Well I just received this SB fiber optic lamp on Wednesday 3/11. It's kind of strange how I came across it, but if you wanna avoid a potentially boring story then you can go straight to the pics on my page. ;O) I had them in order from #1-22 but they got posted in the opposite order.
No pics of it lit up yet... I'll try to get them tonight. And I haven't cleaned any of it yet so it's still dirty...
On 2/26 Kris had posted a thread here (
https://oozinggoo.ning.com/forum/topics/fantasia-saturn-lamp-my ) about this really cool Fantasia Saturn fiber optic lamp he just received. I knew nothing about the Fantasia lamp history but I did remember an amazing fiber optic lamp I had seen years ago on the web (which I thought was called the Sunburst).
So on Sunday 3/1 I posted in that thread and said I recalled a really cool lamp but I wasn't sure of the actual name, etc. Then I wanted to see if I could find any pics and info about it so I googled "Sunburst fiber optic". The first thing to show up was a Craigslist ad selling a Fantasia Sunburst lamp... for $50. You can imagine my drool?
I immediately emailed the seller and asked him if he'd be willing to ship it (as I'm not in the same state) and he agreed if I'd send a money order. He was one of the nicest, most honest guys ever: The next day he went to UPS and found out what it would cost to ship.. $25.20. He even scanned the UPS estimate somehow and emailed it to me.
And yes I felt horrible knowing that he could have gotten more than that on ebay... and I could've told him that and then gave up the lamp like a extremely decent person... but I didn't. :O(
The next day, 3/3, I sent him the money order. He received it on 3/6 and went the same day to ship the lamp! He even scanned each UPS receipt showing exactly what the box cost and the exact shipping.
I just got the lamp this Wed 3/11. It's beautiful, looks amazing when on, the colors are beautiful... It goes from white to blue to green to yellow (I think... it looks kinda orange-ish) to turquoise-ish to red to purple to orange. Just a big, fat, massive lamp and spray... very impressive.
A few problems are:
-The spray is dirty, which can easily be cleaned I'm sure. The problem is that it's already lost about 20 fibers and I'm afraid wetting the end where they're glued into the metal ring part will loosen them.
I'm thinking of getting some type of clear glass adhesive and putting some on the fiber ends to re-glue any loose ones.
-The motor or transformer ( ?) or fan (or all three) may have problems. When you first turn it on it sounds like extremely loud pop corn popping (or something like that). I sprayed some silicone on certain areas and that helped... after a few minutes that particular sound stops but it still remains very loud.
I'd love to have it looked at and a tune up maybe, but have no clue who or where I'd bring it to. An electrician? Lamp store? No clue.
Some of the parts look like they could use replacing, but I assume they can't be. I hope they never fail on me.
-The globe is a little bit bent off center. It's not really that noticeable but since I noticed it's been annoying me. I may try to bend it back, but don’t wanna make it worse.
I guess that's pretty much all I can think of right now. :O)