The Revo B9504 has a lamp!
Slow and steady progress on this elderly Revo B9504. Since first acquiring it, I've been carefully working on it to prepare it for restoration. in this case its largely involving replacing missing components such as the 42 4BA screws for the glass clips, and 8 3/16" BSW screws for the lower glass clips. Of course, I chose brass so as to not introduce more different metals into the mix.

The glass amazingly is still made today, so I've opted to replace all 17 panes of glass for new owing to the fact that only two pieces were original, and the replacements fitted were poorly cut and in some cases didn't even fit properly.

This now left the lamp holder and a bracket. After carefully comparing, I deemed the lamp holder bracket in the Simplex well glass light as close a match I'll ever find, but even that needed some slight alterations so it would fit the way it would need to. I asked Jonathan whether he could create a 3D file to 3D print a new bracket taking into account a slight difference I needed in one measurement. As you can see, the prototype printed out is replicated absolutely perfectly, without a flaw whatsoever. I tapped the holes to receive the screws and screwed it all into place. Fitting a lamp, the lantern is already looking totally transformed.

I'm now in the process of having the bracket 3D printed in metal, as intended. 300w lamps are no joke when it comes to heat. Once the correct Brass sheet arrives, I can begin the task of bending and cutting the brass to the correct shapes to make the clips, and then I can strip down the lantern where needed to begin it's proper (and correct) restoration.

The Revo B9504 has a lamp!

Slow and steady progress on this elderly Revo B9504. Since first acquiring it, I've been carefully working on it to prepare it for restoration. in this case its largely involving replacing missing components such as the 42 4BA screws for the glass clips, and 8 3/16" BSW screws for the lower glass clips. Of course, I chose brass so as to not introduce more different metals into the mix.

The glass amazingly is still made today, so I've opted to replace all 17 panes of glass for new owing to the fact that only two pieces were original, and the replacements fitted were poorly cut and in some cases didn't even fit properly.

This now left the lamp holder and a bracket. After carefully comparing, I deemed the lamp holder bracket in the Simplex well glass light as close a match I'll ever find, but even that needed some slight alterations so it would fit the way it would need to. I asked Jonathan whether he could create a 3D file to 3D print a new bracket taking into account a slight difference I needed in one measurement. As you can see, the prototype printed out is replicated absolutely perfectly, without a flaw whatsoever. I tapped the holes to receive the screws and screwed it all into place. Fitting a lamp, the lantern is already looking totally transformed.

I'm now in the process of having the bracket 3D printed in metal, as intended. 300w lamps are no joke when it comes to heat. Once the correct Brass sheet arrives, I can begin the task of bending and cutting the brass to the correct shapes to make the clips, and then I can strip down the lantern where needed to begin it's proper (and correct) restoration.

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AngryHorse   [18 Jun, 2025 at 11:28 AM]
Gives you a true scale of it now it’s carrying a 300 watt GLS Cool
Dave   [21 Jun, 2025 at 11:00 PM]
Honestly to me 300w looks way oversized for this lantern, but checking original literature it states the lanterns deisgned for 300w GLS only, so thats what I'm rolling with
Beta 5   [22 Jun, 2025 at 11:29 AM]
Really interesting to see a dedicated 300W GLS enclosed luminaire like this, I'm most often used to seeing them in old shovel floodlights as they seem to be one of the last old GLS fittings you still see every so often.
I guess to run something a little dimmer you could always fit an E40 to E27 adaptor and run say 150W E27 lamps Smile

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