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My M-250R Mounted In my Room! Sporting my tall white Ripley, also recently aquired. Here the M-250R has been washed clean and will remain in this condition! This is aimed down because the way the slipfitter is designed, in order to adjust the leveling, you need a conventional wrench, not a socket wrech so after I took these pics I dug around in my dad's tool box and found a 9/16" wrench. It's very hard to adjust while the fixture is mounted to the pole though! Keywords: American_Streetlights

My M-250R Mounted In my Room!

Sporting my tall white Ripley, also recently aquired. Here the M-250R has been washed clean and will remain in this condition!

This is aimed down because the way the slipfitter is designed, in order to adjust the leveling, you need a conventional wrench, not a socket wrech so after I took these pics I dug around in my dad's tool box and found a 9/16" wrench. It's very hard to adjust while the fixture is mounted to the pole though!

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Filename:080414_068.JPG
Album name:Mike / My General Electric M-250R (1965)
Keywords:American_Streetlights
Filesize:241 KiB
Date added:Aug 05, 2014
Dimensions:1944 x 1137 pixels
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Color Space:sRGB
DateTime Original:2009:03:27 01:37:00
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Exposure Time:1/31352 sec
FNumber:f/2.8
Flash:No Flash
Focal length:28.8125 mm
Light Source:Unknown: 0
Make:Vivicam
Model:V5024
URL:http://www.galleryoflights.org/mb/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=17970
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Mercuryvapor123   [Aug 09, 2014 at 11:10 PM]
Nice, I never knew the model with the thumb latch was painted silver. I always thought it was the earlier ones.
streetlight98   [Aug 10, 2014 at 12:50 AM]
The 1960 to 1965 ones were silver and the 1966-1969 ones were gray. The 1960 to 1964 ones had no thumb tab. The ones from 1965-1969 had the thumb tabs. So there was a one-year overlap where the thumb tab units had silver paint. Smile
Mercuryvapor123   [Aug 10, 2014 at 01:12 AM]
Ahh I see, Thanks. Very Happy
NiMo   [Aug 10, 2014 at 02:09 PM]
I have three luminaires with the same type of slipfitter, two M400s and an M1000 all from the mid-60s and I was able to use a 9/16 shallow socket with a 3/8" drive.
streetlight98   [Aug 10, 2014 at 03:50 PM]
I think I was able to use my socket wrench before I replaced the ballasts. The old ballast was a 240V 100W MV reactor. I put in a 175W MV 120/240V GE ballast from 1966, one year after this light was made.

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