Vintage Circlite and Other Rarely Seen Lighting Oddities from Bruce Grattan

[@aduncan4041]

Bridge looks great. Bridges are beautiful and efficient structures.

[@michaellindsay8934]

Great show. The lights are really interesting and that bridge is amazing lit up thanks for sharing

[@albertogarza6252]

The stone age knife is amazing, and gorgeous! I have seen them only in museums, you are so lucky. Thanks for sharing.

[@jackthompson2132]

Great stuff today. I was one of the mischievous kids. Soaped winds, knocked over trash cans, TP the trees and egg stuff. I regret doing that stuff now. Thank You for sharing John!

[@ScoutCrafter]

We were wild and mischievous…. 🫣😂👍

[@GarryRobinson-nk5dl]

I cant pick out a favorite from this video.. all great stuff! Thanks for sharing and your right. Its a wonder us kids survived the 60s and 70s lol!

[@FountainCityVol]

NYC fascinates me. Please take us on a field trip via video one day. Pretty please.

[@thenkgarage]

I always learn something new from your videos, thanks for sharing!

[@westhighlandsshop]

We would take a can of shaving cream and put a pin in the nozzle, heat it with a lighter until it shrunk around the pin, then pull it out. That shaving cream would shoot 30 feet or more! Enjoyed the "light show" today, thanks for sharing.

[@1lupus]

That Ciclite in the white bulb tester makes a really cool sci-fi table light. You should make another tester exactly the same as a permanent base for it.

[@lotsatrains]

Love that 44 watt bulb 👌 and yes the bridge does need to be lit up it’s beautiful 🤩

[@paulsworkshop4179]

Excellent. Love the lights.

[@Dardrum]

That 44 watt light reminds me of the space stations we never had lol. The Whitestone bridge is a thing of beauty all lite up.

[@johnfix1]

Fascinating episode. I enjoy seeing the history along with your demonstrations.

[@WeekendShedHead]

Hi John, love that knife what talent 😃 I must say I was into Mischief at Halloween as a kid 😬🎃 I look back with fondness, and a little bit of guilt 😂 Great episode Cheers Rob

[@jdive12]

That obsidian knife is a must-have for any knife collector! Really cool stuff! O, and I’m now calling you the Light Czar of YT!😎

[@overseas_demogod]

I did a bunch of deployments with the Seabees and one of the traditions was i would bring back a fighting knife for my son. Drove my wife crazy but he ended up with a couple Kabars, some SOGs, and some foreign military ones. Germany had a PX in Kandahar and got a nice one there. Bundeswahr I think. That PAL was a diamond in the rough!

[@timeflysintheshop]

Wow! That circlet light is soooo cool! I have never seen that before! Someone was really thinking outside the box on that one! 😊😊😊

[@RightOnJonCrane]

John we had the best times on Halloween in NJ as I’m sure you did! It was a free for all! Mischief Night was big, lots of TP and shaving cream! Sometimes some M-80’s taped to spray paint cans! 😳 Love the old light bulbs. Edison’s bulb is still burning bright. I grew up by his house in Caldwell NJ. I also worked as an electrician for many years. I love the old bulbs and electrical switches. Thanks for a great episode! 💡

[@drivesalot0063]

Another great show Scout! Thanks very much. 👍

[@tomdale1313]

you got a good eye for items like that knife, I enjoy wadding in your pools of anxiety free content...weather is in the 50's and rain here in "Freeattle"...the bridge looks good with lights on

[@garyjones2582]

Those were some funny stories about Halloween... brought back many memories of flinging eggs and all kinds of crazy stuff we did as kids... We haven't had any kids coming to our house trick or treating in over 15 years... We really had some good times growing up back in the 50's and 60's...They were probably the best... Another good one S.C... SEE ya Monday...

[@TomGunnTools]

I always had a flour sack, eggs and shaving cream! Love the good old days!

