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Tim W writes:
John
wibbled on Tuesday 13 October 2009 15:29

I would like a modern circular but the choice is almost nil. One that I
saw in a National Trust Cafe was this - with a T5 tube. But alas too
costly to have two of them:

http://www.hacel.net/pages/product-r...us-surface.php

That looks really nice. How much?

I've wondered why circular tube fittings all seem to look like this:

http://www.qvsdirect.com/Circular-Fl...-pr-16736.html

It's *so* 1960's.

One style I saw a lot of in the US in the 1960's was a nest of 2 or 3
different sized circular tubes inside each other with the inner ones
slightly lower forming a cone of tubes. I rather liked those at the
time, but I've never seen them here. Only other place I ever saw them
was in a bar-come-cafe in France. The US circular tubes go one size
smaller than we have here -- I think their smallest is 20W -- which
makes such a design more practical. They also have single ballasts
which are desiged to run multiple different power circular tubes too.

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