hooverwheelaway
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Here's the fruit of their labors...
Christmas color wheel collection
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austinado16
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I echo everyone else.......
Wow! I had no idea there were so many and of all the things to collect, this is just about the coolest thing EVER.
Nothing short of amazing, and it put a smile on my face to look at every picture. Thanks!
Wow! I had no idea there were so many and of all the things to collect, this is just about the coolest thing EVER.
Nothing short of amazing, and it put a smile on my face to look at every picture. Thanks!
To lazy to put mine up also takes to long. 288 tapper branches not fun and being 8 feet tall also makes it no fun. Bad part it is so big around it takes up the whole room. about 6 foot around the bottom row,
Best thing about it the branches use lock on clips to hold the foile to them. Worst part they will cut the crap out of you.
Best thing about it the branches use lock on clips to hold the foile to them. Worst part they will cut the crap out of you.
This thread cool for me as well-the collection of color wheels-remember a relative that had one when I was a kid-and the aluminum tree.Like the idea of putting wheels behind windows with the white curtains-would be interesting.Really like the HooverwheelAway picture of the aluminum tree,its color wheel and the period TV,furniture and what looks like a Hi-fi cabinet to Match!-and of course the Hoover convertible vacuum.
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That hoover 65 couldn't look more perfect anywhere else! It looks like a decoration by itself!
Your living room is to die for.
Your living room is to die for.
Gobsmacked !
That is amazing and timely too...I didn't know anything about mine/maker etc. now I do..
Mine appears to be a Colortone roto-wheel like the one in your picture second on the left EXCEPT it isn't Musical...
Can you describe the "musical part"
It only has a 40 watt light inside against a reflector so it doesn't seem to shed a lot of light, less than I'd like actually but just enough.
That is amazing and timely too...I didn't know anything about mine/maker etc. now I do..
Mine appears to be a Colortone roto-wheel like the one in your picture second on the left EXCEPT it isn't Musical...
Can you describe the "musical part"
It only has a 40 watt light inside against a reflector so it doesn't seem to shed a lot of light, less than I'd like actually but just enough.
Wow! Thanks for the kind remarks.
Tim, yes I have flood light or spot light bulbs in most of my color wheels. Most of them came equipped with 150 watt spot lights. I've toned these down to 120 or 100 watt bulbs in most of them to reduce heat. I have seen color wheels damaged from heat but usually only if the motor fails or if the wheel stops spinning because of a loose screw.
Doug, I have tried the CFL bulbs but wasn't too pleased with the results
Fred, PLEASE show us pics of your color wheels! No, I haven't had them on all at once. Not enough outlets, ext. cords, or circuits to power them all at once! By the way, your tree is BEAUTIFUL with all the vintage ornaments. Brings back great memories. I love all your vintage decor as well.
Pete, The musical color wheel houses a jewelry box style music movement in the base, powered by a separate, tiny electric motor with it's own on-off switch. Music can be played with or without the color wheel working. It plays a very fast, monotonous version of "silent night" and the electric motor makes it sound like silent night with a lawn mower running outside! As for your light bulb, these color wheels can tolerate 75 watt bulbs and I have used 100 watt bulbs with no problem at all. The colors are more brilliant if you use the clear bulbs instead of frosted glass.
You can see ONE of my aluminum trees under the Christmas tree thread in the As The Tub Turns forum. I have more, but who has space to set them all up?
Please post pictures of your own aluminum trees, color wheels.
Again, thanks for the kind remarks! You're a great group and I wish you all a very merry and safe Christmas.
Tim, yes I have flood light or spot light bulbs in most of my color wheels. Most of them came equipped with 150 watt spot lights. I've toned these down to 120 or 100 watt bulbs in most of them to reduce heat. I have seen color wheels damaged from heat but usually only if the motor fails or if the wheel stops spinning because of a loose screw.
Doug, I have tried the CFL bulbs but wasn't too pleased with the results
Fred, PLEASE show us pics of your color wheels! No, I haven't had them on all at once. Not enough outlets, ext. cords, or circuits to power them all at once! By the way, your tree is BEAUTIFUL with all the vintage ornaments. Brings back great memories. I love all your vintage decor as well.
