Interesting how they used True Value lamps, a store brand lamp, in their own store. Seems like store brand lamps are more of a residential thing...
Aw No you bought GE halogens?
The ones in my basement have dimmed badly. I replaced one with a 60W incandescent and the incandescent was brighter (and the halogens are 75W rated replacement, using 53W) I plan to replace them all with Sylvania halogens since apparently GE halogens suck...
BTW, I'm going to my grandpa's shop this weekend!
He's helping me fix up my OV-15 TuDor light that has corrosion issues and a few other things too. I plan to bring the F32T8 fixture to see if I can replace the bathroom preheater. And I'll take pics of all the lights!
Also, this Thursday I'm going to my great-aunt's house to change her outlets to three-prong grounded outlets. I'm also going to see if she'll let me convert the garage strips to T8 and try to troubleshoot the 8ft preheater. But changing the outlets will take all day on its own.
First I need to figure out how many circuits there are and what outlets are on which circuit (basically by shutting OFF one breaker at a time and seeing which outlets loose power).
Second, I need to remove all the outlets and stretch out the wires and then, one circuit at a time, test each outlet for voltage (with the breaker ON). Because the wires are all separated and "broken apart", the voltage should be zero at each one except for one wire, which is the wires that comes right from the breaker. That makes the outlet in that box the lead outlet and it needs to be replaced by a GFCI. The rest of the outlets will be replaced with regular 15A duplex receptacles. Once all the circuits and lead outlets are established, the rest is easy. Just install the outlets!