The T17 will just go into storage in my shed after i clean it out and stuff. Nope the lamps are never going to be made again unfortunately so these will only ever see light use. The stab-in outlet connectors are the same exact thing as the stab-in quick connectors to replace wirenuts. The only difference is the lack of an outlet. So if you hate the stab in outlet connectors I don't see why you like the stab-in quick connectors lol.
I'll probably replace the 8ft tandem unit with two single lamp F32T8 strips (non-tandem for easier transporting; i'll just mount them end-to-end). I'd like to eventually get the 8ft preheater but it's not at the top of my list.
Ah good luck getting the HOs! They seem quite a bit less common than slimlines, though I think 4ft HO would be more common than 4ft slimline. I've seen 4ft HOs for sale in stores but never seen 4ft slimlines for sale. I doubt they're common. I wouldn't mind an F48T12/HO fixture. Yeah since you have the house you can pretty much store all the lights you want, you just have to find a spot for them. You could always just mount lights in an unfinished spot of your house and not hook them up. It saves a lot of space and you can "store" lamps in the fixtures too. When my fixtures were piled up against the wall I didn't have lamps in most of them since I didn't want the lamps to break but the ones that are mounted do have lamps (except the 1X2 wood trim drop dish one; I can't put lamps in it since I installed it with eye-screws instead of drywall screws, so the eyepiece on them blocks the lamps from being inserted. The holes in the housing were too big for drywall screws and I didn't have washers so I used eye-screws lol).
I'm running out of space for fluorescents though. I have the shed for some 4ft ones and I guess I can fit some small fluorescents (like strips and other compact fixtures) but there's not even room on the ceiling for larger 4ft shoplights and stuff. Lately the ReStore hasn't had anything interesting (which I guess can be a good thing, since I can focus more on getting the lights from my family under my roof). Here's a complete inventory of what I hope to get from the family. Ones marked with an asterisk (*) are low-priority lights.
A-(4x) F40/RS Western Electric lights
A-(1x) mid-80s LOA shoplite with Philips-Westinghouse lamps* (the lamps are high-priority but the fixture really isn't...)
A-(1x) F90T17 over my late-grandpa's desk
A-(1x) 3X F20T12 preheat halfpiper fixture*
K-(1x) F40T12 8ft preheat tandem light*
K-(1x) F90T17 in the garage (removal already planned)
G-(3x) F40 Preheaters in the garage**
G-(3x) F40 preheaters in the basement**
R-(3x) Assorted F40 preheater shoplights
R-(1x) F20T12 deco preheater w/o glass endcaps
Double-asterisk items are high-priority but I feel funny asking to replace them so they're not at the top of the list. She might not want them removed since I got them all working (if I had thought ahead, I would have said the ballasts were "bad" and replaced the fixtures right then and there...)
A denotes lights at my grandma's and aunt's house (A for Alice, my grandma's name).
K denotes lights at my great-aunt's house (K for Kathy/Kathleen, my great-aunt's name).
G denotes lights at my cousins' grandma's house (G for Gerri/Geraldine, her name [Gerri is pronounced "Jerry"])
R denotes lights at my aunt's and uncle's house (R is for Roger, my uncle. My aunt's name is Kerri but I already used K...)
So the high-priority lights are the four Western Electric lights and the T17s. That's probably all I have room for. Those T17s are pretty huge and heavy. Who knows how much that shelf in the shed can actually hold. I have to get up on the shelf in the shed to add studs for the street light pole so hopefully it can at least hold me (200-210 pounds, yeah I'm a pretty big beast for only 5ft 5in lol). After I get those lights I will try and see if I can get Gerri's lights, or at least some of them. I'd actually prefer to get the basement ones since they're MUCH nicer looking and would probably only require a wipe-down. The garage ones definitely require a good sanding and new paint. Possibly new sockets too, though the bolt-on ones with screw terminals are pretty hard to find. I'm not going to chase down my aunt's and uncle's preheaters. They're gutting the basement *eventually* and when they do, the lights will be coming down so I'll get them then. I'll be livid if they toss the lights because they know I want them. The Western Electric lights will actually probably be the easiest to get since I see them every Friday. I could just replace one a night and be done after three Fridays. I have the T17's replacement lined up already. I'll probably ask to replace it after I get my great-aunt's T17 and make space on the shed's shelf/loft. I might have to reinforce the shelf though... It's just some 3/8" plywood nailed in on the three walls, coming out 4ft, and then a 2X4 running between the two opposing walls, running parallel to the wall with the window where I'm adding the light. I'll probably grab a couple more 2X4s and nail them to the roof trusses and then to the shelf/loft. I can't jack it up with studs underneath because the tractor parks under it and diagonal bracing would limit access to under the shelf.