Progress is costing me money!

My trusty magnifying lamp has finally died!  Well to be accurate the fluorescent tube has failed the rest of the lamp is fine.   No problem though, I changed the tube when the original one failed a few years ago.  This time though, problem!  The type of tube is no longer in production and I cant find a replacement on line as everyone has sold out.  I spoke to Shesto Ltd (the maker of my lamp) who once again were very helpful.  They explained that all manufacturers have gone over to LED daylight lamps as they are more energy efficient and last much longer, up to 30,000 hours in fact.  Which is great but means I have to buy an entire new lamp rather than just replace the tube.

It's a dead lamp, gone to join the choir invisible (and yes we are ready for Halloween)

The range of new magnifier lamps is vast.  Most offer all sort of options I don't really need such as changing between primary colours, dimmer switches and the adjusting the range of colour temperatures (which reflects different daylight tones from a more blue white to a more yellow white tone) well that last one might be useful.  If they were still available a replacement bulb would have cost me around £16 plus an hour of my time doing the change over.  A new lamp will be between £30 and £60 for a similar specification.  The difference isn't huge but it is the cost of quite a few 6mm figures!  It's not that I'm cheap (alright you know me....I'm cheap) it's just that I don't like having to throw out a perfectly good item because of technology updates.  For now I will have to use an ordinary desk lamp until I decide which of the various replacement options I will go with.  Recommendations will be gratefully accepted.