How to Refurbish Vintage Christmas Light Bulbs - Part 1 | CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2022!!

Welcome to the Vintage Christmas Lights UK YouTube Channel.

Here we are, sharing all the secrets in a two part series on how we refurbish and revitalize old and worn Christmas light bulbs, specifically, mini bulbs, pepper lamps, Lilliput lamps etc.

This method works on most bulbs, small and large, push-in or screw in.

Link to the Bulb Paint: https://www.conrad.com/p/bulb-dipping-paint-red-yellow-green-blue-violet-orange-723000

It may seem expensive, but I have painted many hundreds of bulbs for dozens of sets of lights, I still have paint left in all the bottles and I bought them in 2013!

Apologies for the lack of content, I will endeavour to give you more content in the next few weeks.

I hope you enjoyed this new video!

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We will be slowly adding videos over the next few weeks, we have been filming multiple videos featuring classic sets of Christmas Lights that were sold in the UK, how to fix and restore them, guides, tips, hints and guides, plus videos of unique lights in operation.

If you have any interesting Christmas Light videos that we could add to are archive then leave a comment below with a link to the video, and it will be added, none of our videos are monetized and are here for all to view and enjoy. ;)

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A little 'light' history.

The early 90's were the beginning of the end for 'classic' style Christmas light sets, new manufacturing and safety laws saw the delicate thinner cables replaced with thick and bulky black cables for 240v sets of lights making them look cumbersome and chunky, NOMA still produce some 'classic style' sets of lights, identical to the late 80's lights but unfortunately with this thick cable.

Over the years, Christmas lights have been replaced with characterless, shadeless sets of lights, then eventually the domination of LED lights.

We do hope that one of the legacy firms like PIFCO or NOMA bring back the classic style lights, perhaps in low voltage LED form in sets of 20 and 40, and possibly 60-100 too with the old style shades, a mix and match option would be brilliant.

What do you think ?

Don't get me wrong, there are some modern lights I do like, and I will try to do some videos about them too

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00:00 - Title Card
00:10 - Intro
00:16 - Equipment List
00:37 - Bulb Paint 1
02:15 - Worn Pink Bulb
02:47 - Pink Bulb Inserts
03:13 - Yellow Bulbs Don't Fade
03:19 - Greening on Blue Bulbs
03:34 - Red Bulbs
03:41 - Green Bulbs
03:47 - Cheaper Bulbs
03:55 - The Bulb Paint 2
04:47 - Link Below
05:10 - Advanced Bulb Holder
05:32 - Let's Get Started
06:22 - Credit to Woolworths
06:48 - Outro