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Author Topic: Help with a Peerless Magnarc Buck Wilson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 894 From: St. Joseph MO, USA Registered: Sep 2010 posted 10-24-2018 09:44 PM                      |  IP: Logged Gary Wachter Film Handler Posts: 21 From: Coppell, TX, USA Registered: Jul 2010 posted 10-26-2018 06:38 PM                      |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 10-26-2018 07:05 PM                       Jack Roe used to carry them. Don't know if they still do.  |  IP: Logged Will Kutler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1506 From: Tucson, AZ, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 10-28-2018 03:48 AM                     Thanks for the photo, Gary. What model is yours? Mine do not have that casting date number and it looks like the casting in itself is different. Both of mine are early (low 4000 serial number) Magnarcs. Based off of their configuration as-well-as 1st and 2nd edition book publishing dates will date mine to between 1935-1937.  |  IP: Logged Gary E Fenner Film Handler Posts: 8 From: Louisville, KY United States Registered: Oct 2018 posted 10-28-2018 06:48 AM                        Thanks Buck for posting my pictures for me. Will, I do not know the model # nor the year of manufacture. They do not have the raised lettering either. I was hoping to nail down the date to know for sure if my dad ran these projectors when he was in high school. He graduated in 1941 and went straight into WWII. Will...... thanks for the dates you gave me, but it puts into question whether my dad used these or not.  |  IP: Logged Will Kutler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1506 From: Tucson, AZ, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 10-28-2018 08:26 PM                     Hi Gary Yours appear to be a Magnarc Type "E". If you look at the rear metal identification plate that you did photograph and post, this should be between "The" and "Peerless", specifically located between T and P. This is not visible on your uploaded picture. Yours also has the amp meter, which was an "add-on" extra. The trim along the sheetmetal top will either be the cast storm grates or a pair of metal strips resembling automotive body side moulding. Posting a photo of the non-operator side...specifically the fuse block area will also help me to pin down a potential time of manufacture. That aluminum casting that meets the door lower edge was changed...the fuse block part of the casting was changed.  |  IP: Logged Gary E Fenner Film Handler Posts: 8 From: Louisville, KY United States Registered: Oct 2018 posted 10-28-2018 09:02 PM                        Thanks Will. It may be a while before I get that info. The projectors are about 150 miles from me, so I will rely upon a friend to go and take some more pictures. I will let you know.  |  IP: Logged Emiel De Jong Film Handler Posts: 48 From: Geldrop The Netherlands Registered: Mar 2007 posted 10-29-2018 06:05 AM                     I have a type "G" that has the exact same lettering "J.E.M.CO. 10-1-46". It has serial number 42207.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 10-29-2018 12:26 PM                       I wonder if that was just to differentiate that particular mold or part style? Or is it a part #? Those were probably cast several hundred at a time.  |  IP: Logged Will Kutler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1506 From: Tucson, AZ, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 10-29-2018 07:18 PM                     Interestingly, I have attempted to find historical biographical information and photographs on J.E. McAuley, and have come up nil. Old patent records are available. Many of the personalities who developed projection and sound equipment have been written about in trade publications such as "International Projectionist". But not J.E. McAuley....however There was a J.E. McAuley who was a Foundry Engineer: "has been appointed assistant general manager of the works of the Birdsboro Steel Foundry & Machine Company, Birdsboro, Pa. He was formally sales agent, and has been with the company about four years, going there from the Solid Steel Casting Company. He had previously been employed by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and the Standard Steel Works Company." Iron Age, Vol 91 Page 627 Jan-June 1913 University of Michigan Library: Iron Age-Google Books. I do wonder if this is our man? Think about it: the Magnarc cross-section and other castings sure have a strong aesthetic resemblance to steam locomotive design!  |  IP: Logged Gary E Fenner Film Handler Posts: 8 From: Louisville, KY United States Registered: Oct 2018 posted 10-29-2018 08:58 PM                        Will....... thanks for the effort. That's why I came to this group. I did quite a bit of searching on my own and couldn't find anything. I figured some of you in here would have to know more than me.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-30-2018 08:38 AM                     Years ago I was told by one of the retired engineers that McAuley was a projectionist who was tired of the difficulty cleaning the big Hall and Connoly condenser lamps and how difficult they were to disassemble and he started to produce his own lamphouse. The original peerless was a low intensity reflector arc. Later he aquired the Hall and Connoly condenser arc patents and produced the Hycandescent lamphouse  |  IP: Logged Steve Roberts Film Handler Posts: 52 From: Whitchurch Shropshire UK Registered: Jul 2016 posted 11-01-2018 12:52 AM                     I have also restored several Peerless Magnarc's over the years. Now in the UK it is hard to find a peerless that has not been converted to xenon lamp. In the UK we were lucky as we had the American Peerless and the English. Magnarc's were made in the UK by Kelvin Hughes of Glasgow. The most noticeable difference being the negative carbon adjustment, on the American it was 2 nuts whereas on the Kelvin Hughes it is two livers, one at the top for up and down, the other at the bottom for left and right. When I fit a filament lamp into a Peerless or any carbon arc lamp I fit a 6mm steel bar in the negative carbon carriage with a lamp holder attached as I find this the best way to get the lamp in focus G. B. Kalee made a copy of a peerless they called the Regal for which it is said they were sued by Kelvin Hughes.  |  IP: Logged Gary Wachter Film Handler Posts: 21 From: Coppell, TX, USA Registered: Jul 2010 posted 11-02-2018 11:43 PM                     Steve, could you please post a photo of the lamp mounting arrangement you employed? I tried this on several occasions and could not eliminate the uneven illumination from the filament which is spread out over a much larger area than the arc.  |  IP: Logged

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