Lightbulb question

[ruth]

Hi there

I'm looking to purchase ordinary lightbulbs with a hint of colour (peach, apricot) but with a small and standard screw fitting. They seem to be available with bayonet fittings but not with screw fittings of any size, large or small. Does anyone know if there are any manufacturers out there who make them at all?

Many thanks!

Ruth

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Have you tried Ikea? Just about all their stuff is screw fitting.

[Lurch]

On 16 Feb 2007 09:01:10 -0800, [e-mail] mused:

I'm a little lost.

What cap type exactly do you want? What is 'a small and standard screw fitting'? Do you mean you want lamps, the same physical size as a standard lightbulb but with an E27 Edison screw fitting and also the same body with a smaller screw cap?

Some colour ES capped lamps here;

Only SES ones I can see immediately are here;

[Great Scot]

Screw fitting lamps are known as ES (short for Edison Screw). ES lamps come in several screw sizes. This might help a little:

'm quite sure that you will find what you are searching for eventually. BELL (British Electric Lamps Ltd) of Wimbledon London SW something used to manufacture a very good range of SBC & SES lamps in various shapes, sizes and colours. I still use many of them from old stock bought some while ago. Don't know if the firm still exists. Good luck GS

[Pete C]

Hi,

Maybe try thinned light bulb paint, peach is lemon and pink, so yellow with a little red might work OK.

cheers, Pete.

[meow2222]

In case you dont find any, alternatives are gel filters and coloured reflectors. Apricot is dilute orange, so an orange reflector would peachify the total light output. Peach is yellow-orange. Nylon lampshades can also be used for this. Just a standard metal lampshade frame wound with coloured nylon tape.

Painting tends not to work well. Brushing gives valleys and ridges, the valleys let the white through and the ridges cut the light output down. It can be done, but one has to use a paint with much stronger colour than wanted, and accept fairly heavy light losses. Perhaps spraying would solve that issue.

Reflectors are probably easiest for pale colours like peach. You're then using cheap easily replaced bulbs instead of speciality priced and hard to find. Also you can use cfl if and when wanted.

CFLs come in pink from eurobatteries.com

NT

[ruth]

I have I'm afraid - good thought though....they stock lots of screw bulbs but none with just a hint of colour!

Ruth

[ruth]

I want a standard size bulb - the shape of the bulb doesn't doesn't matter particularly.

A standard screw fitting is what you find on 'standard' light bulbs and a small screw fitting is the smaller version of a standard screw fitting but also found on standard size light bulbs.

See above - yes.

I have no idea what an E27 Edison screw fitting is I'm afraid.

Yes - a standard bulb with a smaller screw cap - exactly.

Those aren't any good I'm afraid because I am looking for lightbulbs with a hint of colour rather than coloured lightbulbs. None of these have screw fittings either and so wouldn't be any good from that point of view either.

Not those either I'm afraid. i'm after a standard size bulb with a standard or small screw fitting.

Thanks for your help in any case...

Ruth

[ruth]

little:

- that's handy - thanks very much!

I'll take a look and see if I can track them down. The search continues :)

Thanks for the tips - much appreciated.

Ruth

[ruth]

What a great idea - that has never occured to me! I'll take a look and see if there are any pearlescent lightbulb paints where I could add a touch of colour. Thanks very much - that may be a good solution :)

Ruth

[ruth]

Brilliant - thanks very much - again, some more possible solutions - much appreciated. I find it quite odd that the bulbs with a hint of colour only seem to be manufactured in one fitting and not another - particularly because screw fittings have been around for a good few years now....

Many thanks once again

Ruth

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember [e-mail] saying something like:

I take it the colours you want are available in bayonet fitting? If your lampholders have enough depth you could use an adaptor from ES to BC.

One on ebay, though no picture...

've seen others around, just google.

[Lurch]

On 22 Feb 2007 07:11:52 -0800, [e-mail] mused:

Right.

Standard screw fitting, E27, or Edison Screw (ES).

A small screw cap is Small Edison Screw (SES).

Usually you'll find that standard size lamps come with full size caps and small lamps with smaller caps. Either way, the 2 are generally linked in some form so full size lamp = full size cap.

See above.

Right, like the ones that are often called 'soft tone' or similar?

Doubt you'll find one, but if you do it'll be expensive!

[ruth]

Hmmm...that's interesting - didn't know that you could get an adaptor from one to the other. Yep - the ones that I need do come in a boyonet fitting. Thanks very much for that - another avenue to investigate.

Ruth

[ruth]

Aha...

I see....

Yep.....clearer now :)

Thank you!

It looks as if no-one makes them but I now have a few other ideas to go on which is handy.

To be honest, I'm not fussed about the cost - odd that they're not being made, there must be a demand for them I would have thought.

Thanks for the info - appreciated.

Ruth

[meow2222]

Your light fittings must be something special for you not to want to replace them with sensible BC ones. Replacing just the holders might be an option.

NT