Maintenance and LED conversion on a Vintage Fantasia Fiber-Optic Lamp. How To Lubricate the Motor.

I was hired to perform some mild repairs and maintenance on a Fantasia Fiber-Optic Lamp. In this video we take it apart and clean the fan and color wheel, convert it from halogen to LED saving 42.5 watts of energy usage and oil the motor bushings to reduce noise and improve performance of the rotation of the spray. Quick History of Fantasia Lamps http://frink.machighway.com/~edwardcr... http://frink.machighway.com/~edwardcr... "We started Electro Fiber Optics in November of 1967 in the second floor of an old wooden machine shop in Worcester Mass. We had left Mosaic Fabrications because it had been sold to Bendix, confusion was rampant (If the boss calls... Get his name) and also we were in our early 20's and itching to have our own company. From then until about 1971 or so, we built a new building in West Boylston Mass and did well by making fiber optic light distribution blocks for use in computers to read IBM 80 column punched cards. But, by about 1971, the floppy disk had been invented and punched cards went the way of the Dodo... Fast! Whoa, now we had no products! Luckily for us, it happened that a new company had been formed recently in New England which had five different divisions. One, in Southbridge Mass., was starting to make fiber optic lamps and one other, in Framingham Mass., was in the laser business. However, the laser division stepped on the toes of the giant Union Carbide Corporation in the form of alleged patent infringement, and all their resources were quickly used up fighting the lawsuits. This left the fiberoptic lamp portion of their business broke as well. I went to look over the operation with an eye toward buying it, but when I saw what little they had, we just bought parts ourselves and started to make lamps, although I have to admit that ours did look a LOT like the ones they had been making. We took the first 24 that we made, which were the basic Firefly model, to Spag's Discount Store in Shrewsbury Massachusetts. Anthony Spag Borgatti (Spelling?) was the first discounter in the U.S. and his motto was "No bags at Spag's" You had to bring your own bags and stuff was cheap. We asked him if we could put them on the shelf and he asked what we needed to get for them to which we replied "$23 each". He marked them at $24.88 retail. We took turns standing around to hear what people had to say about them and they were well received and sold out quickly, so we hurried to make 24 more and do it all again. Soon we realized that they might be the answer to our prayers. We hired Al Landes and his wife Lillian from New Jersey to market them and he knew his craft. He had a showroom in NYC and contacts all over the world. We sold tons of them in Japan, and the Lava folks sold them in Italy for us too. Spencer gifts was the really big outlet in the USA.... They would bring us a 50 foot truck trailer to fill and as soon as it was filled they'd replace it with another. Al kept beating up on us for new designs and products which is where the glitter lamp and the boxes came from. Surprisingly, all the sprays were trimmed by hand in the dark by people using barber's clippers but the clippers didn't last all that long cutting glass. When we left what was by then Valtec to form Fiberoptics Technology the lamps were still going strong, but subsequent to that, the lamp business was sold to Lenny Scrivo (Vicon) who moved production offshore. Later, FTI sold a company we had purchased to Lenny, and about 3 years ago we purchased some of the fiber drawing equipment from the defunct Vicon Fiberoptics. Funny how life changes......." -Origins of Fantasia and Introduction from Keith Knowlton - President of Fiberoptics Technology, Inc. Fiber-optic color change lamp Fantasia Centurion Lamp