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Offline Rick M.

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My Exit Sign Collection
« on: July 25, 2012, 11:47:04 PM »
Hey everyone! Here I'll post pics of my exit signs. I currently own three. :)

This is the oldest one, a late 1950s Prescolite exit sign. It's the preheat fluorescent kind, with two F6T5 tubes inside. I got it from ebay a while back. (Please excuse the baby-ish wooden blocks underneath; that's all I had laying around to prop it up so the wiring had space to come out of the bottom... :D)




The next one is also a Prescolite, but this one is from the late 60s or early 70s. This one has two standard base incandescent bulbs inside (came with two 11W sign bulbs; sockets can hold up to 25W each). This one came from a demolition sale. Also, the arrow is not original - the previous owner spray-painted it on with a stencil of some kind. Still looks cool though. 8)




The last one is also a Prescolite (you can tell what my favorite exit sign brand is, haha... ;D). It's the newest one, and it's from 1993. This one has two tubular candelabra base bulbs inside (I think they're 15W or something?). My uncle found this thing at a garage sale, still in the original packaging! Kinda cool that this one has green lettering instead of red like the other two.




All together now:


Enjoy! :)
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Re: My Exit Sign Collection
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2012, 10:33:33 AM »
Nice! My favorite kind of exit sign are the PL fluorescent ones.
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Re: My Exit Sign Collection
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2012, 10:46:15 AM »
Nice collection here Rick M! I also collect a handful of Exit signs too!

here's 3 of my examples

here's most of it, I had made my LED one have different colors per letter on one side

the day I found some of my finds!

What do you think of them? 
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Offline Rick M.

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Re: My Exit Sign Collection
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2012, 05:45:09 PM »
Quote from: streetlight98 on July 26, 2012, 10:33:33 AM
Nice! My favorite kind of exit sign are the PL fluorescent ones.
Thanks! Yeah, I like those fluorescent ones too - seems like they're not as common as incandescent and those LED ones they make now.

Quote from: Jace the Gull on July 26, 2012, 10:46:15 AM
Nice collection here Rick M! I also collect a handful of Exit signs too!

here's 3 of my examples

here's most of it, I had made my LED one have different colors per letter on one side

the day I found some of my finds!

What do you think of them?  
Nice exit signs - I like those! Looks like you have a nice variety.
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Offline joe_347V

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Re: My Exit Sign Collection
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2012, 06:48:37 PM »
Interesting stuff, I like the fluorescent signs too. I have a few exit signs myself too.
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Re: My Exit Sign Collection
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2012, 08:51:09 PM »
The most I have is the face of an LED exit sign. I don't have the other half lol.
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Re: My Exit Sign Collection
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2012, 09:57:43 PM »
Quote from: Jace the Gull on July 26, 2012, 10:46:15 AM
Nice collection here Rick M! I also collect a handful of Exit signs too!

here's 3 of my examples

here's most of it, I had made my LED one have different colors per letter on one side

the day I found some of my finds!

What do you think of them? 

Hmm... I wonder where that triangle-shaped exit sign came from!  ;D
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