A decent portion of my collection was stolen. « on: May 30, 2022, 11:53:05 AM » Author: HomeBrewLamps
So I had some of my stuff stored in a garage at my old house. Because I didn't have space for it yet. Well on Saturday I went to go grab some stuff and the garage was completely cleared. Along with bulbs, I lost tools and a moped. While this is rather unfortunate. I DID not lose any super rare lamps. I still have my colored fluorescents, the Westinghouse X Lamp, the medium pressure AH1, the C phosphored and W phosphored mercury lamps. And what not else. But this has revealed to me that I no longer find it worth it to stock hundreds of lamps. I still have a ton of 175 watt mercury lamps, 35 watt sodiums. 55 watt low pressure sodiums and 70 watt halides. And I think I will just stick it out with these and stop collecting burner bulbs. I've been needing to downsize my things anyway and I guess this is just luck/karmas way of speed tracking that. It's funny how right angryhorse is. Although it's not so much that I've lost interest in the technologies themselves. But having hundreds of bulbs laying around taking up storage.
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	Re: A decent portion of my collection was stolen. « Reply #1 on: May 30, 2022, 11:59:50 AM » Author: Andy
Sorry to hear that you had stuff stolen!  Glad though that you did not lose the rare lamps.
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	Re: A decent portion of my collection was stolen. « Reply #2 on: May 30, 2022, 12:25:01 PM » Author: Econolite03
I’m sorry man, whoever stole them should go _____ themselves.
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	Re: A decent portion of my collection was stolen. « Reply #3 on: May 30, 2022, 12:42:51 PM » Author: Rommie
That's a bummer, you need to keep an eye on eBay or wherever and see if they come up for sale anywhere
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	Re: A decent portion of my collection was stolen. « Reply #4 on: May 30, 2022, 03:01:19 PM » Author: Lightingguy1994
Wow thats really unfortunate to hear, I hope theres a lead on getting it back. As if there are people who steal lighting equipment. This is my biggest fear and is why I have not felt comfortable in offsite storage for my lights.
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	Re: A decent portion of my collection was stolen. « Reply #6 on: May 30, 2022, 07:12:32 PM » Author: HPS_250
That’s a shame to hear about, I wasn’t really even aware that people would be interested in stealing lighting equipment. I agree that fixtures were probably taken for scrap value but I’m not really sure why they took lamps. If you don’t end up being able to get any of that stuff back, at least you still have your rare lamps and especially the Westinghouse /X. Sorry about the moped and tools in that garage too.
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	Re: A decent portion of my collection was stolen. « Reply #7 on: May 30, 2022, 11:13:03 PM » Author: wide-lite 1000
Sounds to me like someone just cleared out the garage . Scrappers would have only taken metal and thieves would have only taken things that were valuable/easy to sell . The fact that they took everything means that someone just emptied out the garage.
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	Re: A decent portion of my collection was stolen. « Reply #9 on: May 31, 2022, 07:27:46 PM » Author: 108CAM
I'm sorry to hear that part of your collection was stolen but I'm very happy that all the rare stuff and the Westy /x lamp are safe.
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	Re: A decent portion of my collection was stolen. « Reply #10 on: May 31, 2022, 11:12:19 PM » Author: xmaslightguy
Sorry to hear that ------------------ Tools & a moped I can understand someone stealing, but I can't see why anyone would bother with a bunch of old lights...
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	Re: A decent portion of my collection was stolen. « Reply #11 on: June 01, 2022, 06:25:41 AM » Author: Rommie
I've never understood the criminal mentality. People work hard to earn the money to buy stuff, what gives anyone the right to just take it..?
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	Re: A decent portion of my collection was stolen. « Reply #13 on: June 15, 2022, 11:09:22 PM » Author: bulb_tester2009
I had no reason to steal the lamps I was still using . Unless it's the tubes they knock out or throw away, I'll take them if they're intact.
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