Help I live in vancouver Canada, and was unable to find a bulb for my enlarger. I used a bulb with a differnt voltage, (I listened to some bad advice)and ended up with smoke pouring out of my omeaga chromega b dichroiic enlarger. Any suggestions? Do I need a new enlarger? Can this one be fixed? does anyone know where to get bulbs? A new decent enlarger? I am aproffesional photographer, and I do all my own darkroom work, HELP!!!!!

-- Eve Henry (eehenry@yahoo.com), January 09, 1999

Answers

I don't know if you need a new enlarger or if yours can be repaired. Try Classic Omega Enlargers. This guy is very knowledgeable on Omega enlargers and he has nothing to gain from selling you a new one.

-- Jeff White (zonie@computer-concepts.com), January 09, 1999.

Did you open up the head and have a look? There may be no real damage, it may just need a little (maybe a lot of) cleaning and removal of the bad bulb to get it back in working order.

-- Brian C. Miller (a-bcmill@exchange.microsoft.com), January 11, 1999.

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-- you do (faeawd@sodid.com), January 19, 1999.

I would suggest you call Glazer's Photo in Seattle. They should be able to tell what you need to do. It would be a good idea to have your enlarger's model number, the type number of the bulbs, etc handy. I dealt with them for many years when I lived there and always found them helpful.

-- Tony Brent (ajbrent@mich.com), February 07, 1999.

Stick with the Harry Taylor suggestion. He's been an honest person in all my dealings with him.

-- Bryant Haynes (themark1@airmail.net), March 18, 1999.