
Not in this incarnation, but these companies spring back like mushrooms. If
you make a Google check (www.google.com) there are three pages on Lektra
timers. There is one excellent one for sale on eBay this week. Used
darkroom equipment places sometimes have them, as there are lots out there.
One point, though: you do not necessarily need a "vacuum tube" timer for
those light box printers. What is needed is a heavy-duty relay output, and
most of the cheaper electronic timers use a semiconductor to open and close
the output circuit. An excellent timer for those old box printers was (or
is?) the Gralab mechanical timer, which does use an output relay. According
to the literature, Lektra did make a "gas" timer, which was intended for
the gaseous light bulbs in the printer boxes, but that's old technology and
any heavy duty timer should work (though you must make sure the output
comes from a relay).
Sil Horwitz, FPSA
Technical Editor, PSA Journal
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