Looking for help from anyone who is about to throw out a DUKA or who has still got one which is not going to be repaired.
My DUKA 10's sodium light went the other night. You may have seen my post under the thread on Darkroom safelights for colour processing. I was able to get another secondhand bulb from Nova today for a very reasonable price. It appeared to be their last in stock. It may or may not last of course. There's no way of telling how many hours use it has had.
Anyway in trying to install the bulb I noticed that the knob on the outside you set for light intensity has a broken fork. This fork holds the aluminium arm which operates the hood over the bulb to open or close the hood. Nova doesn't have any spare parts.
Is anyone willing to send me the knob. DUKA users if they have looked inside their DUKAs will know what I am talking about. It's the top knob not the lower slide which is used to mark where you need to return the knob when say going back to colour from B&W light intensity.
As part of the knob arrangement there is a small rectangular aluminium bit inside the plastic sliding arrangement inside the large bowl which looks like a tiny letterbox. Behind this is a spring which is bowed and like a rectangle with rounded corners. Mine seems to have split.
So its the knob I am particularly interested in but if it was easier then I'd take the whole knob arrangement.
I am willing to pay for this part and postage of course.
Thanks
Pentaxuser
My DUKA 10's sodium light went the other night. You may have seen my post under the thread on Darkroom safelights for colour processing. I was able to get another secondhand bulb from Nova today for a very reasonable price. It appeared to be their last in stock. It may or may not last of course. There's no way of telling how many hours use it has had.
Anyway in trying to install the bulb I noticed that the knob on the outside you set for light intensity has a broken fork. This fork holds the aluminium arm which operates the hood over the bulb to open or close the hood. Nova doesn't have any spare parts.
Is anyone willing to send me the knob. DUKA users if they have looked inside their DUKAs will know what I am talking about. It's the top knob not the lower slide which is used to mark where you need to return the knob when say going back to colour from B&W light intensity.
As part of the knob arrangement there is a small rectangular aluminium bit inside the plastic sliding arrangement inside the large bowl which looks like a tiny letterbox. Behind this is a spring which is bowed and like a rectangle with rounded corners. Mine seems to have split.
So its the knob I am particularly interested in but if it was easier then I'd take the whole knob arrangement.
I am willing to pay for this part and postage of course.
Thanks
Pentaxuser