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Cool vintage Christmas stuff guys! I see bunches of this stuff every week at the sales. I have too much already so don't "shop" much for it, but occasionally things jump into my arms. I found a box of vintage ornaments this week - my favorites are the funky shaped glass "balls". I have boxes of vintage balls, got lucky with a pre-war Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse pair once. I just stare at them every year for a couple of minutes and wrap them back up and put them away. We have a small 7' narrow tree with 1100 white lights on it, having it on in the living room not only warms your heart, but it also serves as a space heater! I love crystal on a lighted tree and got a smoking good deal on a Waterford tree-top one year but that gob of glass is so damnned heavy it pulls the tree over. It's now banished to the box as well.

We put C-9 bulbs on the bushes out front, I just love the look of those big bulbs, simple and elegant.

I think pictures are a great idea, I'd love to see what everyone else does!
 
I love those c6 8 light candoliers. I have three of those that I found in my great aunt's basement years ago. Every once in awhile I'll run across some blubs for them at yard sales. I use them in my front living room windows. When I was a kid almost everyone in my neighborhood had those candelabras. All red or blue were the most popular colors but occassionally you'd see a house using all amber, white or the very rare pale pink bulbs.
Les
 
posting pictures

"I'll have to purchase a digital camera. I had a loaner recently but I had to finally give it back."

Everybody keeps saying this, but digital camera is NOT necessary. Good old-fashioned film camera works just fine, one simply has the pics put on CD when having the film developed. Virtually everyone offers this service nowadays. Being stuck in the "Olden Days", I just bought a brand new Olympus Stylus 100 Wide FILM camera and I really like it. I suspect the pictures from it will be better than a digital camera in the same price range ($150)
 
c-6 lights

FYI The c-6 lights are always available on ebay under Holiday, Christmas. You can get the new ones cheap, or you can get the old Mazdas for about $1 each. I have some new ones, but prefer to use the old ones. If you dimmer them down, it doesn't burn the paint on the bulbs. One nice thing about Ebay, is that if you remember it from childhood, you'll find someone on Ebay that has a new one in the box! Mark
 
A diode is basically an electronic one-way valve sort of. From Radio Shack, one can get diodes for about $1.00 each in component form...just be sure to buy one that will handle the wattage in your fixture.

Within the inside of the fixture, where the incoming power line connects up to the lamp socket would be the best place to install the diode.

Because A.C. current changes direction 60 times a second (or 50 if you're in Europe) half of the electrical power doesn't get through. It will make your lamps glow a little bit dimmer, but not a significant amount. The biggest thing is that the blues may be reduced more in brightness more than the reds...this is because when the bulb is dimmer, it's light output will shift more towards the red end of the spectrum. This will enable them to last MUCH longer. Just a slight reduction in voltage will extend their lives.

I do however like the ideas of putting a dimmer on the circuit, that would be easier IMHO than modifying the fixture. The advantage of adding the diode is that the fixture can be used anywhere.
 
very nice :)

thanks cybr, and others for comments and sharing, and yes Mark, would love to come see your collection, I actually will be in DC end of OCT, email me ..........
 
I still like the effects of hollowing out a Styrofoam ball so that an outdoor C-9 size twinkle light bulb will fit in it, or it will fit over the bulb. It is so neat when it is on. Can't do it with constant burning bulbs--they burn up the Styrofoam, which could be fun for some people, but not exactly what most people expect for the holidays. One year my brother and I put them on the Foster's hollies at each end of the house. Half the lights were regular C-9s and half were our own twinkling snowballs.
 
maybe Peter

keep an eye on ebay, I think the C7's individual twinkling lamps must still be available .......... they were big in the early 80's back home .........
 
...and this is one of my favorite seller's!

and this is one of my favorite sellers.....He has just about any kind of bulb that you could want....old and new! MArk

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stores.ebay.com
 
twinklers

I see oneof the sellers screwed up in saying that the c7's were good for outdoors when they were INDOOR only. The c9's are for outdoors.
 

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