Gallery of Lights
Lamps => Vintage => Topic started by: Mike on August 14, 2011, 09:17:44 AM
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Ok, remember the lamp that came with my OV10? I THINK it's a Sylvainia lamp, but not positive. Jace told me to check on the base and after looking with a magnifing glass, i fount the number "8". On a little strip of metal i found this:
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thank you
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Congrats! IT is a Sylvania!!! After looking at a pic of your lamp for details like shape of the base insulator and all that. I got it summarized!
It is from October 1990! I was turning 7 that month! I remember it very well!!!
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Thanks. The PC is two years older than the lamp. I had to use a magnifying glass to read the base the strip of metal could be read under good lighting. The lamp is 8 years older than me. ;D
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Often stuff gets installed 1 or 2 years after they were factory made, I see that all the time! ;-)
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Yep, I've noticed that most lamps at the store are usually at least around a few months old, most are at least a year.
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The regent 175w MV lamps i got at Walmart a month ago were from 2005. :o
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I doubt Walmart moves merc lamps quickly, :P I got a 1981 175w BT merc at hardware store in 2009 before.
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I should go to some of the local "mom & pop" hardware stores and see if they have old electrical stuff. :D
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Sometimes the stores with fewer customers will have older stuff but the shopkeepers tend to watch you like a eagle once you step in.???
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i've noticed that. kinda gets me mad when store owners watch me. It shows that they think I'm going to steal. I'm not that kind of person, so i don't like to be wathced like one. >:(
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Ugh, I hate that feeling too then the owner gets all surprised when I pick all the "old junk" out. ;D :8)
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You can't buy spraypaint in Rhode Island if you are a minor. There's to reasons for this: 1. grafitte 2. teens inhailing the fumes. I sometimes wonder why some people my generation likes to sniff fumes. ???
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Beats me :8) I don't think Ontario has that regulation but I could be wrong.
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Hey I know a shop that has 3 HPS fixtures with REFLECTOR SHAPED LAMPS included....the fixtures were from the 80s...and the price? Original price from 25 years ago....138 bucks each...no wonder why they have had those 3 worn boxes of the fixtures....collecting....DUST!
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Bring a pen and put a decimal in there so it says $1.38 >:D (Nah, don't really do that, i was just kidding. ;D)
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Reflector shaped HPS. :o I've never even heard of such a lamp.
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Me neither.
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Any chance of a pic Jace?