Pair of Revo long well glass fittings
Yesterday (01/04/24) I went to a local antiques fair boasting around 200 - 300 stalls. As I was casually strolling around, I spotted on a stall indoors a long well glass. Not actually thinking much of it, since I don't have the well glass for it, I left it. By this point I'd walked pretty much the whole venue taking around 4 hours to get around. As I caught up with the parents, my Dad pointed out the well glass on the swan neck bracket perched on a chair. I asked the seller about it and he said it was a fiver due to its very poor condition, missing the well glass and also having a damage lamp holder. Just to the left of this first well glass was the second fitting, mounted on a piece of conduit intended as a drop rod from a ceiling, that's when I realised the well glass I spotted at the far end of the venue matched the one present. I paid for both lights, and then practically ran back over to the other stall to buy that well glass, leaving me with two now fully intact fittings.

Getting both back home, I was able to inspect the condition of both, honestly it was dire. The original wing nuts were simply pressed steel, and were so rusted they were almost flat washers. I took some M6 brass wing nuts and rethreaded them to 1/4" BSW thread, allowing me to replace the knackered original wing nuts. The drop rod was removed and binned from the left fitting, and the swan neck was almost rotted away to nothing by what was left of the wall mounting plate. I cut the metal back as much as I had to to allow me to cut some new threads into more solid metal. This now leaves restoration, and both will go my usual black exterior white interior.

Pair of Revo long well glass fittings

Yesterday (01/04/24) I went to a local antiques fair boasting around 200 - 300 stalls. As I was casually strolling around, I spotted on a stall indoors a long well glass. Not actually thinking much of it, since I don't have the well glass for it, I left it. By this point I'd walked pretty much the whole venue taking around 4 hours to get around. As I caught up with the parents, my Dad pointed out the well glass on the swan neck bracket perched on a chair. I asked the seller about it and he said it was a fiver due to its very poor condition, missing the well glass and also having a damage lamp holder. Just to the left of this first well glass was the second fitting, mounted on a piece of conduit intended as a drop rod from a ceiling, that's when I realised the well glass I spotted at the far end of the venue matched the one present. I paid for both lights, and then practically ran back over to the other stall to buy that well glass, leaving me with two now fully intact fittings.

Getting both back home, I was able to inspect the condition of both, honestly it was dire. The original wing nuts were simply pressed steel, and were so rusted they were almost flat washers. I took some M6 brass wing nuts and rethreaded them to 1/4" BSW thread, allowing me to replace the knackered original wing nuts. The drop rod was removed and binned from the left fitting, and the swan neck was almost rotted away to nothing by what was left of the wall mounting plate. I cut the metal back as much as I had to to allow me to cut some new threads into more solid metal. This now leaves restoration, and both will go my usual black exterior white interior.

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