projector bulbs

[glondor]

I have a scrap dealer friend who has several hundred if not a thousand projector bulbs and he asked me to find out if there was any pm values in them. Bulbs like this. Sylvania czx dab or spectro car 120 volt and General Electric for 8 and 16 mm projectors.. Any info would be helpful. Thanks.

 

[Goldfinger4]

Due to wikipedia - no. Only tungsten.

 

[qst42know]

You may want to test some of the exterior reflective coating.

 

[silversaddle1]

Are they all burned out?

 

[glondor]

The bulbs are all new in their original packaging. He gave me three as a sample to look at, I do not see anything obvious but I am not sure what I am looking at any way. I think it would be better to wholesale the lot myself unless there is a lot of rhodium or something like it in them. I don't really want to break the ones I have but I will if their is any advantage to gathering info on them. Thanks guys.

 

[adam_mizer]

Some projector bulbs have resale value into the $100's.
At the price of these bulbs you could imagine there would be some pm's in there.
Try to research part numbers and average market pricing of that part.

 

[rbramsey]

I could use a few for Panasonic ET-LAB50. They have a note on the box that they contain mercury.

Richard

 

[glondor]

I will see if there are any panasonic bulbs next time I am there.