Just to continue the hurricane lamp theme.
While browsing in a craft shop with my wife many years ago, I noticed some tear drop shaped beads that looked just the right size for the glass chimney of a hurricane lamp.
So I made a whole bunch of them – one with the elec leads coming in from the base, for a lamp standing on a table, and one where the leads are be at the top for a hanging lamp.. Here’s the process.
I ground the tops and bottom off the beads and drilled a hole in the base to take a LED.
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Then I superglued some round tube on the top and bottom. For the top lead version, I bent the LED leads out and up.
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For the table type, the leads come out the bottom and 2 pieces of wire form the ‘handles’.
Here’s the final result with a warm white LED running at 2mA.
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I plan to put one of them in the cab of the Heisler, ‘soon’. Since the cab lifts off I have to figure out a plug system for the connections.