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Post by fluorex on Feb 17, 2007 8:02:10 GMT -5
I'm actually looking for info on a particular fluorescent fixture. I've seen these in many buildings from the 30's to 50's. I have no clue who manufactures the fixture but I have seen them with varying diffuser panels, both the eggcrate kind shown in the picture and another kind with concentric squares. Although I don't know the fixture make, I think the diffuser panels were made by United Plastics. The fixtures came in both 2X4 and 2X8 sizes which carried either 2 or 4 diffuser panels which were held in place by a center bar that was on a hinge and latched from the opposite end. The fixture box was like that of current surface modular 2X4's only there was the center bar instead of the door frame. The housing was either gray or white painted metal. Again, I don't know the make or model nuumber. If anyone has info on the fixtures or where I could acquire one that would be helpful. I have not seen them on ebay or anywhere. Thanks  |
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Post by Adam D. on Feb 17, 2007 16:24:21 GMT -5
Looks to be from the 60s or 70s. I did a search on google aout old fluoresent lighting and I get nothing...
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Post by Fanman on Feb 17, 2007 16:30:41 GMT -5
Those ceiling tiles like that always remind me of telegram paper or early computer punch cards. I've never seen a fixture like that.
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Post by Adam D. on Feb 17, 2007 16:48:23 GMT -5
I've seen that ceiling tile, even in my old high school before tearing it down. Alot of it contained asbestos...
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Post by fluorex on Feb 17, 2007 16:59:54 GMT -5
I remember those ceiling tiles from just about everywhere. Pretty much all of my old schools had them as well as other signifigant places from my lifetime. I like the way they look all though a lot of the old ones contained asbestos and low density wood fiber which is often flammable. I have seen a few small companies that sell them locally in large boxes for a price although the new ones are made from the same material Armstrong mineral fiber tiles from suspended ceilings are made from. I saw them here www.studiosupplier.com/page/page/1210089.htm and a couple of other places, none of them had the option of ordering online though. |
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Post by fluorex on Feb 17, 2007 17:17:10 GMT -5
Looks to be from the 60s or 70s. I did a search on google aout old fluoresent lighting and I get nothing... Thanks. 60's or 70's seems reasonable. The building it was in was built in 1938. I looked at google as well. It seems that there aren't very many pages on on fluorescent lighting on the web. I do have a few that I did solve the make on, one of which I was able to acquire a fixture from my school's demolition site.  This is a Westinghouse fixture made in 1965. I was able to acquire this one from the demolition site and its in my bedroom now. What I didn't know until I got it down was that it was actually a tandem unit of 2 four foot fixtures wired together and welded. I thought of trying to separate it back into 2 four foot fixtures although that would involve hacksawing it, re wiring it and making 2 duplicates of 1 of the endcaps, preferably the one that doesnt have its knockout missing. |
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Post by Adam D. on Feb 17, 2007 17:19:16 GMT -5
Very suprising to see them still being made. I don't ever see any new places being built with them being installed....
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2007 17:35:38 GMT -5
They're ugly to me! I have a friend who is in to this kind of stuff, I'll ask him next time I talk to him.
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Post by fluorex on Feb 24, 2007 7:50:47 GMT -5
Very suprising to see them still being made. I don't ever see any new places being built with them being installed.... They are probably not seen often since they are difficult to acquire. I do see them occasionally popping up in studios. They also had to redo the ceiling in an art studio where my dad volunteers and they used those tiles, except they used the ones with a straight grid of holes rather than the random drilled holes. Personally I like the random drilled holes better. |
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Post by derek anthony on Aug 12, 2009 23:56:29 GMT -5
there is a veterarians office around here with those lights. and also pro 300 lanes has those lights with a normal diffuser in them
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Post by Chris H. on Aug 13, 2009 14:22:54 GMT -5
Very cool egg crate. Those holey ceiling tiles kinda scare me for some reason..probably because they're old, and something could happen..idk. Weird.
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Post by Adam D. on Aug 25, 2009 13:24:38 GMT -5
Alot of those old holey ceiling tiles contain asbestos.. Tho i had to deal with them getting those Emerson Blenders out of an old bowling alley.. I didn't use any kind of a mask, it was a on the way home and kinda, get them now or never situations, due to seeing an opening in the building.. They acually still make those ceiling tiles.. Some of them contain asbestos and some not, depends on the year they band asbestos (196?)
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Post by Rick M. on Dec 24, 2009 23:56:54 GMT -5
I've seen those tiles before; I'd say the random drilled ones are better looking. ;D Cool tiles; too bad they have asbestos.
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Post by Cole S. on Dec 25, 2009 0:20:18 GMT -5
I LOVE the random hole ones. I go to a school that was completed in the very early 1900's and has had numerous additions up until the 90's I think. The band room is in a very transitional portion of the school (40's to 60's I'd say) and it has those tiles all over the walls. I suppose they contain asbestos...
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Post by Rick M. on Dec 25, 2009 11:45:45 GMT -5
Yep, I agree Cole, I do love those retro tiles!  |
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