Kerry Burton
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While working on another small project today, I was digging around under my workbench looking for several packages of dowels that I knew "had to be there". (They weren't. )
What I did find was the worklight from my Dewalt scrollsaw. I took it off a couple years ago because it was too fiddly and too hot, it didn't put out much light, and it generally got in the way.
Meanwhile, at my lathe I've been making do with a light that I clip to my turning tool rack:
So I took the plunge and drilled a pair of holes in my as-yet-unmolested-in-16-years lathe...
... and used some nylon locknuts that I inherited from a now-deceased woodworker friend to mount the scrollsaw light to the frame.
Voila! Ready to use! Well, almost.
I still have the problem of a too-hot bulb that doesn't put out much light. (And what it does put out is yellow-orange. Yuck!)
I almost pulled the trigger on some daylight LEDs that would fit the small E17 socket, but then realized that this is the only such lamp I have, and I would never use all 4 bulbs.
So for now I have ordered an adapter instead, which should let me use a full-size bulb in the lathe-mounted lamp.
You're worried about me staring at a bare, unshrouded bulb, right? Well, I figure I can turn my own lampshade ... after the adapter shows up in another 3-to-8 weeks. Sigh...
What I did find was the worklight from my Dewalt scrollsaw. I took it off a couple years ago because it was too fiddly and too hot, it didn't put out much light, and it generally got in the way.
Meanwhile, at my lathe I've been making do with a light that I clip to my turning tool rack:
So I took the plunge and drilled a pair of holes in my as-yet-unmolested-in-16-years lathe...
... and used some nylon locknuts that I inherited from a now-deceased woodworker friend to mount the scrollsaw light to the frame.
Voila! Ready to use! Well, almost.
I still have the problem of a too-hot bulb that doesn't put out much light. (And what it does put out is yellow-orange. Yuck!)
I almost pulled the trigger on some daylight LEDs that would fit the small E17 socket, but then realized that this is the only such lamp I have, and I would never use all 4 bulbs.
So for now I have ordered an adapter instead, which should let me use a full-size bulb in the lathe-mounted lamp.
You're worried about me staring at a bare, unshrouded bulb, right? Well, I figure I can turn my own lampshade ... after the adapter shows up in another 3-to-8 weeks. Sigh...
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