grahamrobertslx Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Hi Guys/Gals Im looking for a storage idea for storing Golfball lamps for festoon so they dont all come back broken from site? Anybody have any nifty ideas? Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsabre Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Im looking for a storage idea for storing Golfball lamps for festoon so they dont all come back broken from site? Anybody have any nifty ideas? Egg boxes? or those square egg trays - you can get plastic ones - http://www.chicken-house.co.uk/acatalog/yellow-plastic-egg-tray.htmlhttp://images1.chicken-house.co.uk/acatalog/yellow-egg-tray-300.jpgThen you just need to stop the marquee guys throwing the festoon on the floor because they want to take the tent down. That's how the last lot got broken... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerry davies Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Nice one Tim but possibly make your own out of spare foam? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam2 Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Does your venue have a bar ? if so the boxes in which some types of glasses are delivered are useful for storing lamps, provided that you save all the cardboard dividers and not just the outer carton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikienorth Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Bin bags and take the losses. Or leave them on the toon and coil them into a box/tray/stillage as you bring it down. At least that's how the kilometres of festoon I've done on greenfield events managed their lamps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Pearce Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Boxes lined with the extra thick bubble wrap seems to work for me (though I'm rarely moving more than 40 lamps). Don't seem to have any issues with lamps striking other lamps breaking them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbuckley Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Bin bags and take the losses. Or leave them on the toon and coil them into a box/tray/stillage as you bring it down. This has (or course) been discussed here before, and I seem to recall that this is the way the guys with a lot of festoons do it; the time involved in bulbing and unbulbing is the killer, compared to the occasional bulb loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GridGirl Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 Leave them on the string, lower carefully into large plastic water barrels lined with foam or bubble wrap. I know a few companies that do that with theirs and it seems to work well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyb Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 We have converted half of our hire stock strings to be lamped with a plastic led unit. We now leave the lamps fitted. The down side is that they are not dimmable and is the reason we have only done about half. So much easier on site though. It took us a long time to find a nice robust warm white but when we did we purchased 2000. Get in touch if you want to buy some from us. We have not come up with a nice way of transporting traditional lamps. I liked the egg box idea. Andrew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikienorth Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 Bin bags and take the losses. Or leave them on the toon and coil them into a box/tray/stillage as you bring it down. This has (or course) been discussed here before, and I seem to recall that this is the way the guys with a lot of festoons do it; the time involved in bulbing and unbulbing is the killer, compared to the occasional bulb loss. I'd like to add to my rather brisk post earlier, that the opaque LED golfball festoon globes, when they detach, take some breaking, and are easily glued back into place. They tend to bounce like a ping pong ball.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsabre Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 I'd like to add to my rather brisk post earlier, that the opaque LED golfball festoon globes, when they detach, take some breaking, and are easily glued back into place. They tend to bounce like a ping pong ball.... Not all of them, it depends where you buy them. Some are glass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon2ce Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 Im in the market for LED Plastic lamps for festoon but im not finding many options if you could make contact that would be great simon.wilson@cambridgeshirescouts.org.ukWe have converted half of our hire stock strings to be lamped with a plastic led unit. We now leave the lamps fitted. The down side is that they are not dimmable and is the reason we have only done about half. So much easier on site though. It took us a long time to find a nice robust warm white but when we did we purchased 2000. Get in touch if you want to buy some from us. We have not come up with a nice way of transporting traditional lamps. I liked the egg box idea. Andrew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 What sort of quantity are you after? http://cpc.farnell.com/v-tac/7232-vt-2053/lamp-led-golf-ball-3w-b22-2700k/dp/LP10633 or poundland might be your best bet for a few dozen. Great for quick lighting as there's no need to remove the lamps before crating it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinda0 Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 If you are looking at storing good old fashioned tungsten bulbs, I made this out of an old case and the boxes the bulbs came in. Just cut the lids off and filled the gaps with foam:I have another bigger one with 100+ bulbs in too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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