People can either have quality,or they can have cheap.
The overwhelming majority of people in this country
decided they want cheap. So everything is made in
China now,due to the trend we started years ago. It's
our own fault nothing is built well anymore.
Funny you should mention cheap lights. I bought a
$36.00 100 watt dusk-to-dawn mercury light for my
garage at Home Despot,and all was well. It was
Chinese,but I couldn't find anything that wasn't.
I decided to go back and buy another for my
outbuilding,and went through the trouble to install
it,but when I took the mercury bulb out of it's
sleeve,I could see the bulb was bad. Took the light
back,but they didn't have any more. So I went to
another Home Despot yesterday,and I found that they
were well-stocked with these lights. I opened one up
to inspect the bulb - bad. Opened another,and it was
bad too.
BUT,I found a light fixture made by "Lights Of
America" that was actually made in the USA! So I
bought it,paid ten dollars more,and I could not
possibly be any happier! Except it didn't come with a
bulb. But once I go back to the store and get a
Chinese flourescent bulb for it,you could not make me
more happy!
Steve P.
--- Terrible Tom <silvereightynine@aol.com> wrote:
>
> I just spent an hour and a half installing a new
> fluorescent lamp unit
> down in my basement. The 4 lamps down there are old
> - kinda cheap units
> - with yellowed and cracked covers. So rather than
> putz with old lamps I
> went to Lowes tonight and bought 4 new replacements
> and a new bulk box
> of T40 tubes - no I did not want to pop for the
> added expense for T8
> fixtures and tubes.
>
> Curse at the former owner of the house for not
> marking in the breaker
> panel what breakers power what circuits. Stand there
> flicking breakers
> on and off till I find the ones I want and get
> cursed at by the people
> above me because I'm fucking around with all the
> lights in the house...
> Slice up my hands fighting with the thin sheet metal
> housings, swear,
> drop screws, curse, yell at the cat under my feet,
> spew vulgarities at
> the cordless drill that decided it didn't want to be
> charged anymore
> when I was in the middle of using it.
>
> Finally get the damned thing wired up - turn power
> back on - flip the
> switch - all the tubes do is flicker as if the thing
> has a bad
> ballast!!! I swapped those tubes into one of the
> old fixtures still up
> - and they light up just fine.
>
> -----insert loud vulgar rant of your favorite swear
> words here-----
>
> I swapped out all the old tubes for new ones that
> were meant for the new
> fixtured... and its nice and bright down there
> again. All the new lamps
> are going back to Lowes and I'm just sticking with
> the new tubes. Save
> myself $100 that way.
>
>
> You can't get quality anything any more!!
> Interesting now that I think
> about it - the fixture at the store display in the
> isle was flickering
> just like mine did. That should have been a red
> flag.
>
> Going to sleep...
>
> --
>
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