"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote in message
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I have a Kodak safe light that looks like a metal cone. One
end screws into
a lamp socket, the other holds a round filter. It's
probably from the 1960's
or older, but it's the only thing I could get here in any
color except red.

I bought out the last of the locally availaible little red
things that
use nightlight bulbs and a bunch of the bulbs, so I am
covered for red,
but I wanted an orange (Wratten OC) filter as I can see
much better by
it.

The problem I have, is that here in Israel, we have been
ahead of
everyone else in energy saving, CFL bulbs have been sold
here, and used
by me, since 1997. That's good, but it has caused the
demand and
therefore the supply of low wattage incadescent bulbs to
dry up.

I found a few Chinese made 7-10 watt bulbs, but they only
last a few
hours. I found a 15 watt bulb sold for refrigerators, but
it has a
different base and I am trying to adapt it, but may not be
able to get
those bulbs much longer and they are very expensive being
made to
operate at 0F and below.

The smallest incadescent bulbs that are still common here
are 40 watt
bulbs.

What is everyone else doing for safelights?

Thanks in advance,

Geoff.

AKA Beehive lamp. Get the smallest wattage compact
fluorescent lamp you can obtain and use some layers of plain
writing paper over the filter or inside against the filter.
The compact fluoresent lamps have some after glow but that
should not be a problem for a safelight. I don't think they
run hot enough to cause problems with the paper.


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