[@ScoutCrafter]

😂😂😂

[@andyc972]

Thanks John, I was only saying to my wife yesterday there isn't much Jeopardy in Trick or Treat these days, we have delightful well mannered little people come round for sweets with their parents, which is great, but it definitely has changed ! I just love that "Circlite" I was thinking the same it's like a UFO, such a cool design, all lighting is a sensual experience and so much more than purely practical, I too am slightly obsessed ! The bridge looks great, so well done for registering your views we all have a duty to do this as citizens and tax payers !

[@ScoutCrafter]

Andy- Years ago if you didn’t give candy you were punished! 😂. Today most people just shut the lights off early. 😃👍

[@madamecampsalot6384]

Love the bridge lights. We used chalk, ivory soap bars and toilet paper for "chalk night" which was the night before Halloween. Good fun, not destructive like today.

[@scroungasworkshop4663]

Great video Scout. We didn’t have Halloween in Australia, but unfortunately it’s become popular here now too. We get some sweets for our neighbours kids but use our security cameras to see who’s there because now we get these teenagers we’ve never seen before knocking. Cheers Stu. 🇦🇺

[@kathieharine5982]

In Los Angeles they replaced an old bridge with a beautiful new one and crooks store the copper wire. Sad.

[@AndyM.]

HA!!! Russ my step grandpa had those Circlite florescent bulbs all over casa de Terman back in the 70s!!!!!!

[@patjohnson3100]

Those older, more vintage pictures of trick or treaters are really cool. I dont recall the sock trick when I was a little kid back in the day. Sometimes someone would get a tree or house wrapped in toilet paper. Obsidian is also known as volcanic glass, and you are right -- it can be extremely sharp. Your lights are cool. A lighting engineer told me a long time ago that florescent bulbs would only be a transition to less. So I'm not surprised when I see older florescent shop fixtures at the flea markets. Led applications for automotive use have advanced by leaps and bounds. Just avoid the cheap Chinesium bulbs.

[@tonyn3123]

As a young teen, me a few buddies threw eggs one Halloween. The local police were jailing kids throwing eggs (and call parents to come get them). This was the 60's. Anyway, we were loaded with eggs and the police turned down the street we walked on. We all ran toward a yard with hedge bushes along the front of their property to hide and not be found with eggs. We all dove over the hedges and a buddy grunted loudly. After everything was clear, we found that he dove head-first over the hedge directly into a big oak tree. That was the end of our night, and our buddy only had a big bruise on his head and a black eye. Crazy kid stuff, huh? Thanks. One more comment. I have a navigational light from an old bridge reconstruction when they were replaced. I mounted it on a special piece of wood and wired for 120v as a memento. The smallest wattage incandescent bulb I could purchase still was too bright to illuminate in my home due to how the glass was cut. Bright is not the word! It's been 15 years, and I am going to revisit changing to a very small output LED. It would be nice to see it glow again after many years guiding ships in the navigational channel past a bridge to the harbor.

[@ScoutCrafter]

Yes! A small 1 watt LED would be awesome for that beacon. 😃👍

[@bigvicsworkshop]

I had thought i seen some markings on the guard before you cleaned it up... I might have to go back and see...probably seeing thjngs.. the tester and florescent bulb does look cool...my first thought was robot as well... tgif...have a goodun

[@ney4na449]

About 7 years ago I gave out Japanese mochi for Halloween and rarely get kids since (lol). Actually, the sad high crime rates are the cause I believe. And to the credit of shopping malls, they saw the need for a safe environment and created them (also providing an opportunity for moms and dads to get exposed Xmas shopping early).

[@lv_woodturner3899]

I love seeing infrastructure like bridges lit up at night. I have a circlite fixture, taken down a long time ago. Am I the only one who does not get the x years of life out of my LED bulbs. I laugh at the rated several thousand hours of life on the packaging, but then some component burns out so they either die, or flicker and need to be replaced. Dave.

[@PennsylvaniaMike]

Great video The beginning took me down memory lane.. I'm not embarrassed to say when I was younger, me and my friends were Chalker's and eggers 🤣🤣🤣, I do miss that bridge. I really enjoyed the Fluorescent light and it looking like a robot.

