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Re: Pegasus neon

Posted By: Chris.oh
Date: Thursday, 26 July 2012, at 12:08 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Pegasus neon (SVP Neon Equipment)

This particular sign does have housing holes. It also has a couple of surface jumps. The sign came to the shop with peanut housings, electronic transformers which seem to be about 12 years old or so, and a number is spring tube supports. My initial reaction was that the sign may have been a shoe-box style, and had been "updated" with new wiring. This initial thought was due to the scary thought of someone trying to drill a housing hole through porcelain finish.

Since my post, I have opened it up, and can see that it does have key-holed brackets on the inside, and that one of the housings is located directly on top of a shadow of an internal piece of framework, which had been intentionally removed (broken welds are visible). I am not sure how they managed to drill a clean hole through the finish, some are a little chipped, but not nowhere near what I would expect for a retro-fit through porcelain.

Thanks for your input Mark! As I said, I have found a dozen or so neon fit ones online with the three inch returns, but no two of them "match" as far as I can tell.

All things considered, it will be a nice sign once I'm done fixing it, boxing the back in for strength, and cleaning it. It even has a little animation in the wings. The customer is happy with it, even with my having to tell him it's not 100% authentic.

> A lot of the original Mobil Pegasus signs
> had neon. It is unlikely that one with only
> a 3" return did though. Those that did
> would have holes in the face where the
> housings were/are. If there are no holes, or
> areas where the holes have been blocked off,
> it probably didn't have neon originally.

Messages In This Thread

• Pegasus neon -- Chris.oh -- Tuesday, 24 July 2012, at 10:40 p.m.
  • Re: Pegasus neon -- SVP Neon Equipment -- Wednesday, 25 July 2012, at 5:43 p.m.
    • Re: Pegasus neon -- Chris.oh -- Thursday, 26 July 2012, at 12:08 a.m.
      • Re: Pegasus neon -- SVP Neon Equipment -- Friday, 27 July 2012, at 11:19 a.m.
        • Re: Pegasus neon -- Chris.oh -- Tuesday, 28 August 2012, at 1:47 a.m.

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