Quest du jour- seeking T1.25 wire base blue tinted bulbs.

[aemeijers]

On 1/27/2011 3:12 PM, Harrison Lighting and Neon wrote:

I am a lighting service person and we use DEKA brand transparent LIGHT BLUE
#30
glass stain. I have personally used this to dip antique x-mas lights and
#47 dial bulbs with EXCELLENT results.......most any glass or hobby shop can
get this.
the small size bottle is 2/3 fluid ounce for about $4ea. this will do
aprox 75 #40 lamps ( these were used as Christmas lights in the late
1940's)
clean the lamps with alcohol, dip, stick the wire leads into a piece of
Styrofoam at an angle so the paint drips down but not all over the
leads....one dip will give very good results....if you really want to do it
right bake these in a toaster oven at 200-300 degrees for aprox 15 minutes
after they are dry to the touch. THIS WILL STINK a little,, so make sure
the wife is away, but it wont damage the oven. or contact me by email and I
can do a few for you if your not in a big hurry.


Herb Harrison Oxnard Calif USA

Thanks. I'll try 'Hobby Lobby' this weekend. (when they came in, the
ma'n'pa places went belly up.)

aem sends...

 

[Tony Miklos]

On 1/26/2011 7:22 PM, aemeijers wrote:

Anybody know a source for T1 1/4 wire base bulbs (NOT LEDs) with blue
tint? Trying to replace the lights on the HVAC controls for a 2005
Caravan. Dealer claims they are unserviceable, and wants to sell me a
whole new pod for hundreds of dollars. I have already replaced them with
T1's (too small) after buying T1 3/4 that were too big (I feel like
Goldilocks), but the T1s are too short, and the blue condoms make them
too dim. I am aware of McMaster-Carr and Allied- that is where I wasted
my money on the first two tries, for the condoms and bulbs respectively.
Allied has clear bulbs in the right size (now that dummy me figured out
what the size is), but not the tinted ones.

And yes, I already tried rec.autos.tech.

Blue INK will work much better than blue paint.

 

[David Nebenzahl]

On 1/26/2011 4:22 PM aemeijers spake thus:

Anybody know a source for T1 1/4 wire base bulbs (NOT LEDs) with blue
tint? Trying to replace the lights on the HVAC controls for a 2005
Caravan. Dealer claims they are unserviceable, and wants to sell me a
whole new pod for hundreds of dollars. I have already replaced them with
T1's (too small) after buying T1 3/4 that were too big (I feel like
Goldilocks), but the T1s are too short, and the blue condoms make them
too dim. I am aware of McMaster-Carr and Allied- that is where I wasted
my money on the first two tries, for the condoms and bulbs respectively.
Allied has clear bulbs in the right size (now that dummy me figured out
what the size is), but not the tinted ones.

Well, here's something novel for this thread: an actual possible source
of bulbs. Try donsbulbs. This search:

http://www.donsbulbs.com/cgi-bin/r/t.pl?searchb=t1-1%2F4

turned up a shitload of T1-1/4 bulbs. Sorry, too lazy to go through
them; maybe your bulb is in there somewhere. (Or you could contact the
guy; I think it's actually some guy named Don who runs this biz.)



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[aemeijers]

On 1/27/2011 3:12 PM, Harrison Lighting and Neon wrote:

I am a lighting service person and we use DEKA brand transparent LIGHT BLUE
#30
glass stain. I have personally used this to dip antique x-mas lights and
#47 dial bulbs with EXCELLENT results.......most any glass or hobby shop can
get this.
the small size bottle is 2/3 fluid ounce for about $4ea. this will do
aprox 75 #40 lamps ( these were used as Christmas lights in the late
1940's)
clean the lamps with alcohol, dip, stick the wire leads into a piece of
Styrofoam at an angle so the paint drips down but not all over the
leads....one dip will give very good results....if you really want to do it
right bake these in a toaster oven at 200-300 degrees for aprox 15 minutes
after they are dry to the touch. THIS WILL STINK a little,, so make sure
the wife is away, but it wont damage the oven. or contact me by email and I
can do a few for you if your not in a big hurry.


Herb Harrison Oxnard Calif USA




"aemeijers"<aemeijers@att.net> wrote in message
newsdSdnd-S09w2J93QnZ2dnUVZ_uidnZ2d@giganews.com...
Anybody know a source for T1 1/4 wire base bulbs (NOT LEDs) with blue
tint? Trying to replace the lights on the HVAC controls for a 2005
Caravan. Dealer claims they are unserviceable, and wants to sell me a
whole new pod for hundreds of dollars. I have already replaced them with
T1's (too small) after buying T1 3/4 that were too big (I feel like
Goldilocks), but the T1s are too short, and the blue condoms make them too
dim. I am aware of McMaster-Carr and Allied- that is where I wasted my
money on the first two tries, for the condoms and bulbs respectively.
Allied has clear bulbs in the right size (now that dummy me figured out
what the size is), but not the tinted ones.

And yes, I already tried rec.autos.tech.

--
aem sends...

I think we have a winner here. Local Hobby Lobby didn't have the exact
stuff specified, but they did have stained glass paint in daubing
bottles, that they claimed were from the same company, although it
didn't say so on the bottle. I tried it on a couple of the wrong-size
bulbs, and it seemed to work okay. I have ordered t1.25s from Allied,
and first warm (or at least above-freezing) day, I'll open it up and
give it another try. Bulbs should be here Monday or Tues, so I'll
pre-paint enough of them and leave them stuck in the foam block sitting
in a sunny window for several days, for maximum hardness (short of over
baking. After 4 years of non-use, I'm scared to open my oven.)

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aem sends...

 

[Smitty Two]

In article <E-CdnVJIOpMyONjQnZ2dnUVZ_tadnZ2d@giganews.com>,
aemeijers <aemeijers@att.net> wrote:

I'll
pre-paint enough of them and leave them stuck in the foam block sitting
in a sunny window for several days, for maximum hardness (short of over
baking.

Just power them. They'll give off plenty of heat to bake their fresh
coatings.

 

[aemeijers]

On 1/31/2011 2:12 AM, Smitty Two wrote:

In article<E-CdnVJIOpMyONjQnZ2dnUVZ_tadnZ2d@giganews.com>,
aemeijers<aemeijers@att.net> wrote:

I'll
pre-paint enough of them and leave them stuck in the foam block sitting
in a sunny window for several days, for maximum hardness (short of over
baking.

Just power them. They'll give off plenty of heat to bake their fresh
coatings.

If I had a bench supply (other than that old Rat Shack POS with the plus
and minus markings on the case backwards), I would. I have some wall
warts in my collection that put out 12v, but don't know how clean the
waveform is, or how much current they provide. I guess I could duct-tape
a buncha D cells together, but I'm rapidly losing interest in this
project, and they are predicting 12-15 inches of snow tomorrow night, so
I anticipate being rather tired the next few days....

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