70's fluorescent lighting - how to fix it when it's recessed.
jenathegreat
15 years ago
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Comments (13)David, the law should have been written to encourage the purchase of the most efficient lighting, (IE they get the credit for now many watts the lights save, instead of the bassakwards law they wrote where you add up the watts of the non-incandescent lights you bought and gets a "Credit for that"----so that encourages people to buy those non-incandescants (at the highest wattage), so they can use an incandescent (as computed by our idiots)! If you live in Calif, there is NO WAY, you can miss all the windmills out here, and there are credits (US & Calif), I believe for purchasing Solar Power. Let me give you another example of why I call these "So Called Thinkers", idiots. My wife works for a huge company, with TONS of computers. Just about all the computers are still using Cathode Ray Tube Monitors (There not nearly as efficient as LCD Monitors). There is NO incentive for companies to update monitors (Government wise--Especially CAlif Govt). In fact , you are penalized if you update the monitor, first the sales tax, but worse than that is a law our "Idjusts" passed---The so called "Monitor Recycling Fee". If you are a business, in Calif, You have to "Guesstimate" the number of monitors you will buy in the calendar year. Then you pay a Fee based upon your number (of course they Keep an Eye on ya). This law was passed when (due to the Terminator), no new taxes would be passed in Calif---or at least it would be difficult "Political wise" So the Legislature came up with all kinds of "Fees", this being one of them. They kept coming up with new fees until the "Hammer Fell". Monitor's that are recycled, make money for the recycler so it had nothing to do with the disposal costs of old monitors! One of the many reasons the State is Broke, is because we duplicate so much of what the Fed Govt is already doing, and I for one, don't Appreciate Our Idiots "Granstanding" and passing laws that have the opposite effect of maximizing Energy Savings!!! Gary...See MoreHow much light does a 22 watt fluorescent give?
Comments (2)A typical 22 Watt circline lamp will be rated about 1200 lumens. This is roughly equivalent to a 75 watt incandescent lamp. This is with a normal ballast factor. Some ballasts may slightly underdrive the lamp for longer life and less energy use, or slightly overdrive it for more light output. A typical 26 watt PL-C 4 pin compact fluorescent lamp has an output of 1800 lumens when driven by a standard ballast. So a fixture using two of them should in theory produce about 3 times as much luminous flux as the circline fixture you describe. The light quality is likely to be more pleasant, too. A lot also depends on the design of the fixture. In real use, the fixture using two 26-Watt lamps may not yield 3 times as much light. Recessed cans and other restrictive fixtures which emphasize appearance over effectiveness often swallow some (or much) of the light emitted by the lamps....See MoreKeeping the 70's/80 kitchen challenge questions
Comments (4)I'm no expert, but it sounds like laminate cabinets. There is a cleaner called Countertop Magic that is supposed to be great for laminate countertops, would probably work on this as well, if it's vinyl (I've never used it myself). I have almost the same exact big a$$ fridge: I'm going to try taking the handles off and using silver vinyl dye on them, in the spring. What about painting the walls a light yellow with a little gray to it, such as Valspar Star Bright? It would harmonize with the gray, the green, the wood color, even the white. Re the lights, if you're looking to eventually go for a retro look, as I gather from your reference to vintage flour containers, you could get some schoolhouse light fixtures, either pendants or semi-flush. The great thing about them is that the white glass globes give off a bright even light, without the glare you get from a clear globe, and they could hang below the suspended ceiling, by as much as you need. Here's some at HD: Love the table! Here is a link that might be useful: Home Depot schoolhouse fixtures...See MoreHow to remove the tub and/or replace snubber on old 70s Speed Queen
Comments (9)Here's what I found out - mostly, thanks to an experienced repairman at a local appliance parts store. This machine actually has no "snubber ring". It does have a "snubber plate" - actually three of them. They are steel and don't require replacing. Each is kind of a T-Shaped piece of metal that attaches with a pair of springs. (#6 ASSY,SNUBBER in attached diagram) It was suggested that when experiencing noise and/or "unbalanced load" type problem as we were (details re what we were experiencing can be found here: "Always "unbalanced load" on spin?") that it's probable that one of the springs had broken. This seemed a good explanation however, this was not the problem in our case. It turned out to be a simple problem with the sediment tube. The sediment tube (20 in attached diagram) runs up from the bottom of the tub and attaches to a small bracket held on by a screw that secures the spin basket balance ring (11 in attached diagram). That bracket had rusted through allowing the sediment tube to flail around freely inside the drain tub, depending on which side it fell, either pounding the side of the tub when pulled or, when pushed, causing a horrible metal-on-metal screeching and jamming and sticking making it seem like a balance problem. To repair this properly required removing the spin tub which I had been having a great deal of difficulty doing (see my other posts). This was also immediately confirmed by that experienced ol' repairman "Oh, you'll never break those! You need air tools." My solution was not ideal but seems to work. I attached a length of twine to the sediment tube end, wrapped it around the tub a few times tied the ends together. Because this will eventually degrade, come apart and could possibly clog up one drain or another I also attached both ends to the top of spin basket balance ring so that it can easily be retrieved. It now seems to run fine. I'll probably redo this using wire. That solved the possible snubber ring, "unbalanced load" issue but doing so apparently created yet a different problem. (Thanks to www.partselect.ca for diagrams shown)....See Morelaxsupermom
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