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Vintage (or not so vintage) machine lamps
Inspired by Camoz' WTB post for vintage machine lamps, I thought I'd share the following.....
PLEASE NOTE. THIS IS A MAINS POWERED 240 VOLT LAMP. I MAKE NO RECOMMENDATION AS TO THE SUITABILITY OF THE FOLLOWING FOR YOUR APPLICATION. ALL MAINS WIRING SHOULD ONLY BE DONE BY A LICENSED ELECTRICIAN. ALL CARE, NO RESPONSIBILITY ETC. ETC.
Last week I was walking through the hardware store that we love to hate, when I spotted this desk lamp (about $16). For scale, the reflector is about 120mm diameter, and the flexible gooseneck measures 265mm long, and it's mounted to the base by a simple nut and washer arrangement. The threaded spigot (15mm long) on the bottom of the flexible gooseneck is M10x1.0 (unusual size). Hardware store part number 4370830. It takes a 40W SES globe.
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So what about a retro bulb to suit....A 40W rangehood bulb (about $3) fits the bill nicely. Rangehood bulb's are designed to handle vibration, and this particular one gets the filament out into the center of the reflector, and has the old vacuum tube shape as well. It's plenty bright enough for a machine lamp, but I guess you could go for fluoro or LEDs if you're a hippy, or you get tired of burning your arm on the hot reflector, or the colour temperature doesn't agree with your eyes. 40W does get the reflector hot.
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I'm in the process of machining a small conduit adaptor (3/4"-16 conduit to M10x1.0) that will mount directly to an old industrial metalclad switch that I have. So for about $20, I have the makings of a machine lamp.
Hope this is of use to some of you.
Pics to follow.
Regards
John