What a fun adventure, than comes the puzzle! Brings me back to the other adventures in my collection (not currently working on any lights), of what joy I also have in restoring them. (Have to get back to them as a carrot on a stick given work stuff on my dance card at the moment.) Well done so far in great attention to detail = factory spec or better. Just as much fun as restoring a classic car, but lots cheaper and less time spent in getting done before moving onto another adventure for a hobby. Hope to see much more from you on fixtures. Ah' the adventure, what a great hobby! It for me also helps teach from how it was done in the past new techniques for how to make the lights I make or fix at work on modern stuff. Hope it does for you also... just the Rusty ETC clamp alone, all parts re-tapped and restored after treating and repairing or replacing. Lots of work but fun in now good as new.
Are you replacing the various fasteners say lamp base mounting screws etc. or restoring them also? I assume lamp socket taken apart with cement chipped out and after restoration replaced with high temp. silicone or actual furnace cement? On fasteners, I love how cheap stainless steel bronze and brass are these days for new and for most fixtures made after say 1950 I would normally replace everything. But I have over the years also cleaned up and re-tapped everything in keeping original, including replacing antique fasteners with other antiques at times as opposed to new. (I have a stock of new and old fasteners.)
Glad it's not texture paint... that's really hard to duplicate, almost as if stipled on - me looking at the #3606 I still have not brought back to work yet. Was initially worried in photos that you scraped all texture paint and did different color, but lucky it's the black and you found your match in paint. What did you do with the surface rust before painting? What steps did you use after removing it? Did you sand blast or sand? What to remove the fine dust?
What did you do on the reflector and what did you do to remove residue afterwards? Lamp base looks new? Again above on if restored, what did you do in detail?
My notes on how I did such things were posted years ago and updated over the years, interested in what you found and new techniques also written up. How did you restore the lamp socket or did you replace it?
Are you replacing the various fasteners say lamp base mounting screws etc. or restoring them also? I assume lamp socket taken apart with cement chipped out and after restoration replaced with high temp. silicone or actual furnace cement? On fasteners, I love how cheap stainless steel bronze and brass are these days for new and for most fixtures made after say 1950 I would normally replace everything. But I have over the years also cleaned up and re-tapped everything in keeping original, including replacing antique fasteners with other antiques at times as opposed to new. (I have a stock of new and old fasteners.)
Glad it's not texture paint... that's really hard to duplicate, almost as if stipled on - me looking at the #3606 I still have not brought back to work yet. Was initially worried in photos that you scraped all texture paint and did different color, but lucky it's the black and you found your match in paint. What did you do with the surface rust before painting? What steps did you use after removing it? Did you sand blast or sand? What to remove the fine dust?
What did you do on the reflector and what did you do to remove residue afterwards? Lamp base looks new? Again above on if restored, what did you do in detail?
My notes on how I did such things were posted years ago and updated over the years, interested in what you found and new techniques also written up. How did you restore the lamp socket or did you replace it?