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Newest and Best Fluorescent light in my Collection! 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? Keywords: Indoor_Fixtures

Newest and Best Fluorescent light in my Collection!

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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Album name:Mike / My Collection
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streetlight98   [Oct 16, 2012 at 12:23 AM]
thanks! I think it's and awesome light too! Needs new paint though. Laughing
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Oct 16, 2012 at 12:29 AM]
Yeah, I think it would look much better in white.
joe_347V   [Oct 16, 2012 at 01:00 AM]
Nice light! I was thinking if you were going to repaint it, I would go for silver or grey on the outside and white on the inside. It seems a lot of vintage industrials had that colour scheme.
streetlight98   [Oct 16, 2012 at 01:35 AM]
I noticed the T17s, the F40T12 preheats, and this all have a blueish gray color on the outside and white inside. I want to keep the light as close to the original shade as possible though. I have leftover paint from when i painted the RS shoplite that will cover the inside of the reflector fine. The inside ballast channel on this thing is like brand new. Still has that beautiful flawless gloss to it, and since that paint is in perfect shape, it can help me find the closest color in spraypaint.
A_lights   [Oct 16, 2012 at 03:10 AM]
Wow great find!
Maybe some of the fluorescent collectors on LG can give helpful tips
chrislights71   [Oct 16, 2012 at 04:15 AM]
Nice oldie vintage lamp! Cool
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Oct 16, 2012 at 03:25 PM]
Yeah, VERY COOL!
Is the cut cord cloth wire?
joe_347V   [Oct 16, 2012 at 10:04 PM]
It looks cloth to me, I think most cords at that time were either rubber or cloth though.
streetlight98   [Oct 16, 2012 at 11:07 PM]
Thanks guys! I'm no longer active on the LG (too much work to post pics between two sites) so I'd have to get help from the fluorescent lovers here.

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.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Oct 16, 2012 at 11:42 PM]
Hmm I'm not sure...
Don't you ever check your LG account? I check both sites every day.
streetlight98   [Oct 16, 2012 at 11:51 PM]
Nope not really. I check it maybe every three months or so but not often.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Oct 16, 2012 at 11:59 PM]
If I were you I'd check more often...
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.
streetlight98   [Oct 21, 2012 at 06:08 PM]
This light has been painted and is now hanging in the laundry room! Very Happy Works like a champ!
joe_347V   [Oct 21, 2012 at 08:16 PM]
Nice! I guess you finally retired that T8 wraparound that used to be there?
streetlight98   [Oct 21, 2012 at 08:57 PM]
Yep. The T8 wrap will have a new home in my grandpa's basement in addition to the troffers down there. He recently moved some boxes (he had boxes literally up the ceinging in that spot before) and not it's too dark over there. I figured two F17T8s will be just enough light for the space. I've already attatched 4ft of romex to the T8 fixture so all i have to do is screw it into the beam in his basement and connect the other end of the romex to the neighboring troffer. 12AWG wires require me to use larger wirenuts than i normally use though lol.
traffic light1   [Nov 03, 2012 at 01:19 AM]
I have a 6ft t12 light.
GullWhiz   [Dec 03, 2012 at 04:24 PM]
NEC codes says if any old wiring is in a good condition it can be left alone and not need to be repced...even if wiring is originally used with tape and tar....plus leaving oringal wiring keels the value up
joe_347V   [Dec 03, 2012 at 04:26 PM]
I usually keep the original wiring in place unless it's either damaged or I need to replace the ballast. Even so, I tend to keep the removed wiring in a safe place.
A_lights   [Dec 03, 2012 at 06:26 PM]
Yeah same here unless if its cracked or something then I remove it
streetlight98   [Dec 03, 2012 at 06:58 PM]
Well, i replaced the wire to the starter since it was brittle and i had to remove the wire feeding the fixture since it was all cracked as well as remove the pull-chain since the wires were no good. That's probably the reason it was replaced... Anyways, i didn't bother to replace the pullchain since i don't need it so there's just an empty hole lol.

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