bell and howell, filmosound 179

[Jack Larmet]

Looking for lamp/bulb, and small magnifying lens. It is a model C.

[Jeff Taylor]

I can't help you with either as I've thrown out all my Bell & Howell's, but the small magnifying lens you mention is called a condenser lens, and both that and the lamps are common from the 179 through the 399/8399 machines. Perhaps that will aid in your search. Perhaps Topbulb or Bulbdirect (on the web) would have the lamp. There used to be a small adaptor that would allow you to use the more common DDB style lamps instead of the relatively hard to locate ones with the spade used in Bell & Howells.