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How many precious lamps have you lost in your possession, be it accidentally breaking it, accidentally dump it, or it's gone missing etc. I have been looking around for my 1983 SOX for three days, couldn't find it, I don't know where it went, another one is an elliptical coated 1000W HPS broke during renovation, partly my fault as it was on a table and we was moving a large furniture out, while on its way out we hit the table and the lamps drops  . Now it's 5th day I'm still mad about the missing 1983 SOX, I don't remember I was grieving this much when I lost my $1000 mobile phone. Horyshet man that feels absolutely terrible. |
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I’ve broken many lamps in the past, but the one that bugged me the most was accidentally dropping the very first discharge lamp that I ever bought, (a Thorn 80 watt mercury lamp), it rolled out of the attic hatch, but instead of hitting the soft landing carpet, it made a b line like a heat seeking missile to a tin of shoe polish on top of the stairs! Gutted! |
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| No way in hell I will find another one in NOS condition with the original packaging intact, from the look of things, seems like I will never get over it. It's like a void in your heart that will never be filled again.
Still bothered, to make the matter worse, the lamp has never been lit, not even once. Man I'm feeling like burning some coal lol took me so long to find them and after nearly five years of possession, they just gone like that. Rant
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I cracked the stem on this lovely old 120V 1000W GE lamp from 1950 when I forgot the difference between E39 and E40 lampholders   He's still in one piece though (although no longer usable ) and holds pride of place on the shelf above our TV in the living room  I really cried buckets over that lamp, though. I'd had it for 40+ years before I had a big enough step-down transformer to light it |
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Now I trying to trace back on what I did wrong, one of the possibility is that I packed it up two years ago I may have mistaken one of the bags as the trash bag (how the f did I made mistake like that) and shove some huge objects into it and head to the dumpster with the SOX in it!! If not then I have no idea how it went missing. It may sounds funny that I have no mood to do anything else now, I treated it's age as something money can't buy, it's so precious that it survived this long (almost 40 years) and came this far for me to find it and become the owner. I never really cared about newer lamps, the 80s ones especially NOS were extremely difficult to obtain and are super rare. RIP SOX 1983-2022  Godammit I gonna drink myself to sleep, hopefully tomorrow it won't bother me anymore. |
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| It not end of road. I find my self it a lot easier to find Vintage Sox lamps like one u have here in the USA. On US ebay from time to time. Sox Came in the US in late 1970s most of lights around here
Saw 2 or 3 relamps. Sox were never was super popular but it was around in the US so there are still lamps that surface up from independance lamp shop from that era.
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It not end of road. I find my self it a lot easier to find Vintage Sox lamps like one u have here in the USA. On US ebay from time to time. Sox Came in the US in late 1970s most of lights around here
Saw 2 or 3 relamps. Sox were never was super popular but it was around in the US so there are still lamps that surface up from independance lamp shop from that era.
Thanks for the heads up bro, I'll change the country on ebay to US to see if I could find them, a few months ago I saw one up for sale, it could be the 1984 version as it has a round tube end but someone bought it, same rose pink packaging. |
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| yes I've broken quite a few. I'm a lot more cautious nowadays.
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| My whole week is ruined bro, time will heal but it's still bothering me when I lit my SOX lamp. Not as bothered if its easily available like the post-2010 lamps. The only old lamp in my possession that came close to it's build quality is the Philips made 55W SOX for the japanese market during the late eighties that still have the metal supports for the arc tube, you will laugh at the build quality of the recent one when you put them side by side to compare.
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| I tripped over and accidently smashed my pink Toshiba F40T10 fluorescent tube the day after I found it and was heartbroken at first but then felt better when I told myself that I'd rather be at home cleaning up the shattered glass than be laying in a hospital bed with broken bones.
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