Name: PIFCO Merrylites - 1970s Set
Uploaded: 2024-07-16T03:07:00+00:00
Duration: 11 min 13 s
Description: In this video, we have a look down the deep dive archive rabbit hole on the subject of, PIFCO Merrylites. This video took over 8 hours to edit and was only supposed to be a simple edit, it slowly spir

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In this video, we have a look down the deep dive archive rabbit hole on the subject of, PIFCO Merrylites.

This video took over 8 hours to edit and was only supposed to be a simple edit, it slowly spiralled!

Apologies for the jump-scare, I did it to ease the monotony of editing this behemoth of a video.

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Welcome to the Vintage Christmas Lights UK Channel.
(VCLUK)

We hope you enjoyed this video!

Our aim is to help people fix and maintain their classic sets of Christmas Lights that were sold in the UK, and restore them, we will endeavour to upload guides, hints and tips.

Our main videos content will consist of our collection of lights and other unique lights in operation, and taking deep dives into our extensive Christmas Light Archive.

If you have any interesting Christmas Light videos that we could add to are YouTube channel to archive for everyone, please leave a comment below with a link to the video, and it will be added.

If there are any sets of lights we have not featured yet that you would like to see, let us know in the comments and we will see what we can do

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A little 'light' history.

The early 90s were the beginning of the end for 'classic' style Christmas light sets, new manufacturing and safety laws saw the delicate thinner cables replaced with thick and bulky black ones for 240v sets of lights, making them look cumbersome and chunky.

NOMA still produce some 'classic style' sets of lights, identical to the late 80s lights, but unfortunately with the thick cable.

But even these are going away slowly but surely and replaced with characterless, shadeless sets of LED lights.

There are a lot of modern lights that we do like!

We do hope that one of the legacy firms like PIFCO or NOMA bring back the classic style lights, perhaps in low voltage LED form in sets of 20 and 40, and possibly 60-100 too with the old style shades, a mix and match option would be brilliant.

What do you think ?

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Track: Jingle Bells

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Jingle Bells by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.

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1st Track name: Is There Something Out There