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Newest and Best Fluorescent light in my Collection!
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Here's a beautiful 1X F40T12 preheater with a HPF oval shaped GE ballast and (something) Sylvania lampholders. The wiring connections were with TAPE that was "painted" with tar! Of course i replaced all the charrd cloth wires with new ones except for the ballast leads, which will be left alone. If needed i'll put electrical tape on any bad spots on the ballast leads.
Needless to say this workhorse functions properly with the Westie F40CW lamp and Hubbell FS-4 NEOSTART starter it came with. The lamp had a popped off end cap though. The glue is loose. It still works and isn't blackened. Would elmer's glue do the trick? I know Jace says gorrilla glue is industrial grade stuff but would household elmer's glue or wood glue work? I have extreme trouble putting the screws on the end caps back in. I'll have to enlarge the holes fo the screws after i scrub this baby down and get it ready for paint come this spring. It had a porcelin insulator on top and white sockets that are similar to Y-slot sockets but have a triangle opening with a circle in the middle. Could this be from the World War era?
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Maybe some of the fluorescent collectors on LG can give helpful tips
Is the cut cord cloth wire?
The wire on the outside of the fixture that is visable was rubber that was cracking apart. The very end is a brown lamp cord wire that's cut, which is taped to a cracked rubber cord that looks like a modern day extension cord except that the wires weren't color coded. The ones in the fixture ARE color coded though. This doesn't have a ground so it's from before the ground wire came out...
Also, would Elmer's Glue or wood glue work to fix the popped off endcap? The lamp still works and the glass isn't cracked (nor is the bakelite endcap itself) but the glue had failed.
Don't you ever check your LG account? I check both sites every day.
Some of my pics I don't have on here are on my LG account (ace100w120v) and vice versa.
There are some major florescent collectors on LG that can help you with this, so if I were you I'd be on there more often but it's up to you.