Who vacuums in the dark???

[sonnyndad]

This is what you get when you combine a vintage all metal Eureka and a 70 watt high pressure sodium streetlight.

 

[cb123]

No, I've never vacuumed in the dark, but I've been known to dance.

 

[sonnyndad]

I don't think it's bright enough

Maybe a Westinghouse Silverliner with a 400 watt mercury vapor would be better suited to this vacuum. I've got plenty of light bulbs to go around, though.

 

[gottahaveahoove]

I've done some of my best work

in the dark.

 

[sonnyndad]

Really, John??

I never would have guessed!

 

[gottahaveahoove]

You'd be

surprised!

 

[ultralux88]

OOOHHHHHHH MMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

 

[kirbylux77]

John

I'm sure you have done your best work in the dark A handsome manly guy like you, I bet you have to chase all those handsome eligible interested bachelors off with a metal baseball bat. If I was closer, I sure would be interested what your best work in the dark is, if you get my drift

Rob

 

[cb123]

Big Bad John...Big Bad John...a wall of vintage vacuums collapsed in the mine...trapping all souls inside. Why, with a mighty heave and a mighty shove, Big Bad John lifted up the mine and saved every man alive...Big Bad John...Big Bad JOOOHHHNNN! Well, we all know how the song ends...your a hero, John, you handsome, manly devil you!                                                             


                                                                                                              

 


 


 

 

[tolivac]

NICE--FLASHOHOLICS meet VACUUMHOLICS!!!!Have a LARGE collection of MH and HP sodium lights-along with my portable ones.Like the lamp "Stand" for your Cobrahead fixture made from an Eureka vac.Have a 150 W HP sodium cobrahead-HE got it at a surplus sale.Sadly can't run it-has a 480V only ballast.The thing cost like a dollar.Have a 400W Westinghouse cobrahead fixture that came from the trannsmitter site I work at.Its was thrown out becuase the orig mercury ballast was blown.Installed a 400W HP sodium ballast in it.Right now our site is being converted to ALL LED lights-The old mercury cobraheads have been replaced with 215W Americal Electric Lighting LED cobraheads.These are BETTER!!But like the "charm" of the mercury lights.Will try to get some of the old fixtures.Think the contractor may be scrapping them.The indoor flourescent lights are scheduled to be converted to LED.The ballast in the old fixute is removed and the bulb holders wired with 120V direct-then the LED "Flourscent" bulb is put in.So far the LED retrofits are looking good.MORE light!The pictures of the mercury bulbs look like what is in our parts stock-250 and 400W mercury bulbs-some brand new.Will see what comes next.We have 400W MH fixtures in our pump rooms-replace the old incandescent ones-MUCH BETTER!!!!

 

[sonnyndad]

!!!SAVE THE WESTINGHOUSE STREETLIGHTS!!!

If they are real Westinghouse Silverliners, I will take a few off your hands! I REALLY WANT A SILVERLINER! The picture is of a Westinghouse Silverliner.

Oh and by the way, I'm sorry they're putting in all that LED junk. On Lighting Gallery we all hate LED's. Mercury Vapor really is better.

 

[floor-a-matic]

What model # is the white/red Eureka? I'd like to have one

 

[gottahaveahoove]

My My MYYYYYYYYYYY

To quote Miss Joan Crawford in "Baby Jane", "How kind people are"!
Well. some.
Oh yes, they're knocking down my door everyday... TO GET OUT!! A HAAAA "Phyllis Diller".

 

[tolivac]

I was talking to the contractor and building head engineer to see if I could score some of those lights.We have to see--Gov't,you know.Frankly--the new LEDS are MUCH better than the mercury lights-they give off a warm,4K light.The LED lights you must have seen and NOT liked were those like Wal-Mart uses in their parking lots--the Cold,6 K blue ones.These that are being put in look much like metal halide.I like Mercury,too.And flourescent bulbs are being replaced inside the building with LED ones-so far they look fine and put out MORE light--and with both of these--no flickering.They used both GE cobraheads and Westinghouse Silverlines-do have one of those Silverlines at home.Its the one I put a 400W HPS ballast in becuase the orig mercury ballast was blown.The lighting project is being done By Duke Power(our electric supplier)and a contractor that works for them.Can't guarantee I can get some of the lights-we just have to see.Some of the yard light wiring has to be replaced-bad conduit and cables-they are over 50 years old!The orig lamp posts are being reused,though.Glad there are some other Flashoholics on here!Guess I must be weird---to like the new LED lamps better.Look up American Electric Lighting-they list the one we are using under their LED street and parking lot lights.AEL offers two color choices--the sick blue 6K ones or the warmer--nicer 4K ones that make everything look better rather than like Zombieland.Don't know what the maker of the LED flourescent bulbs are--to use the orig fixture and lampholders are used-you bypass the ballast-run the 120V right to the bulb sockets-the LED retrofit bulb runs from 120V.Also will be interesting to see how long these new LED light systems last.We all know mercury,HP sodium,and metal halide HID lights are pretty reliable.

 

[suckolux]

Dang, now I have to dig out my Jimmy Dean record! Power of suggestion!

 

[gottahaveahoove]

sausage,

anyone??

 

[suckolux]

Oh you didn't!

 

[suckolux]

John, breakfast on the mind, or was it a borrow from Evil Under the Sun??

 

[gottahaveahoove]

hmmmmmmmmmmmhow well do you know me??

What would you LIKE to think? "I'm a good boy". A REALLY goooood boy.