Vintage Street Light Restoration

[@TigerBoyRS]

Now, that's A proper restoration. Absolutely no part was was left untouched. Beautifully done video, with the real sound. Cheers 💡

[@ZanyJIntPictures]

I miss seeing those at night!!!!

[@mernokimuvek]

Great to see someone saving these. I hate metal scrappers with a passion.

[@deanmccool213]

I like the high pressure sodium street lights over the modern LED street lights.

[@ZanyJIntPictures]

OHHH YES!!!!! you used my all time favorite merc bulb; the 175 Phillips/Westy BT H39!!!! Man that vintage AE photocell is a big, beefy, beauty!!!!! Those type there, are rock tough, built to last a long time!!!!

[@joepayette511]

I like to see the vintage street light heads to continue i love the yellow lights

[@DOOMESDAYS]

Them damn LED killed all them all

[@lukecolley1844]

This is absolutely amazing. I have two OV-25 400W Mercury vapor ones, going to restore one and keep the other one untouched.

[@CLstreetlightschile]

Beautiful fixture

[@ZanyJIntPictures]

I really enjoyed how you took the time to really go over every area; even the parts that no one would be seeing from the outside... "Very meticulous..."

[@theray2009]

Beautiful restoration #savetheoldstreetlights

[@khaid12345]

Freakin Legend gave it a Sylvania 175w Clear MV Lamp! Definitely deserves a like

[@cameronhunt5989]

Do More Street Lights Restoration.

[@nitro3543]

Please upload another vid these are great videos

[@EdmontonRails]

Beautiful work, it's alarming how many "industry professionals" within municipalities and utility companies will replace these old fixtures with LED streetlights and credit the brighter results to LED technology without considering the worn conditions of the previous fixtures.

[@millvee1005]

Good job I love streetlights

[@hugoyau8299]

This is love. Many guys wish yesterday once more, lovely yesterday for sure. Handwork instead of industrial production means tradition, love of creating things. Tln likes to this video.

[@Snowcube]

Amazing restoration! Looks new!

[@AngelHernandez-ls5wr]

Beautiful restoration...👍

[@lesterantoniobonilla1998]

Amazing restoration 🤩🤩👍👌

[@ryanfreitag1489]

Wow amazing restoration. Now I want to restore some of my street lights lol. Great job.

[@dhouser1695]

Great job on the restore of the westinghouse street light

[@the-yz-546]

I love how you keep the control gear for HID lamp instead of replacing them with stupid LED retrofit crap.

[@Bigmeatslapper]

LED's are boring I mean a HID lamps are just more interesting and quite a bit brighter

[@the-yz-546]

Nope, Philips did a great job to make a high quality LED streetlight like BRP series unlike those china made single COB Street Light

[@the-yz-546]

Like Philips BRP372 in Jakarta, they installed them in 2013 but they still remain good light output to this day.

[@BRISTOLFORCE2009]

@@the-yz-546all LED’s are garbage

[@GERALD_786]

​@@BRISTOLFORCE2009 not really, led do have tendency to literally give up after 2 year but high quality one can last up to 7 years while maintaining light output, its not a perfect lighting technology but its great

[@dhouser1695]

I have that same street light that i got from a lighting company that was changing them out in my home town

[@ZanyJIntPictures]

I like the old style photsockets, with the securing screws; the (cheaper ones,) that are secured with a crimp washer, just wont stay put for long...

[@brandondavis233]

Great video man

[@AngelHernandez-ls5wr]

Wow...I Love it!!!👍

[@jamiecrisp5084]

Hello Incandia Neon i do streetlight restore work myself i have a cooper OVL 1000w version of that fixture it is a newer version of the Westinghouse OV 50 i had to rewire it after it caught fire but it is working great today.

[@dylanoakes9557]

Could you please upload a video of it, I would like to see it

[@jamiecrisp5084]

@@dylanoakes9557 Hello Dillon yes i can try to im new to uploading it may take some time i also have other vintage fixtures by GE like the HLX ,M400s, and M1000s i will see what i can do.

