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Uranium glass headlights!
Frank:
Apologies you cover it here http://uranglass.gooside.com/UGjapan/UGjapan.htm thank you.
mrvaselineglass:
I am in the USA, and I have a friend who has one of these headlights, and it is working and he put a blacklight bulb in it. It is kinda cool! I think he paid about $500 for it. On all the streetcar lights I have seen, it is the reflector along the back surface that is made from uranium glass........except I have one that is the lens and it is made out of vaseline/uranium/canary glass (depending on what country you are in and what you call it). From the outer rim to the top of the dome, it is over an inch thick and is convex. The lens in the middle works and in bright sunlight, you can concentrate the sun enough to start a fire. The neat part....It was made by Corning. On the rim, it says CORNING MONEX, and a U.S. Pat. date of 12-9-13. My lens has a few dings on it....but hey, it is 97 years old! I have had it for about 12 years. On another topic, I also have some old neon yellow uranium tubing that was made by Corning. When installed in a Neon light, it glows green, without any UV rays. If you go to www.vaselineglass.org, the VGCI logo at the top of the page is a neon light our club made with corning uranium tubing.
Mr. Vaseline Glass
Mod: Web address corrected.
Lustrousstone:
Welcome. I've enjoyed your club's website many times.
David E:
Welcome to the GMB and we all look forward to further contributions from Japan!
Congratulations on the site - most informative :hiclp:
Frank:
--- Quote from: mrvaselineglass on December 02, 2010, 04:38:39 AM ---The neat part....It was made by Corning. On the rim, it says CORNING MONEX, and a U.S. Pat. date of 12-9-13....
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It might just have been made in Scotland, for Corning. Although I have no evidence that they did produce uranium glass. Are you sure it is Monex not Monax? Moncrieff and Corning had some legal battles as both were making near identical 'pyrex' ended up with Moncrieff making for Corning in US as part of the solution deal. Moncrieff had no interest in domestic products and allowed Corning to license Pyrex production in the UK. Corning were also allowed to use Monax a Moncrieff trademark in restricted markets. Unfortunately no detailed records of the deals.
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