Tung sol bulbs
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 6:04 pm
Does anyone know what car these bulbs are for? Never seen ones this large before.
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Re: Tung sol bulbs
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 6:25 pm
Magneto bulbs IF more than 6 volt.
Re: Tung sol bulbs
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 6:30 pm
They're 6-8 volt
Re: Tung sol bulbs
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 6:53 pm
This discussion say 6-8 ones are not magneto and may be for 1919 cars with clear lens. https://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/4 ... 1389583012
Re: Tung sol bulbs
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 6:56 pm
They seem similar to those used in the 1916 Maxwell, mine still has a pair in its flat lensed headlamps.
Re: Tung sol bulbs
Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2024 9:07 pm
I'd like to see the base in detail. The business end looks like some mag bulbs I've used.
Re: Tung sol bulbs
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 7:08 am
They certainly are of early manufacture. It did not take bulb makers too long before they went to eliminating the pimple in the globe bowl and shifting it to the tail of the bulb, where it was covered by the socket.
Allan from down under.
Allan from down under.
Re: Tung sol bulbs
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 7:22 am
Took a look, and the ones I have are smaller, by National Mazda.
Re: Tung sol bulbs
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 2:49 pm
If both bulbs in Tad's photo have the same base, they will both fit a 1915 socket. I'm not saying they're both mag bulbs, because there are bulbs with the same base that don't make good mag bulbs. The last I knew that included the product sold by Model T parts dealers as a mag bulb. It will fit but is uselessly dim.
Re: Tung sol bulbs
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 9:31 pm
Steve Jelf wrote: ↑Fri Nov 22, 2024 9:07 pmI'd like to see the base in detail. The business end looks like some mag bulbs I've used.
Re: Tung sol bulbs
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2024 1:59 am
Nope, not like any mag bulb I've ever used.
Any bulbs I've ever used in mag lights had even pins and two contacts 90º from the pins.