14-01-2021

Cliff is beginning to see the light (3 images)

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One of my Lockdown projects! I've made a wooden a base for a lamp that my son made for me. As you can see I've rounded of the edges of a nice piece of oak (I used the Shed's bench router between lockdowns!!). Then used a Forstner bit to make the hole for the cylinder head to sit in. It's a cylinder head from an old BSA Bantam (probably a 175cc two stroke). My son had not secured the head securely so I sourced a length of 5/16 thread bar. The threads were not metric of course! The body through which the lamp glows is a Lakeland or IKEA kitchen tool caddy (with bottom cut off). The plastic tube covering the bulb is an offcut flu liner for a new boiler we had to have before Christmas. I've used that to create more of a diffused the light.

The lamp makes a nice glow in the corner of my den, could be a talking point if only we had visitors!

Author: Cliff Jones