Mercury Newlec bollard
For the longest time, my winter garden lighting has consisted of a SOX lantern mounted on the house, and a SON bollard light mounted in front of my main collection shed at the far end of the garden. This now left a large dark'ish patch between both of those lights, hence my search for a MBF bollard began. 

I was given this bollard by a fellow collector, its brand new and did run 70w SON-I, however since its still a rather common light, I decided to convert it to mercury. I used as close to brand new control gear as I could, and gave it a respray to freshen it up and add better protection to the paintwork. I poured a concrete bed, before drilling the slab to allow the cable to pass through, and then stuck the slab into place with more (and this time very damp) concrete. After, I secured the base to the slab, sealed just about everything I could, and wired it all into place. The wiring was all installed long ago, and much like the SON bollard I've taken the opportunity to install a manual override to allow me to demonstrate lamps with ease on correct control gear.

At night, it lights the area brilliantly well, overall its been well worth installing.

Mercury Newlec bollard

For the longest time, my winter garden lighting has consisted of a SOX lantern mounted on the house, and a SON bollard light mounted in front of my main collection shed at the far end of the garden. This now left a large dark'ish patch between both of those lights, hence my search for a MBF bollard began.

I was given this bollard by a fellow collector, its brand new and did run 70w SON-I, however since its still a rather common light, I decided to convert it to mercury. I used as close to brand new control gear as I could, and gave it a respray to freshen it up and add better protection to the paintwork. I poured a concrete bed, before drilling the slab to allow the cable to pass through, and then stuck the slab into place with more (and this time very damp) concrete. After, I secured the base to the slab, sealed just about everything I could, and wired it all into place. The wiring was all installed long ago, and much like the SON bollard I've taken the opportunity to install a manual override to allow me to demonstrate lamps with ease on correct control gear.

At night, it lights the area brilliantly well, overall its been well worth installing.

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AngryHorse   [16 Nov, 2021 at 09:40 PM]
Bollards would look awesome in streets!, shame they’d get vandalised pretty quick though Confused
FrontSideBus   [17 Nov, 2021 at 12:18 AM]
Get knocked over by shit drivers first I reckon lol.

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