I using it with my camera to capture closeup of the arcs of my MH lamps, and this exposes the filter to very high temperatures.
I don't scratch the filter.

Just saw this 2006 Ford Focus that was listed just this morning.

I'm expecting an EPIC Large Amount of money here soon in the next few days, possibly a week. Once that money is received, I will be able to begin
the search of the next car again, and I'll try my best to limit the amount for the car to just $3,000. The remaining amount of money will be used to
update my apartment significantly, and from there, my ability to SAVE UP money will also finally be back as well, since I'm cutting down a good portion
of my debt.
Yes, it really sucked that I had to let go of that beautiful sport car, and a lot of my dreams crashed and burned the moment it sold... but... now I'm
opening the door to more dreams. Obviously that is not the only epic Turboed sport car out there, at all. There are many, many more options. Since this
is the case, when the time is right, I will purchase another very similar sport car, just as long as I have my daily car as well.
The moment my daily car is in an accident, if I have a sport car, I will sell it, immediately. This is what I should have done when I lost my Pontiac G6.
But yep, once I get everything back on track, I will be in search for a motorcycle again, much before the search for the next sport car. Before the
motorcycle search begins, my apartment must be complete.
One thing I should mention about my apartment completion as well is that, I also plan on doing meet ups for us Lighting Enthusiasts/collectors here at
this apartment. Should be complete with all of this by the middle of next month, possibly earlier!

Sad to hear your Genesis is gone.

Have you found a daily car yet, or are you still searching?

@everyone - Are manufacturers known to have excess lamps leftover in their stock for years on end that are just waiting to be completed/shipped out? I’m starting to wonder if it’s possible that Philips had some of these lamps (possibly unetched) manufactured in the 90s or early 2000s lying around in 2010, so they just decided to etch them all real quick and sell them as a special order thing just to get rid of them. I  apologize if that theory sounds ridiculously far-fetched, but I really can’t think of another reason besides that, the mistake theory, and the foreign market theory, that these lamps would have ended up with that etch, date code, color, and being non-Alto. Unless Philips really was just making these under the hood in the late 2000s/early 2010 without so much as including them in a catalog. We may never know what the context is for this lamp.

I'm thinking either they were in a surplus store, in storage, or in Philips' storage and they wanted to get rid of them. I think most likely school storage since they leave tons of cases of lamps sitting around even though a few years ago a bunch of Polish Altos were left out next to a staircases for weeks until some people smashed them (during school hours.) I've seen F96T8s in a closet too but they don't relamp F96T8s anymore.

From what I've seen at school, I wouldn't even be that surprised seeing foreign market lamps!

Obviously I'm not sure about the whole World's Rarest fixture.

But if we're talking Polish, then it's Mesko OURZ 2250 fixtures, A-20 ORZ 5 fixtures and Elgo OUR / OUH 2x400 fixtures.

50s Polish Incandescent fixture named OB, made by A-23 Mazurskie Zakłady Near Giżycko in Wilkasy.

It is on a not-named road at the start of Brzeźniak village in Wielkopolska area. It is a public road take that intact.

@Emersyn - That’s a possibility. I wonder if they accidentally made a bunch of non-Alto F32T8/TL741s one day in 2010 and just decided to sell them off cheaper because they were incorrect. Maybe they went to some type of a surplus store and were sold off there.

You’re probably right about foreign lamps—they may not have the same order code. There are also just few countries that use F32T8s in general, besides North and Central America.

That’s alright about the photo.

It's probably Netherlands or Germany, though I guess Germany not...

I know that Trafficvisions were likely French due to the old version which was made by Mazda in 1992, named Modula.


Though Philips Originally was found in the Netherlands