I have 90+ of the 455 bulbs made years ago by a company called Micro Lamps Inc. As far as I am concerned these are not as good as the old GE or Westinghouse bulbs but they are 10 times better than the Made in China stuff most people are selling today.

These were made it Taiwan (likely in the 1970's or 1980's) and I have been using them for years and have always had pretty good luck with them.

I don't have a need for these so if you (or anyone else) is interested I would take $80 (plus shipping) for the lot of them.

Terry, I am sure that is great news for some people but sadly the new 455 bulbs just are not the same as the vintage 455 bulbs. As long as people "adjust" their expectations all is good but the "Made in China" 455's just don't last or work as well as earlier bulbs from my experience with them.

Terry,

Doing what you guys do is great and I am not trying to take anything away from that but sadly new production today just isn't the same as things were years ago. Even the "good old used bulbs" are not going to last forever so it is super important for someone to step up and do something to ensure a supply of something that will work and your price on these is great but my point is they just are not the same as the good old bulbs from years ago.

What frustrates me is you can't buy a decent new bulb today at any price. A couple years ago I got fed up with the 4' fluorescent lights in our shop area so I decided to change over to LED shop lights. Less than a year later every new LED shop light I put up was dead. Fast forward a few months and I decided to just replace the old 4' Fluorescent lights in our basement gameroom with all new fluorescent bulbs instead of changing over to LED's (because of my bad experience with the LED's) and out of two cases of bulbs I had two bad brand new bulbs & 4 other bulbs failed within a month. So after paying nearly $100 for twenty new fluorescent bulbs two months ago I have to now replace 1/3rd of them. I don't mind paying for new products but it just gets old when everything you buy these days it total junk!

Anyway THANKS for stepping up and getting these made. They should sell well for you because they are really getting hard to source! But regardless of what anyone does these will never be as good as they made years ago - just like everything else these days and that is kind of sad.

Terry,

With your reasonable price point I am sure these will be a big hit. THANKS AGAIN for "stepping up" and putting in the work to get reasonably priced 455's back on the market. Without guys like you stuff would just keep getting more expensive and harder & harder to source.