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Mission to light the letters!

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What would it take for us to be able to light the KYLE FIELD letters for the t.u. Nationally televised night game? Could we take a collection? Maybe the students could sell shirts that simply have the letters KYLE FIELD on it and on the back "Come and Take It."

Any thoughts?
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It's been stated before this isn't going to happen. My thinking is the wiring is probably so ate up that it's a fire hazard and the bird nestings that have been there for years would be the perfect starter.

Renovate the Press Box and you might get it. That'll only take a few million, so collect away!
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I don't buy the bird answer... If you drive by the Rec at night you see that "STUDENT RECREATION CENTER" is backlit, so why not Kyle Field?
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The rec was built in the Millennium?
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I think Bryne answered this once, something about a huge initial cost to update and then the maintaining would also be a lot.
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How much would it cost to create exact replicas of the current letters, have the lighting encased inside the letters so the birds can't nest, haul them up there and hook them up to the existing mounts then plug the wire into the existing outlet or splice it the exisiting wiring?

Just wondering?
Skull Session
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BTW, then you can sell the old letters to some rich Ag who might want them on his ranch. Kind of like the cadillacs of Amarillo or whereever the hell that is.
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I'd like to buy a vowel
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This issue bewilders me. Birds?!?!?
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One word: glowsticks
duffelpud
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option 2: Q-Beams
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quote:
It's been stated before this isn't going to happen


Byrne said it could be done, but it was going to be very expensive. So unless someone writes a big check, we won't see them lit up for a long time.


I'd just like the wall, underneath the letters, to be power-washed. It looks like the letters are melting.
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SAVE THE CLOCK TOWER!!!
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Have the picture of the letters lit, with "Light Em Up" on a shirt and have a fundraiser?
Kramer
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I think the real issue is the "existing" wiring. Again, we struggle to keep that Box within Code.
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It would cost approximately $50k - $65k to do it right - remove, repaint, new neon & ballasts and reinstall - by fully insured professionals with the proper equipment.

[This message has been edited by duffelpud (edited 9/30/2009 9:57a).]
Visor Guy
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Sounds like 5000-10000 $10 tshirts could do it. We have to have an Ag that owns a sign business that can work on a deal with the University as part of a donation.

[This message has been edited by Aggie Delta Sig 99 (edited 9/30/2009 10:05a).]
Longstreet
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This topic comes up every football season, it seems. I understand the money issue. It would cost a lot for what is basically a cosmetic issue. Still, I wish it could be done.

Several years ago (more than I care to remember), my wife and I lived in College Station, in an apartment a mile or two from campus. We had moved there with the intention of settling in for a year or two, and then enrolling at Texas A&M. Things happened, life got in the way (as it so often does), and I never did get to school.

While living there, we would go to San Antonio every couple of months to see her folks. We would drive home Sunday evening, always arriving in CS after dark. I remember coming in from Caldwell, past Easterwood, and seeing those letters. They glowed like a beacon in the night, not just showing the way home but lighting the way to a dream. I can see that beacon in my mind's eye even now, and I remember how sad I felt when I heard that the lights had been turned off.

I realize there are many things that need to be done, more important things. But 50K's not really that much. Sure wish it could be done.

btw, duffelpud, love yer handle. The duffels are some of my kids favorite characters from that book.

Delta, I would buy one or two of those shirts.

[This message has been edited by Longstreet (edited 9/30/2009 10:10a).]
Kramer
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I guarantee it would cost more than 65K.

I'm BB's sock, so don't question me.
Visor Guy
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Hell, there's almost 7K peopole on Texags right now, $10 bucks each and we have it done!

[This message has been edited by Aggie Delta Sig 99 (edited 9/30/2009 10:10a).]
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fail
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It will indeed cost money, but is worth every penny IMHO. I know it's just lighted letters...but as one of the posters before stated, things like this can take on a bigger meaning.

Anyone work for a sign company that can price it out? We could then start hitting up the old Ag's

sawemoffshort07
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I think I may even have $20 to spare.
FJB
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Can't they just use LEDs?
ArmyDoc
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There was a good discussion on this last year. I think the best ideas were to use LEDs to increase the intensity and keep the cost of operation down, have some of the people from the engineering school design them, and installing cat walks for real cats to help keep down the bird population. I don't remember who had the idea of cats on the cat walks, but the thread was one of the funnier of last year (that I recall).
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I remember the thread, it had a picture of it lit up and turned into one of the longer threads and someone emailed $Bill about what it would take to get it lit up.
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Screw the darned letters, just fix the 101 other problems that rapidly aging Kyle has!
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blumby
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quote:
The rec was built in the Millennium?
I understand but what I meant was if birds nesting next to lights is an issue, how did they get by it on the Rec? Whatever they did there can be applied to Kyle. I'm sure it's a money issue like others are saying. Here's hoping some BMAs miss it and make a donation to light 'em up again
p_bubel
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It's not just the nesting problem blumby, the wiring is shot and nothing within the lights themselves has been maintained in a couple of decades. Everything associated with lighting those letter will have to be replaced.

[This message has been edited by p_bubel (edited 9/30/2009 10:53a).]
skins74
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I remember them bragging that they were the worlds biggest backlit letters when they were put up. I guess now they are the worlds biggest non working back lit letters!
Longstreet
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I'm BB's sock, so don't question me.

BB has a sock? AWESOME!! (btw thanks for 105.3)

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I remember the thread, it had a picture of it lit up and turned into one of the longer threads...

Yeah, I was thinking of thread as I read this one. I had that pic as my wallpaper, but that laptop died, and I haven't been able to find the picture since.

Any one have any idea where I could find it?
HOLDEN, M. D.
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ttt
sawemoffshort07
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Get a premium member to do a search for the old thread.
blumby
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Here's the thread, but the image link is broken.
http://www.texags.com/main/forum.reply.asp?forum_id=5&topic_id=1154057
If I have time, I'll try to find it though because it was an awesome picture.
 
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