Sometimes fixtures are litteraly begging you to save them. This one was!

Here's an unexpected find from the recycling centre! Went there today to dispose of a dozen of 8ft /HO tubes, and I took a look in the scrap metal bin, which has been emptied yesterday ... "Meh, pretty much nothing today"

BUT, there was this familiar rectangular metal box shape among all the junk! Since the bin was almost empty, the fixture was in the very bottom, half soaked in the brown, dirty water of the recent rain, and with some gooey, black grease covering one of the endplates. Dude, a fixture laying that way is litteraly begging you to save it!! If I had my camera with me, I would've photographed the scene!

Any respectable lighting collector could simply not leave a fixture in that condition behind! But anyway... The fixture here is shown with original lamps and starters. Both lamps work, but are etchless. One of the starters is a Spec. N°6, which still works good. The other starter had a shorted capacitor. It isn't a Spec. N°6, but somehow had a paper cap as well. I simply removed the burnt cap and the starter now works perfectly! The starter casing still has the hardened pool of wax inside though LOL.