Pete, The musical color wheel houses a jewelry box style music movement in the base, powered by a separate, tiny electric motor with it's own on-off switch. Music can be played with or without the color wheel working. It plays a very fast, monotonous version of "silent night" and the electric motor makes it sound like silent night with a lawn mower running outside! As for your light bulb, these color wheels can tolerate 75 watt bulbs and I have used 100 watt bulbs with no problem at all. The colors are more brilliant if you use the clear bulbs instead of frosted glass.
You can see ONE of my aluminum trees under the Christmas tree thread in the As The Tub Turns forum. I have more, but who has space to set them all up?
Please post pictures of your own aluminum trees, color wheels.
Again, thanks for the kind remarks! You're a great group and I wish you all a very merry and safe Christmas.
One of my new color wheels i got last year use a screw in Halogen Light. It works good but to me put to muc light out the sides. Can not find any spot lights around here to try them out with it.
I also have one that looks old but new that says use stander light bulb. Looks like crap so changed it out.
I also have one that looks old but new that says use stander light bulb. Looks like crap so changed it out.
Nice collection! I was curious if you had one of the drum style color wheels, with colored filters wrapped around the outside of a metal framed cylinder? Very neat when they're balanced, they spin by convection from the bulb! -Cory
Fabulous!
I just love the aluminum trees . . . not only stylish but so ecologiclly correct: no real trees need die, and aluminum can be recycled into a Prius if necessary!
I have a couple of color wheels somewhere in storage. Once is the conventional type, but another is one I've never seen before or since. It looks like a large aluminum hatbox on the outside. Inside are the floodlights, but they face straight up and shine through a lens on top. In the middle is a small motor and gearbox, and you mount the tree into a vertical spindle driven by the motor in the center of the lens so that the whole tree goes around with the lens. It's in a box with the original Monkey Wards price tag still on it. Unfortunately, the gearbox is frozen so it doesn't work but someday I'll try to fix it and put up one of my aluminum trees.
I just love the aluminum trees . . . not only stylish but so ecologiclly correct: no real trees need die, and aluminum can be recycled into a Prius if necessary!
I have a couple of color wheels somewhere in storage. Once is the conventional type, but another is one I've never seen before or since. It looks like a large aluminum hatbox on the outside. Inside are the floodlights, but they face straight up and shine through a lens on top. In the middle is a small motor and gearbox, and you mount the tree into a vertical spindle driven by the motor in the center of the lens so that the whole tree goes around with the lens. It's in a box with the original Monkey Wards price tag still on it. Unfortunately, the gearbox is frozen so it doesn't work but someday I'll try to fix it and put up one of my aluminum trees.
Cory, I don't have the type color wheel you're talking about but I am familiar with them. I've seen those on Ebay mfg. by Evergleam, Noma, and Magic Lantern. Cadman, I've only seen pictures of the stand/color wheel you described..made by Evergleam I do believe, but I've never actually seen one.
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My color wheels!
After a brief photo shoot... here are my color wheels.
After a brief photo shoot... here are my color wheels.
hooverwheelaway
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Zoomed out...
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My favorite...
I love the little motor and geared edge of the wheel. The colored lenses are glass, too. But because all 4 colors are in front of the light, it gives a different effect than the other color wheels that only pass one color past the light at a time.
I love the little motor and geared edge of the wheel. The colored lenses are glass, too. But because all 4 colors are in front of the light, it gives a different effect than the other color wheels that only pass one color past the light at a time.
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I also cheated...
A few years ago -- I got a new one for about $40 off of eBay.
Cheaply made, but it works -- and I don't mind leaving it on.. although the motor on the other vintage one I run on the tree is quieter than the motor in the new one.
A few years ago -- I got a new one for about $40 off of eBay.
Cheaply made, but it works -- and I don't mind leaving it on.. although the motor on the other vintage one I run on the tree is quieter than the motor in the new one.
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I would also love one of the tree stands that has the color wheel built in, and it shines up from below the tree.. ((Can't find a picture of one at the moment)).
Way to go Fred. You've got some nice ones there! Thanks for sharing
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What fabulous collections
you both have.Wonderful that there are so many brands.
you both have.Wonderful that there are so many brands.