[@rongee1755]

Another fine educational post

[@rogerstlaurent8704]

TY Mr John for a Blast Into The Past with the Halloween Pranks GD that was fun back in its days yes it was Rambunctious My Father always use to tell the stories How he and the and the neighborhood Gang would knock over outhouses and drag them onto a street an watch cars smash into the old outhouse during Halloween LOL Great Video Mr John and Thank You for A Blast Into the Past

[@joeschulz7997]

You must be a mind reader or old. As soon as I saw your circular bulb in the tester, I immediately thought of the robot from lost in space. Good stuff as usual. 👍🏻😀🇺🇲

[@ScoutCrafter]

The B-9 Robot! 😃👍

[@ballinator]

In my garage is one of the original Circlites that my grandpa bought in the 1980s. Still works and still has the original bulb! When I grew up I bought a bunch of Circlites for my house, they never lasted more than a few months, and I switched back to incandescents...

[@ScoutCrafter]

The originals were probably made in the USA and later on imported. It’s a shame. 😃👍

[@alexstools]

We don't really have Halloween over here, and I'm pretty happy for it. I don't like skulls! I'm looking for some vintage outdoor light fixtures, hard to find and afford.. hope you'll have a great weekend!

[@ScoutCrafter]

Alex- Nothing worse than finding a skull under a floorboard during a restoration. 🫣😂👍

[@johnkelley9877]

This was really neat! Thanks for sharing this.

[@PennsylvaniaMike]

Hey John. A quick thank you. I finally got my hands on the cleaning product ( Whos name shall not be mentioned ) 🤣😂🤣. And you are right, they work great . Thanks

[@ScoutCrafter]

Hello Mike, I’m so glad you liked them next to the fiber wheel they are my favorite addition to the shop! 😃👍

[@ScottAllison-jf4ke]

I was laughing for hours after the story of the guy handing out Chinese Condiments.

[@terrystewart2070]

Another fun video John thank you! Halloween 1967, I was 2 days over 17, my 3 buds and I had quite a night. We started buying eggs in March. Kept them hidden in the garage. Had 273 dozen on Halloween night The eggs, me and 2 buddies in the back of a Corvair pick up (when was the last time you saw one of those?) The rest of the story is too long for here but none of us went to jail.😅😊

[@ScoutCrafter]

OMG! 😳😂👍

[@johnroberts7280]

That hand made knife is cool.

[@57WillysCJ]

When I hit high school I became the chaperone of younger cousins. The only ones that would bother little kids for their candy was kids in junior high. Soaping windows and toilet paper in trees was the major activity as well as smashing pumpkins. I would never smash one that could still be used. Now my father who was born in 1915 one year with friends took a neighbors buggy apart and reassembled it on the guys barn roof. Heck I would't let my kid on a barn roof without safety gear much less putting a buggy together or getting the pieces up there.😂

[@lugwrench9832]

Halloween memories --- Soap, toilet paper, feed corn (tons of it thrown all over the place), and knocking on random windows.

[@timeflysintheshop]

Its awesome to figure out what sometning is, its even more awesome when you realize that you have a genuine WW2 era item! very cool!

[@stevef8993]

Hey John, you are so right about Halloween back then, it was like Lord of the Flies. Shaving cream, eggs, flour socks were the terrorist’s choice of the day and everyone was on their own, no parents. I really got a chuckle over your soy sauce story, that’s great. Great video on all the lights! I’ve been missing the past few tool meets as I’ve been busy, but will try to get to the next one. Hope all is well with you. Keep not buying tools 😉

[@jimjohnston7688]

Certainly “trick or treated” when I was a kid, but “graduated” to soaping up car windows later on.

[@62forged]

Cool lights!

[@samfeldman1508]

I don’t have the chutzpah but I love the Duck sauce gag. Also, Air Condish has to make the list. Maybe you don’t need it in College Point but in Silver Spring it’s required.

[@timeflysintheshop]

I think if I was need8ng to use the pull string on the bulb with the plastic diffuser, I would drill a hole thru 8t at the right spot so the string, or chain could come straight down thru. That way you could turn the light off or on without having to remove the diffuser.

[@beerdrinker6452]

Nice video.

