35w Revo Lucidor, after bowls restoration
Acquired sometime last month, its believed this Revo Lucidor saw service somewhere in Wolverhampton, an area where they saw good popularity. Its overall condition is brilliant, and despite how the bowl looked when I received it, I made sure to give that some extra attention, seeing how good a (hidden) condition it was in.
I believe these bowls were cast by using a resinous product very similar to the resin used in Fibreglass, owing to the fact theres no dip circles usually left from injection moulding, and the surface actually cracking over the years rather than just yellowing or going milky. It also smells the same as a fibreglass face on a internally lit sign I saved not so long ago. The longer this cracking happens, the more brittle the plastic becomes, and the more dirt is trapped, hence the brown almost black colour they always seem to get. I decided to wet dry sand it to remove the cracking and restore the clear properties back to this old plastic. Seven hours of sanding, and polishing later, the results are absolutely spectacular. I will now restore the lantern in its entirety so the now restored bowl can be shown off in greater detail.

35w Revo Lucidor, after bowls restoration

Acquired sometime last month, its believed this Revo Lucidor saw service somewhere in Wolverhampton, an area where they saw good popularity. Its overall condition is brilliant, and despite how the bowl looked when I received it, I made sure to give that some extra attention, seeing how good a (hidden) condition it was in.
I believe these bowls were cast by using a resinous product very similar to the resin used in Fibreglass, owing to the fact theres no dip circles usually left from injection moulding, and the surface actually cracking over the years rather than just yellowing or going milky. It also smells the same as a fibreglass face on a internally lit sign I saved not so long ago. The longer this cracking happens, the more brittle the plastic becomes, and the more dirt is trapped, hence the brown almost black colour they always seem to get. I decided to wet dry sand it to remove the cracking and restore the clear properties back to this old plastic. Seven hours of sanding, and polishing later, the results are absolutely spectacular. I will now restore the lantern in its entirety so the now restored bowl can be shown off in greater detail.

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Ash   [27 Sep, 2020 at 10:14 AM]
Awesome restoration

The circles from injection moulding remain from extraction pins. They are not always used in large parts, if the shape is such that makes it easy to pull out of the mould by hand. In parts made by spinning (rather than injection) there won't be an injection port either

However if the refractors are on the inside, this must have been injected or made by a similar process, and in 2 parts then stuck together

There might have bigger edge that had been cut off after moulding, similar to blown PMMA bowls on Fluorescent icepacks
AngryHorse   [27 Sep, 2020 at 07:24 PM]
That’s cleaned up well, you don’t normally see these with good bowls Cool
lampy   [14 Oct, 2020 at 10:12 PM]
ive got this same lantern and mine was from wolverhampton, never seen a bowl on one of these that clear and shiny though, yes it is a strange plastic they used on these, it does smell odd like you say, some of these bowls go totally dull and rough to touch, i have however got a 90 watt sox version with an original bowl that is acylic as its totally clear like glass to look at and its not new old stock it was off a 1970's install
lampy   [09 Dec, 2020 at 09:43 PM]
the foam gaskets on these also shrink back into hard blobs of black gunk, anyone who has one of these lanterns will know what i'm on about here lol

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