[@TexasRailfan2008]

Jamie Crisp how did it catch fire.

[@jamiecrisp5084]

​@@TexasRailfan2008 Hello it caught fire by an internal short in the ballast burning a good bit of the wiring inside no damage to the external housing the ballast in it was the original ballast made by cooper it was wired for 208 volts and had to be rewired from the photocell to the terminal block i have a Universal brand ballast in it now the original ballast is discontinued. I also have other fixtures that may interest you like { GE HLXs, M1000s, and M400s, } Magnaray fluorescent sign lights and Hubbell Magnuliters.

[@dylanoakes9557]

Great job, where did you get this from? I have a Cooper OVX 250 watt metal halide fixture and a American Electric 115 175 watt Mercury Vapor fixture but would like to have a older vintage cobrahead in my collection

[@incandianeon]

This light was used by San Francisco's DOT, and later salvaged and used as a parking lot light for a restaurant, to which was being renovated and gutted, so I inquired about and got it from the owner.

[@nickrod9526]

Ahh, the "SMALLER" version of the Westinghouse Silverliner.

[@smithandsuperdeadeyeofthew823]

That kind of light there used to be lots of them in Illinois but they were all replaced by LED There's still some left in the older parts of Illinois

[@dhouser1695]

My silverline ov15 is from 1966

[@polarslightssignals2742]

I have an extra westinghouse glass lens that would fit that. Would you like me to send it to you so that it will match your light?

[@incandianeon]

I truly appreciate your help, I will let you know. Thank you very much!

[@judithpabon7035]

Wow this is very clean and restored love it comment me thank you

[@brandondavis233]

What kind of cleaner did u use on the parts and could you possibly do a video on how to wire a cord to a street light

[@madmonkeyxx2978]

she is a old street light man she still worked

[@DOOMESDAYS]

Till the LED took over

[@Sirenfan5830]

Were did u buy that smart photocell

[@the-yz-546]

Sadly the socket can't be used for pulse start Metal Halide or High Pressure Sodium otherwise the Westinghouse logo on the socket pin will be melted

[@zackcacciapalle6405]

Wow! You did an amazing job on that light! Are you on Lighting-Gallery.net?

[@djnye215]

BRO I CANT FIND THAT PLASTIC REFRACTOR ANYWHER!!

[@ALT-9167]

Looks like you need a Fisher Pierce PhotoControl and a Holophane 4215 lens for it, that Ge one is not original

[@Snoopy-fo9wt]

Acryl reflextor ? From ebay ?

[@Ni5ei]

Why didn't you sandblast the thing? No chemicals and much quicker.

[@incandianeon]

I wish I had the room, and financial resources to own one.

[@jackleger2414]

@@incandianeon as do I.. i'll just keep doing my thing with paint stripper and sandpaper/wire wheels though 😎

[@Drago_Tyson]

26:48 lol xD

[@InsulatorsStreetlightsAndMore]

I have one of these. i do have a vid of it

[@GERALD_786]

That refractor look like someones dog pissed on it

[@loudspeakertestsmorebyaida3804]

Why wouldn’t you retrofit to LED?

[@incandianeon]

Because the purpose of this video was to restore, meaning bringing back this luminaire to its accurate original self when it left the factory. Videos stripping a light fixture to LED are aplenty and have their place on KZbin, but I find converting something old to LEDs rather uninspiring and likely will never go that route.

[@loudspeakertestsmorebyaida3804]

@@incandianeon Yeah. I wouldn’t retrofit one of these vintage fixtures either. I like these lights as a collector’s item. I just wouldn’t use mercury vapor for typical applications anymore, but they are definitely worth keeping as a collection. They are cool lights and were a great light source at the time.

[@EdmontonRails]

Because that would be a downgrade.

[@loudspeakertestsmorebyaida3804]

@@EdmontonRails Yeah, I like the vintage light better. LED causes light spillage and glare.

[@BRISTOLFORCE2009]

@@EdmontonRailscorrection: LED’s are a downgrade