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One of the Non-Working Lights
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I'm not sure if it's dead or if it's just not connected to power. It doesn't flicker the slightest though the lamps appear pretty spent. Notice that one of the sockets appears to be newer. When i get this i'll try to find a black one to match it or i may just hand-paint the backside of the socket black to match the others. For fixtures with broken and or mismatched sockets, i'll be combining all the best parts together to make fixtures raging from best conditon to worst and will be repainting them from best condition to worst.
You can see the fixture is a little rusty from being in the damp basement. The lamps also appear to be Sylvania lifelines, probably daylight lamps like the one that slightly works. i didn't touch any of the lights though, just took pics. When my uncle and crew remodel the basement (after the rest of the house is shapened up and they can move in) i think he'll be getting rid of all the fluorescent lights and rewiring the pullchains so that they all come on with the switch. Maybe he'll put in more light (aka totally rewire the basement with two lamp F32T8 strip lights, like i'd probably do. anyways, I asked if i could have any and all lights removed (even non-fluorescent ones) since i'll either clean/restore them and sell them or gut them for parts. The fluorescents will not be gutted.
They will all be restored (unless they're in really good condition) and if i don't keep all of them I will sell them to you guys though the lights would have to be picked up since i will not ship something this large. too expensive and too large; i'd never find a box. If i do sell them, the lights will be listed at: mccannlighting.weebly.com and i will make a post in the forum. I'm not taking requests or anythinng as i don't know how things will unfold. Anyways, I forgot to tell them to please save the lamps... I'll have to ask them the next time i see them. the basement is last on their to-do list so there's no rush.
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Otherwise I'd ask for one of these if I was in a better position to accept fixtures...
@ aaron; check your PMs in a few.
If you end up not selling a bunch of these I might be interested in one at a future time...unfortunately right now I am unable to pay for shipping something like this/have limited space/etc. But in a couple years when I have my own place I'd want one or more if they were still available/for sale.//
Good luck though, is this one you're keeping or is this one going to Aaron or Joseph?
The reflector looks like it's in pretty good shape, but the end looks like it has some surface rust issues. Nothing a McCann Lighting restoration won't fix though.
There are two screws in the center of the reflector that are spaced as far apart as the two ends of a long-john style ballast so for some odd reason, I think this fixture's ballast is reflector-mounted (and it's a long john style!). And it's very noisey too but supposedly it works with at least one lamp.