Bill,
The smaller vertical cameras use a flourescent bulb light box for transmission reproductions. Larger verticals and most horizontal cameras have a transluscent copyboard and the lamps pivot around the copyboard to backlight it. I would convert one of these to a cold light of some sort. The original lamps are HOT!
I talked with a graphic arts printing supply rep. about 15 years ago and he said that when they got a repro camera turned into them in trade, they just cut them up for scrap metal since digital reproduction was replacing them and they couldn't resell them.
Repair parts are to the point of having to be custom made. Fortunately, most of them are built like tanks.
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