Thanks!
It is eating up my F4T5 6500k and BLB tube though, I won't be using it much.

Nice work.! 
Gaffer tape has lots of uses. 

Here they are: base up and base down versions 

And where are the pictures?

@ RRK:
Thanks to Tim, we have two of the DC lamps, one cap up and one cap down. 

Better that than to have to recycle the lamp. 
Lamps were made to be litted. 

I had one of those, originally it was dimmable, but the dimmer failed and I replaced it with a standard floor switch.

Same here in Romania most people don't know what a cfl is so they call it economical bulb.
In villages before mass ledzation old (...) made fixtures that used to run mv lamps had their ballast ripped out and instead there was installed the cheapest Chinese cfl that was dim af and made the fixtures look bad.
When the cfls disappeared they started putting cheap leds in them that obligatory had to be 6500k.
Here's a floodlight that was cflizied

Today I made a F4T5 fixture with a 5w cfl ballast. The capacitor was too tall so I put it outside. I also added a switch to the cord and a neon indicator.

The problem here is how stupid hot they get  , I once ran a 90watt SOX tube outside on a concrete flag, I ran it for about 2 hours, then dumped it into a bucket of cold water just to see what would happen?
The resulting explosion set off next doors car alarm, a blew shards of red hot glass into my leg! 

I really wouldn’t advise running it out of its jacket to be honest?,
Speaking from experience!