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One of the Non-Working Lights
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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One of the Non-Working Lights

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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GEsoftwhite100watts   [Apr 02, 2013 at 03:42 AM]
If you think shipping to Joseph is ridiculous imagine shipping one to Alaska! Laughing Shocked Rolling Eyes
Otherwise I'd ask for one of these if I was in a better position to accept fixtures...
joe_347V   [Apr 02, 2013 at 03:58 AM]
Well, $54 to ship a 4' light isn't that bad Razz , I once paid around $40 to ship three 8" glass lenses. Shocked The lenses were cheap and were the rare arrow type so it was still a good deal.
A_lights   [Apr 02, 2013 at 08:25 AM]
I would be interested in one or two Very Happy
streetlight98   [Apr 02, 2013 at 08:00 PM]
yeah i was surpised that i got 54 dollars too. at first i got 100 bucks when i typed in that it weighed 18 pounds and the box was bigger and the price pretty much went in half when i adjusted the demesions and weight. so the light is pretty close to that low price deal. hopefully the cheaper estimate is more accurate since I'd hate to box it all up and go to ship it and find out it costs 50 bucks more. Confused

@ aaron; check your PMs in a few. Cool
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Apr 03, 2013 at 02:33 AM]
Was a wall built over this light? I think I see the foil facing of insulation and and the 2X4 framing of a wall...
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.//
streetlight98   [Apr 03, 2013 at 02:39 AM]
i'm not sure. i think the wall is actually supporting the fixture. there's only five of them and two are spoken for so i think i'm keeping the rest but if you ever want a fluorescent fixture my family is apparently loaded with them so i could figure something out lol.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Apr 03, 2013 at 03:13 AM]
Yeah that sounds like a reliable/reasonable option...a F40 preheater is something on my "Want" list and has been since I started collecting!
streetlight98   [Aug 31, 2013 at 03:53 PM]
Well i returned yesterday. see new pic here. You can see one lamp was removed for some reason. The lamps don't flicker at all but the ballast hums loudly when i flick one of the switches down there. So this is connected. the ballast wouldn't hum if it didn't work would it? The lamps don't show the slightest sign of life. I wonder if bad starters would do that. The lamps don't even glow though. Judging be the srew spacings on the reflector, it has a longjohn ballast mounted on the reflector. Shocked Very Happy
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Dec 15, 2013 at 12:05 AM]
Yeah it might work...try crappy lamps on it first though like Altos or something...not anything vintage. I've seen this photo before but it never ceases to amaze me that there's a WALL built RIGHT OVER the fixture! Laughing Shocked Rolling Eyes And there's a pullchain light right next to it! Did you try switching lamps around that time?
Good luck though, is this one you're keeping or is this one going to Aaron or Joseph?
streetlight98   [Dec 15, 2013 at 12:43 AM]
i'm keeping this one. this is the one with the Sylvania CWP lamps as far as I know.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Dec 15, 2013 at 02:13 AM]
Okay I see...would the Daylight Altos have gone in the one behind this one?
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.
streetlight98   [Dec 15, 2013 at 03:42 PM]
yep the one behind this is the WWII-looking fixture, which would have gotten the daylight altos. Yeah it needs a nice new coat of paint (they all do). Aaron wants his original though so I'll give it a bath and send it his way when I finally get the lights lol. I'm keeping this one and the one that looks WWII-ish one. If the WWII one isn't really bad I might keep it original but if it's rusted I want to repaint it to better preserve it. I'm also keeping the two lamp F20T12 preheater fixture (the only one down there that's flush mount and not suspended) and that one looks like it can be left original (though it'll get a good scrubbin'). If it needs paint, I'll repaint it. The one above needs new paint though. The reflector paint is intact but it's yellowed over the years (well actually way back when, I don't think they had true-white paint so an off white may have been used).

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.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Dec 18, 2013 at 12:44 AM]
Yeah did your Aunt say it had at least one working tube after that?
streetlight98   [Dec 18, 2013 at 02:14 AM]
My uncle said "only one light in the basement works". I don't know if he meant one tube or one fixture...
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Dec 19, 2013 at 12:44 AM]
I'm looking at the endcaps on these spent lamps and they look like GE Mainlighters judging by the blackening and endcaps...
streetlight98   [Dec 19, 2013 at 12:45 AM]
the left one is a Sylvania lifeline. the right looks like it could be a GE.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Dec 19, 2013 at 01:02 AM]
I was thinking that judging by the blackening...it looks GE-mainlighter-ish.
streetlight98   [Dec 19, 2013 at 07:52 PM]
yeah they both seem to have blackend the same way. All the fixtures have Vicron starters and these two were also on the same ballast so maybe that's why they blackend the same way. It'll be interesting once I finally get all the lamps and fixtures here and finally get to test everything.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Dec 20, 2013 at 12:15 AM]
I don't think ballasts can make lamps blacken in a certain way (except for the accelearated rate of it on electronic instant-start ballasts). Laughing But yeah, good luck! I guess if you go over there you could TRY switching lamps and starters around though to get rid of some of the suspense... Laughing
joe_347V   [Dec 20, 2013 at 05:36 AM]
It's possible, I had a trigger start ballast with a weak cathode heating winding which make F20 lamps blacken really quickly so I suppose differences in cathode heating current could produce different blackening patterns.

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