Discontinued JCC Tosca metal-halide track fitting with a 12° spot beam, in silver and white — 160 units of new-old-stock surplus, held ex-warehouse Leicester, UK. A heavy commercial HID track luminaire supplied as the housing only; UK lamp bans apply to the lamp, not the fitting.
Held as UK stock, ex-warehouse Leicester. This SKU is one line within the JCC whole-lot commercial-lighting parcel (~8,585 units, GBP 8,500 ex-VAT for the entire lot), listed here for reference only. It is not sold separately; the parcel is supplied as a single lot, to trade.
Box-label photo evidence — JC88018 Tosca metal-halide 12° spot track fitting, silver and white.
The JCC JC88018 is a Tosca metal-halide (HID) track fitting with a tight 12° spot beam — a heavy, high-quality commercial track luminaire built for the long-throw, colour-accurate accent light that premium retail and display lighting demanded before LED. The narrow 12° optic is a specialist tool: it puts a concentrated, high-punch beam onto a single product, mannequin or feature from a distance, which is exactly what fashion, jewellery, automotive and gallery lighting designers used metal-halide track for. This holding spans both the silver (76 units) and white (84 units) bodies and is serious hardware at roughly 2.2–2.5 kg per fitting. It is discontinued, ex-distribution surplus: the Tosca metal-halide head is off JCC’s current list, so these 160 units are a finite closeout.
The stock is genuine new-old-stock (NOS) — 160 unused units carried over from JCC distribution and photographed against their box labels for the buyer pack. Each fitting measures roughly 32.5 × 36.5 × 20 cm (a small number are close at 33 × 36.5 × 19 cm). It is supplied as the housing only — the metal-halide lamp is not included. This is a clean legal position: the UK lamp restrictions that removed certain discharge lamps from new supply apply to the lamp, not to the luminaire. The fitting itself carries no ban and is freely resellable; the buyer supplies whatever lamp or module suits the intended use.
Because it ships without a lamp, the JC88018 is equally attractive as an LED retrofit chassis. Metal-halide track heads of this build quality are routinely re-lamped or re-cored with high-output LED modules, letting an operator keep a proven, rugged, well-finished housing while shedding the running cost, warm-up delay and ballast maintenance of ageing HID gear. That gives a reseller two distinct markets from one line: operators who still run and maintain metal-halide track and want a matched spare, and retrofit firms who want a heavy commercial spotlight body to convert to LED.
For the trade, a substantial, well-finished commercial HID track luminaire in unused condition at clearance economics is a high-value line, not throwaway clearance. The silver-and-white split covers the common commercial ceiling finishes, and at 160 units the holding is deep enough to matter to a wholesaler, exporter or specialist lighting contractor. As a discontinued item it also carries a real specification-matching benefit for sites still running Tosca metal-halide track, where a matched 12° spot head is otherwise difficult to source.
Commercially, the JC88018 is offered as UK surplus / liquidation stock for trade and resale only. It is not sold as a stand-alone line: it forms part of Austral Prime's JCC commercial lighting whole-lot bulk package — roughly 8,585 units across fittings, infrastructure and architectural hardware, supplied as a single lot for GBP 8,500 (ex-VAT) ex-warehouse Leicester. The whole-lot structure lets one buyer take the entire discontinued JCC range at clearance economics and then place the individual lines — metal-halide track heads, downlights, spotlights, track — into their own retail, maintenance, refurbishment or export channels at trade margin. UK supply is subject to VAT at the standard rate (reclaimable by VAT-registered buyers); exports removed from the UK may be zero-rated on valid evidence.
The buyers who move stock like this are electrical wholesalers and factors, lighting contractors and shopfitters, JCC/Tosca-system maintenance specialists, HID-to-LED retrofit firms, pallet and job-lot liquidation traders, and export resellers shipping into markets where metal-halide track lighting remains in service. A rugged, lamp-free commercial spot luminaire lists well against searches such as ‘metal halide track spotlight’, ‘JCC Tosca 12 degree spot’ or ‘HID track fitting housing’, and the retrofit optionality broadens the buyer pool considerably.
A word on the narrow 12° optic, because it is what makes this a specialist rather than a general line. Most track spotlights flood a broad area; a true 12° spot throws a concentrated column of light that holds its punch across a large distance, which is what high-ceiling retail atriums, museum display cases and feature-lit architecture actually require. Fittings built for that job are comparatively scarce, so a matched holding of 160 genuine narrow-spot Tosca heads answers a demand that ordinary clearance stock cannot. Operators maintaining existing metal-halide display schemes will pay for the correct spare, and LED-retrofit specialists will pay for the rugged body to convert — two markets, one line. Supplied as the bare housing, it carries no lamp-ban exposure whatsoever, since the restrictions fall on the discharge lamp and not the luminaire. For a reseller, a heavyweight, hard-to-source specialist spotlight is a margin line, not a fire-sale one.
If the JC88018 or the wider JCC fittings group fits your book, the full per-SKU manifest — quantities, finishes, locations, dimensions and box-label photography — is available on enquiry. Title and risk pass on dispatch from Leicester; buyers collect or arrange their own freight. Sale is ‘as is’, on documentary (not third-party audited) evidence, with photographs supplied ahead of commitment.
The JC88018 Tosca metal-halide track fitting is supplied as part of the JCC whole-lot parcel. Register interest in the lot or request the full trade manifest and photographs.