Project neon signs awaiting repairs in the neon attic...
Miller High Life© animated neon sign.
Another of these very unique neon beer signs with 3 display modes. All lit, border only and center only. This neon sign as you can see needs a 'High Life' tube made or replaced with a good used one. I already replaced the border tube. Yes, that was broken too when I bought it. This old neon sign uses a motor to open and close contact switches to make the blinking happen. It has a dual-output transformer with one side providing 5KV and the other 3KV. There are only 3 wires from the transformer, so the 2 high voltage circuits share a common ground wire.
Camel Cigarettes© neon sign
Looking back at these old Camel advertising neon signs decades later, one wonders what the advertising department people were thinking. As you see, the Camel top on the top is broken on the M. It appears that is the common problem for many of these signs.
Camel Lights© neon sign
Another Camel sign with a broken M. Someday I'll stumble on some replacement tubes for these Camel cigarette neon signs. The signs are very similar, but the electrodes attach differently on the top Camel tube. Therefore each Camel tube is different and NOT interchange-able.
Genny Beer neon sign
This Genny neon sign broke exactly opposite of the one I fixed that is on the distillery page. The border oval broke, and that tube includes the beer copy for under the Genny word. It was an argon tube, and the coloring powder scattered inside, so it would need a whole new tube made.
Lite Beer neon sign with switchable open
This Lite beer neon sign features a switchable 'open' tube. To do that, the switch is 3-way. The switch settings are off, 'Lite' lit and finally 'Lite' and 'open' lit. The border oval broke.