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Would I need a filter to compensate for the fact that it would create a more red light or would it make no difference?

No, at standard B&W it just would mean a little bit longer exposure time, and if you would use contrast variable paper, a slightly different setting. But the mains voltage has similar effect, and as you do not work along a certain standard, but to your very own it does not matter anyway. At colour printing you would have to calibrate your filtering to any enlarger anway, and you would not use this enlarger for colour printing either, too clumsy in filtering to modern standard.
Any filtering (including for contrast variable papers) must be done under the lens, as your enlarger does not have a filter drawer above the film stage. But there are filters and holders for beneath the lens.
 
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If anyone has information on this very Pelco firm, please come up.
(Likely we shall have to wait for Ian to chime in.)
 
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Hi all, interesting to see others with this oddball enlarger!! I picked one up with some Minox enlargers a while ago. but the Pelco was put to one side for a while.
I came to take another look today, and yes mine also has the additional column with the 90 degree bracket, BUT also there is an attached bracket which ends in a flat plate which carries a removable threaded mount.
anyone any thoughts? I am at a loss as to how you would use this additional bracket. Will post an image later!

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Most likely that bracket is intended to mount on it a camera for reprography.
 

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Most likely that bracket is intended to mount on it a camera for reprography.

Hi - can't see how it could mount a camera - (see pics attached) the thread size is approx 40mm so doesn't even seem a standard size mount? The aluminium mounting plate is removable - just got me totally foxed!!
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You made me think of a mount 90° against the enlarger-head mount, with some tripod thread. By this Iwas completely off...


"Thread diameter approx. 40mm"

This may then be 39mm and thus take the body of many RF ans some SLR cameras. The fact that the thread itself can be twisted not only makes it easy to mount the body, but also to adjust it for the angle.
If then under that plate a bellows or helicoid is placed with the enlarger lens you got a reprographic set-up for SLR's. For RF's though then some sort of ingeneous scale or a seperate finder would be needed.
 

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Well I guess you could mount a camera body to the plate but there is no way to mount anything underneath?? Perhaps there is another attachment to this arm, which I don't have?? Who knows - a mystery!!!
 

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It looks sorta like a Federal enlarger clone, but appears to be better built (which wouldn't take much) and it doesn't have the glass negative carrier. You'll have to take it completely apart and give it a good clean, and whatever bulb the Federals use should work. If you're lucky it also has a 39mm lens thread, although changing that to whatever you wish looks easy enough. I had to make a lens board to put Nikkor lenses on my Federal and it was a simple job.

That doubled up post for the head is interesting. It also looks like one more thing to get square and straight in relation to the base plate.
 
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