I say relamping time!

nah. no point to it since the lights will be coming down in a matter of months. no one's living there yet. when my uncle redoes the basement i'm pretty sure these fixtures are going so that means i get them. hopefully the lamps too since they're all vintage for the most part. (60s-70s daylight sylvania lifelines, an 80s-90s Sylvania GTE 40W CW lamp, and an pre-alto philips lamp as shown above.

GET THEM! GET THEM! SAVE THEM!

do worry, i'll do my best. It'll be pretty easy too lol. I just hope i get the lamps too.

Can you ask them to save the tubes too even though they're EOL since they're vintage? That might increase your chances...although worst case scenario it's Sylvania /CWP, Altos, or GE Ecolux lamps...personally (and I know this will sound strange) I think the green ends would look cool in a fixture like this!

i'll ask them to save the lamps but i'll be throwing out any bad tubes unless someone wants them.

Yeah I know that feeling very well...
I think the daylight lamps are the best part! If it were me there would be Daylight Deluxe tubes in there or GE Chroma 50 tubes...

yeah this is the first time i've seen vintage daylight tubes used. usually all i see is cool white.

That's why I feel like my GE Mainlighters are so rare...they're warm white. I'd kill for some cool white and daylight versions though...

what era ae the mainlighters from? what do they look like? i'm thinking i may have seen them before but never noticed? was that just GE's tradmark for fluorescents or was there something special about them?

They were some of the first 20,000 hour F40s (15,000 for preheat). F40s before that were only rated 7,500 hours.
Some of mine are from May 1979 at the Jackson, Mississippi factory...not sure about the others.

The GE Mainlighter also replaced the 3 plus and 3 series F40s from GE. I have a cool white one that's made in Canada.

A Mainlighter or a 3?
Funny you should say that, because earlier today I was thinking of this pic and it's comment thread and realized I should have mentioned the 3 and 3 plus lamps...
Did they have the 3s in Canada?

this has been restored, it's hanging in my laundry room (in place of the single lamp unit, which is going to stay in the corner of the utility room (not hooked up) leaning against the wall for now... This thing has a rare long john type ballast! it works like a champ too. thr starters are good but are a little troublesome at times and won't start one of the lamps. they didn't give me the lamps that were in this but my aunt said she thinks they're still around. the other fixtures are still up. this was removed because the pipework needed some maintenance above this fixture. it had ceramic wirenuts for the incoming cord too. and no it doesn't have plunger sockets.they're white douchnut/Y-slot combos with screw terminals. the cloth wiring is in great shape too.

@Andy read my comment again...

Cool, can you post pics on LG for us?
What did you use for lamps?

yep i posted pics. i used the two GE 3500K eco luxes that i have. one was used in the single lamp unit and the other was unused until now.

Yeah I saw the other pics, cool! Glad to see it went to a good home. Good thing I'm not there, I would've been offering quite a bit of money for this light! But, congrats! You're lucky to have easy access to vintage fluorescent fixtures around you!

Yeah i didn't know these ballasts were rare. I have not clue what ballasts the other fixtures have besides the fact that they're 120V magnetic preheat and each run two 4ft T12 40W lamps lol. Yeah I was certainly born into the right family lol. Technically they're my step-aunt and step-uncle's lights too, not directly related to me but I sure have luck. Luck of the Irish i guess? lol

I guess...

Anyway I didn't mention this until now but I came across similar fixtures with the same colour scheme (grey/white) at Restore three years ago and now I regret not buying one at the time. They were RS though so I guess the oldest they could be is late 50s-early 60s. It had starter knockouts at the side so I could easily convert it to preheat.