Hi Randy Good Question, I have looked at your Item number and they, look similar to the vintage B2 Floodlight/Studio Lamp, I have a 115v 500w version see...
This is great news about the progress in Infirmary Street. Not only has the new bracket on the Falkirk column received a new teardrop lantern but the unique...
Hi All, If you like your flori' lanterns then your love this little gem, as some of you may know we are lucky to have a little known town called Epsom on...
Hi Pete, its a AEI-Mazda Saxby, or later Thorn Beta 6 you possibly have the second one in a personel collection the UK an I have possible first one in...
Hi Colin, Yes I noticed you had one in your collection! I didn't know this was on the patch but just turned up in some routine sleeving works, luckily a few...
Hi Simon, Thanks - Yes I was pleasntly surprised when that one came out the tower! - Check out the Revo find today as well, a nice old gem, found up a...
Hi All I know if you add Thallium to the gas of a Metal Halide Lamp you get Green Light and if you add Indium Bromide to the gas of a Metal Halide Lamp...
Hi Pete, I had mine for years it came from where I live back in 1986, before they were replaced with Philips MI-50's with NEMA Photocells, with 35w SOX...
Hi Colin, I'm just glad it tuned up now instead of when the PFI inevitably starts early next year. I'm always amazed as to whats still out there lurking...
Hi Pete I agree, unfortunately up here om Liverpool most Mercury/and Fluorescent streetlights were kulled for SOX especially in the mid 1970s except in...
... According to the lamptech site, magenta lamps use a mixture of lithium, sodium and indium. You *should* be ok to run it on a regular UK choke ballast, I've...
Thalium is highly toxic, so should not be used in equipment that is likely to be used by the general population who may not be aware that it is dangerous....
Hi Colin Interessting, how dangerous Elements are used in Lamps, I better make sure the lamp is well protected from damage. I know Hollow Cathode Lamps can...
Hi Colin, Yes there's some nast stuff around. Thalium is not radioactive so far as I know, though it may have some unstable isotopes. You may be confusing it...
Hi Colin Don't mean to sound like Robert Oppenheimer working on the Manhatton Project Anyway Radioactive Thallium-201 (half-life of 73 hours) is used...
Plutonium sounds an unlikely power source for pacemakers, but they do contain some nasty things; they have to be removed before a body is cremated. ... ...
Hi Stephen I too though this but reading wikipedia see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium then scroll down to Power and Heat Source. Plutonium-238...
Nice one Pete! The tubes look long dead. Did they say what road it came out of? I'm presuming of course that the tubes were long expired. There were a couple...
Hi Colin, Many thanks. Yes, I was aware of the application of technetium in nuclear medicine as it is used in my hospital here. Best wishes, Colin. To:...
You learn somethjing every day! Colin. To: StreetlightingUK@yahoogroups.com From: sailormoon_01_uk@... Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 22:16:46 +0000 Subject:...
Hi Pete What a top bit of collecting mate, I'd love to get my "Germans" (German bands, Hands) on one of those. I missed out when they demolished the old ...
R - E - V - O !* Some of you may (or may not) remember last year some photos were posted of an old top-entry Revo sodium lantern located in Tutshill, ...
Hi Col, Cheers mate, wasn't expecting that to turn up at all as I didn't even know we had any on the network! Thanks for the offer of the tubes too. And...
Hey Chris, Congrats on saving that Revo! I posted some terrible photo's of it in 'Roger's Relics' sometime ago. As I think we both said at the time, it...
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