I may have struck paydirt! There's a surplus warehouse in Syracuse that may have the glassware I am looking for. When I spoke to the guy, he told me he'll sell them to me for up to $20 a pop. Oh, and I won't be having them shipped, If this turns out good, I am going to schedule a vacation day next Friday and drive up to Syracuse to pick them up myself.

Nice that you can get the refractor for less than you originally thought! Also, I think it's safe to say this arm passes the weight test. How heavy is this light? Also, nice collection of photocells!

1000 watt HPS typically weighs in at a hefty 80 lbs.

Wow! How much would you guess the fixture to weigh without the ballast and cap (just housings, refractor, and reflector)?

Take about 40 lbs off for the ballast.

40 pounds with no ballast is still pretty heavy! My M-400 split door weighs that much with it's H33 120X240V ballast.

Anyhoo, here's the website for T&D Surplus Sales: http://www.tdsurplus.com/StreetLights/Luminair.htm

Hmm. I regonize stuff there from the NGrid Surplus Website. Some of the stuff that vanished off the NGrid site is on that website...

I wonder if T&D had been buying the stuff at auction?

It makes sense... Most of the good stuff they seemed to have bought from NGrid...

The older 1000 watt 1960's GE Mercury floods are very heavy too. I had to take a few of those of poles and trust me, it wasn't easy.

BOOM!!!
I'll be making the drive to Syracuse, New York to pick up two M-1000 refractors from National Grid in Liverpool.

Good Luck! Maybe you can score some other lighting-related stuff too?

There's a lot of mercury vapor General Electric M-1000's in West Penn Power's area.

40lb out 2ft = 40*2=80lb so 80*2= 160lb at the start of the arm.

Oh I made sure it was well built.

Yes, looks good.