CTT Question & Answer of the Week - September 23, 2005

[Jumijo]

Question & Answer of the Week - September 23, 2005
From the pages of CLASSIC TOY TRAINS magazine, Ray L. Plummer and the CTT staff offer a Question & Answer of the week.

This week: Flaking light bulbs:

http://www.trains.com/Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/006/178qoalj.asp

[lionelsoni]

Silicone-rubber boots have long been available for coloring small lamps:

http://www.normanlamps.com/silicone_boots.htm

The shape and size of a lamp are given by a letter, like T for tube or G for globe, and a number, which is the diameter in eighths of an inch. For example, a 14.4-volt number 53 lamp is a G-3.5.

It seems that you can also buy paint specifically intended for painting incandescent lamps:

http://www.streetbeatcustoms.com/bulandtailli1.html

[ChiefEagles]

I've had right good sucess with painting them. [?]

[ben10ben]

I've been told that automotive engine paint can be used sucessfully to repaint bulbs.