[@setdown2]

The bridge looks majestic as it should...I'm not to far from the Ben Franklin bridge and is lit up the same way...🖖

[@rawbacon]

Oh goodness it was Devil's Night when I was a kid and things got pretty wild. I remember one year me and my Brother got up on the roof with a bunch of eggs to defend the house.......Mom's yelling at us to get off the roof and we're refusing saying "No We're Defending Our Home!"....Good Times! 🤣😂👹👻

[@marcmckenzie5110]

The greatest human invention of all time is clearly bacon, with Nutella a close second. Then, maybe, the wheel and the printing press! 😂

[@GarryRobinson-nk5dl]

I whole heartedly agree 100%

[@saulquezada7898]

Hey señor Juan, sorry, but we Mexicans celebrate Dia de muertos, today and tomorrow our loved deceased ones come to visit us. Great that you have fantastic memories of Halloween. Gacha tu calaca Juan ☠. Saludos desde México

[@tonylenge424]

Yeah Halloween 🎃 isn’t what it use to be. We only get about 12 kids coming to the door trick or treating. The circle light was very cool.

[@saigaking]

Wow that light was so cool looking something from thunderbirds Took me straight back amazing great show John god bless Don’t forget to vote only one pick 45-47 DJT 🇺🇸🇳🇿🦅🗽🇮🇱🌟

[@truthreigns7]

I like the green light

[@davidspinney2023]

Hi Scoutcrafter those are cool lights. I have a lamp I guarantee you would love. my Neighbour worked for the CBC TV network they were closing down the local studio and were throwing out stuff, he brought home a stage light he even had a spare bulb. the light that thing gives off is incredible if that lamp could speak I am sure that provided the light for many TV shows its anyone's guess for how long. He moved away and couldn't take it with him he gave it to me. I could take pictures if you are interested where would I send them?

[@ScoutCrafter]

David I would love to see a pic of that gem!!! [e-mail]

[@waltbellamy9739]

put the light over your work bench in your bed room

[@dandecl5843]

So you left us hanging. What did the Mayor say was the reason the lights were out? Did you get a rebate on your taxes?.

[@ScoutCrafter]

The mayor’s office just sent a typical response letter stating that they “understand and are doing their best to rectify the situation”, they send that form letter out to everyone for everything! 🫣😂👍

[@davidhume2842]

How ScoutCraft. You still got that old Stiletto Stainless pry bar? You willing to sell it?

[@ScoutCrafter]

David- I have the stainless and Titanium that I tried to polish and was hard as can be! I think Amazon stopped carrying them but eBay is full of listings. 😃👍

[@davidhume2842]

@ I’ve been looking for the stainless and can only find the titanium, which is what I’ll probably have to settle for. If you ever wanna sell it, let me know! Thanks for the reply and th great content! Keep it up!

[@lordcelticfrost8686]

Happy hallowen....i got a very strange and personal tradition on hallowen...I always watch a movie...only in the hallowen nigth i watch the movie...the movie is "in the midnigth hour" from 1985...afther that i watch Michael Jackson "Thriller" the full video versión and eat something scary 😅😅😅....have a nice weekend....

[@stevenb.182]

Halloween......I got tired of the sullen, rude, older kids who would ring our doorbell, expecting (more like demanding) candy. Hell, they wouldn't even bother with a costume. Most of the time, they weren't even from the neighborhood. My "special" treat for them, was beef and chicken bouillon cubes. They are usually wrapped in foil....they look like candy. Have you even put one of those in your mouth....???!!!! I smile, every time I think about one of those little sh*ts, popping one of those in his mouth, thinking that it was chocolate!

[@robfalcon3404]

Bet george remembers them wooly mammoths😅😅

[@ScoutCrafter]

😂

[@donl1410]

I'm sorry, but chalking and all that shit is what has ruined Hallowe'en for everyone!! As kid, trying to go out and have fun and not be BULLIED by a bunch of assholes is not having fun. Hey, it's not bootcamp, remember that FUN. YEA!! I'm a long time subscriber.

[@Reggyontheroad]

Gotcha boom👍👍🔩🔩