Good morning fellow lighting nerds! So, I was thinking about trying to install some tube holders and stuff in the ceiling in my shed so I Can finaly try out some of my 6 foot, 70W sylvania luxline plus 865's. I unfortunately do not have any fixtures for these tubes, and I highly doubt I will be able to find any because they appear to be really rare in terms of size here. But what I do have, are 3 ballasts intended for use in sign ligting or maybe for suntanning rooms. They have push on tube sockets that hold themselves onto the tubes, and you hold the tubes with some metal clips that you can screw onto any surface, so I was thinking about simply mounting two of them in the ceiling Two of these 6 foot tubes would fit just about perfectly inside my shed lenghtwise! I have 10 of them that I bought a long time ago , and still havent done more than tested on the bench. So I thought that could be fun. I only have 865 coloured ones right now, but I was thinking about purchasing some 840 ones from eBay. But there are not many available, and I do not *really* need them. so if any of you guys want to grab them I can let them slide I already have 10, afterall, and I suspect they will last a bloody long time. It would just have been nice to have 840 coloured ones, but I also really like 865 so hard decision!

But as I looked at these tubes and the gear I have for them I started wondering if these tube lenghts are really unusual, because I have never seen many of them, at least not where I live. and I have never seen many for sale on ebay or anywhere else for that matter, I just happened to see some for sale today. I havent decided if I will purchase them or not yet, I am a little worried about how the shipment will go because such long tubes are surely hard to deal with in shipping.

Just my random thoughts again,