What was your most spectacular find in 2012? « on: December 30, 2012, 07:49:28 PM » Author: lantern_vision
Yep, I really would like to learn about your spectacular find of year 2012. Mine was a DISCO 2 x 55 w lps lantern that was found useless on top of a trash mountain. I have done my best to restore it and now it looks like a brand new fitting...
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	Re: What was your most spectacular find in 2012? « Reply #1 on: December 30, 2012, 11:06:52 PM » Author: mrboojay
For me it is my old F40T12 4 lamp rapid start fixture my church used to use until 1971. Picture
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	Re: What was your most spectacular find in 2012? « Reply #2 on: December 31, 2012, 01:00:15 AM » Author: dor123
Quote from: mrboojay on December 30, 2012, 11:06:52 PM For me it is my old F40T12 4 lamp rapid start fixture my church used to use until 1971. Picture I can't see anything in the picture. This is probably a fixture with two F40T12 HPF rapidstart ballasts, since there are no magnetic ballasts for more than two lamps.
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	Re: What was your most spectacular find in 2012? « Reply #3 on: December 31, 2012, 02:17:42 AM » Author: mrboojay
Sorry if you can't see anything, I thought it was a good discovery picture. It does have two ballasts: Picture  They are F40T12 HPF RS as well.
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	Re: What was your most spectacular find in 2012? « Reply #5 on: January 01, 2013, 02:38:16 AM » Author: DetroitTwoStroke
Mine was the old hardware store where I got this old Champion tube. I never did get back there, but hopefully I'll go back soon.
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	Re: What was your most spectacular find in 2012? « Reply #6 on: January 01, 2013, 05:48:09 PM » Author: icefoglights
Mine had to be this Sylvania HF-100.  I found some neat things in 2012, but I truly found this, hanging in an dilapidated old garage that is just looking for a way to fall.
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	Re: What was your most spectacular find in 2012? « Reply #7 on: January 01, 2013, 07:17:14 PM » Author: Silverliner
do you mean ebay or locally found in a thrift shop or trash pile or in some old building?
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	Re: What was your most spectacular find in 2012? « Reply #9 on: January 01, 2013, 10:01:02 PM » Author: Silverliner
well from local finds, i will say what I remember the best. -a pair of champion preheat-rapid start F40CWs -a pair of westinghouse ultralume 3000Ks -a pair of westy-made harmony house F40CWs inside etchers -a ge 20w white from the 40s (post mazda) -two duro-test 20w 4500 whites -4 luxor 40w vita-lite power twists -many many old incandescent bulbs, too many to count here but some important finds including finding a ge 100w bulb from 1959 with vertical filament, one of the first of its kind, made in oakland, ca, also found many old westy bulbs which I like, etc etc. -for ebay finds, the best ones I would say is a pair of ge mazda 20w greens from 1940, and a few nos GE A-H1 medium pressure mercury lamps. -for fixtures, i acquired a number of preheaters recently, will post pics later
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	Re: What was your most spectacular find in 2012? « Reply #10 on: January 02, 2013, 11:03:22 AM » Author: LightBulbFun
well here are some of my best findes of 2012 a GE AH-1 a 1890s incandesent a blue 2D lamp (that litrly was my last finde of 2012 it arived with a some other 2Ds on the 31 of dec ) a 28W 2D adapter a mazda neatline a 700W westy mercury lamp a cleer top 175W westy mercury lamp a cleer top 250W westy mercury lamp a copel of westy F4T5/G a westy F15T12/D and lots more lamps
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	Re: What was your most spectacular find in 2012? « Reply #13 on: January 05, 2013, 05:23:44 AM » Author: FrontSideBus
Thorn OQ1000 c/w CSI lamp!
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