Vintage & industrial lighting — free pickup in Albuquerque (new-in-box fixtures too)

Factory, warehouse and barn lights

• RLM dome shades: porcelain enamel, green-and-white.
• Enamel gooseneck barn and warehouse lights (Benjamin, Abolite).
• Holophane and other prismatic-glass pendants, globes and shades.
• Cage and guard lights (Stonco, Crouse-Hinds, Appleton).
• Explosion-proof and vapor-tight fixtures with glass globes (Crouse-Hinds, Appleton, Killark).
• Railroad and ship lights (Pyle-National), bulkhead and nautical cage lights.
• Old cast-iron street and parking-lot lamp heads — only ones that are yours to give.
• Machinist and task lamps: O.C. White, Dazor, Luxo.

School, store, theater and film lights

• Schoolhouse pendants and milk-glass shades.
• Art Deco slip-shade fixtures.
• Marquee lights and marquee letters.
• Stage and film lights: Kliegl, Century, Strand, Altman, Mole-Richardson.
• Vintage exam and dental lights.
• Glass shades on their own.

House lighting worth saving

• Victorian gas-electric and early electric fixtures.
• Brass, crystal and Art Deco chandeliers and sconces.
• Mid-century fixtures and lamps: Lightolier, Gerald Thurston, Moe Light, Laurel, Stiffel, sputnik chandeliers, bubble lamps.
• New Mexico punched-tin fixtures.
• Original fixtures from 1950s ranch houses — more on mid-century house parts.

New in the box: contractor overstock and closings

• LED high bays, wall packs, troffers, emergency and exit lights, track and recessed lighting (Lithonia, RAB, Cooper, Juno, Halo).
• Landscape lighting (Kichler, FX Luminaire).

Where it comes from: a cancelled job, a supply-house return shelf, an electrician retiring or a store closing. Photo the boxes, the labels and the count.

Down, or still wired in?

Have an electrician take down anything that’s wired in; I pick up once it’s down. In a building that’s closing, send a photo of what’s on the floor and ask.

What to photograph

1. The fixture.
2. Any label — inside the canopy, on the socket housing or on the box.
3. A close-up of the glass (chips, cracks).
4. The count — a matched set of twelve is a different lead from one.
5. A rough size.

Text the photos to (505) 250-3804.

What I don’t take

• Builder-grade and big-box fixtures from the last few decades — Habitat ReStore takes lighting fixtures in good shape (call to confirm).
• Used fluorescent troffers and shop lights, and old fluorescent fixtures and ballasts. The EPA says fluorescent light ballasts made before July 1, 1979 may contain PCBs (EPA).
• Any fixture that still has its original pre-1979 ballast or capacitor — fluorescent or HID, including old mercury-vapor high bays. Have an electrician remove the ballast first, or ask.
• Loose fluorescent tubes, CFLs and HID bulbs, which contain mercury. Household ones go to the City’s Household Hazardous Waste Collection Center; business lamps follow the state’s hazardous-waste rules.
• Broken glass with no fixture.
• Anything still wired in.

Signs that light up

Neon, lighted clocks and marquee letters — photo first, because the glass is fragile. Porcelain and tin signs are on my want list too.

When old lights come down

• A shop, restaurant or office closing — business closing pickup.
• A warehouse or factory clear-out — industrial equipment removal.
• An old-house or mid-century remodel — architectural salvage and door hardware.
• An electrician’s or contractor’s overstock — photo the boxes and the count.
• An estate with the lamps — estate cleanouts.

Tell me your deadline and I’ll say honestly whether I can make it. The city of Albuquerque is my usual area. Rio Rancho, Corrales, Los Ranchos, Tijeras and the East Mountains are case by case, and Bernalillo, Placitas, Algodones, Los Lunas, Bosque Farms, Peralta, Belen and Edgewood are usually out of range — text a photo with your ZIP.

Text me a photo of the fixtures → Or use the request form