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Author Topic: BALAFIRE bulb wanted desperately  (Read 24354 times)

Offline Alan Franzman

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BALAFIRE bulb wanted desperately
« Reply #15 on: June 11, 2003, 12:41:00 am »
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Originally posted by Travers Koerner:
I too have been looking for one of these. The one I have had for over thirty years is is a tube shaped bulb. It was designed and used as a decorative flame in a carriage bulb. I have used it for thousands of hours and it still works. I now have a pair of carriage lamps at my entrance and hence want another one


Travers,

I have a half dozen bulbs like that. They are amber colored tubular bulbs, standard E-27 medium screw base, with (ceramic?) disc magnet glued on the outside. I don't know offhand if the glass is colored or lacquer coated.  All but one are still sealed on the original blister display cards (I had to open one to see it work!) If I can find them, I'll sell you one or two - you should probably get a pair in case they don't match the one you already have. At least one of the display cards has a lenticular animated flame effect, way cool!  Sorry, I'll probably have to keep those, unless I have more than two. :-)

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Offline Mónico González

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« Reply #16 on: September 26, 2003, 04:23:00 pm »
As i promised almost four months ago, here are a link where can be viewed a moving picture (loop-mode GIF file) recently taken from one of my flickering filament lamps

http://mis-bombillas.webcindario.com/Peli_Carbon_Oscil.htm


Here are another link to a smaller picture of the same lamp (intended for a quick downloading)

http://mis-bombillas.webcindario.com/Peli_Carbon_Oscil2.htm


Thanks to Yoshi for the latter file. He have been "reprocessed" the former one for me.  


Enjoy it!

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M. Gonz?lez.

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[This message has been edited by M?nico Gonz?lez (edited September 27, 2003).]

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« Reply #17 on: September 27, 2003, 09:36:00 am »
Cool animation M?nico - this must have taken a long time to create.

Here's another if anyone is interested in buying one.  I've seen a few listed by this seller:
 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2349611113&category=43424


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