Nice, at least it works now! I bet it's much brighter in there now!
I got a pair of late 70s Metalux/Gibson 1X4 surface mount troffers from the 1979 wing of my school during my freshman year. One has a Universal Therm-O-Matic ballast which works fine but is a little on the loud side and the other has a thermal-cutout-tripping Advance Kool-Koil. I also used another half-dead Universal to make it a 3-lamper fixture. I've also gotten lots of 4' lamps from there...all T12, some vintage!
Xmaslightguy, I'll be going on a trip this week and intend to do some bandscanning and DXing for sure. I'll post results. I'll finally be in places in Alaska with full FM dials! (Anchorage and Fairbanks). The whole thought of metropolitan areas in Alaska is admittedly funny to me, considering I'm used to the rural areas!
And Mike: I'm going to try to get the rules-of-the-road book as a precursor to learning to drive. Then I think when I go off for college I'll take the test, giving me a year and a half to study up in advance. IDK what my first vehicle will be though. A friend and I were talking about learning to drive yesterday and I (After providing the disclaimer that it is totally ridiculous) mentioned the bizarre idea of driving a deuce and a half around every day LOL. We were laughing pretty good at the thought of parking one of those in the driveway in some cookie-cutter development: "Look for the one with the army truck parked in the driveway" and irritating the homeowner's association. Which leads me to sharing this:
OK, another bizarre (albeit non-lighting) dream I remember vividly last night: (Well, two of them actually!)
#1 included driving a 5-ton ex-army truck up my "driveway" (It's funnier if you see it in person though it would be totally possible). I woke up at some oh-dark-thirty and had to shake my head and laugh even then LOL. Ridiculous...but something I would totally do, as my dreams often are!
And #2, even cooler to me personally, was finding out some history (in pictures, articles, and other documentation) of the boat I'm involved with...and finding such stuff in weird places! I think it included: Some creepy lawyer settling my (mom's?) estate, (It's been settled for a year now), a bank teller, some Coast Guard leiutenant, and others. Found some other surveys (insurance, etc) also I think...but the pics were of the most bizarre things/spots on there. I remember getting all that stuff upon request or whatever, and having that "thank you thank you thank you!" vibe before being awakened to Train's "Hey, Soul Sister" this morning on the clock radio LOL.
And interesting, was this a wall you were studding up Mike?
Yeah good point, you could use a analog mini transmitter to rebroadcast it to a vintage tuner, etc. (Something I'd also like to find, they're another hobby/interest, I have several as you can probably see from Mike and I chatting back and forth.