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Another fabulous lamp. This one doesn't work, but it's so pretty with all the climbing vines. It's on the wall of the school we're attending in Guanajuato, GTO, Mexico.
Westminster stirred up some controversy recently when they announced a plan to replace all the historic gas lamps they own with electric lamps. In the face of criticism they have backed down regarding some of them - but by no means all.
This one is outside St James's Palace. As far as I know it's owned by the Crown and not the council and thus is not threatened.
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Every time I hold a piece of plastic household waste in my hands, I first check the plastics code on the base and then try to think up ways to use it, or repurpose it into something else. There are so many ways to repurpose plastic 2-litre bottles and this floor lamp is just one example out of many projects that I have done and just one more way to reduce household waste.
1. Remove the top section of the bottle with a sharp craft knife and then use a pair of scissors to trim at 5mm below the decorative pattern on the bottle. If your bottle doesn’t have a decorative pattern - you’re using the wrong brand of bottle!
2. Use a Dremel Multitool and cutting disk to remove the top neck of the bottle. Be careful when doing this as you need to hold the bottle in your hand as you cut. You could also use a hacksaw to cut off the top of the bottle neck if you don't havea Dremel Multitool.
3. To make one section you need two top sections. I have found it easier to warm up the bottom of a section in hot - not boiling - water to soften the plastic and make it easier to join two sections together. I’m not going to lie and say that fitting the two bottle sections together is easy, but it does get easier the more you do. The trick is getting one section to fit inside the other and the blerry thing keeps popping out. Persevere and you will come right.
4. When you have collected enough sections to make a standing or table lamp, slip them onto a piece of PVC pipe. You can use nail polish remover (acetone) to remove the barcode. Take them outdoors to spray with frosted glass. You don’t necessarily have to spray with frosted glass, you can also leave them clear. But I find the frosted glass hides any defects and it also matches the base I have found.
5. So that all the sections fit together nicely I used a cardboard tube cut to length and then wrapped this with aluminium self-adhesive tape.
There’s no exact measurement for this, as it depends on how you cut off the tops, but try one size and then adjust as required until you get a nice fit.
Once you peel off the backing it feels exactly like tin foil but with a self-adhesive
backing.
6. To wire up the lamp you need to thread the electrical cord through the pipe. Strip the end of each wire no more than 5mm from the end and then twist the wires together so that there are no loose filaments.
7. Thread the base of the lamp holder onto the top of the pipe and secure the wires
to the lampholder connection. Pull on the wires to ensure they are secure and will not come loose and then screw the lampholder together.
8. Use 5-minute epoxy glue to attach the lampholder to the top of the pipe and leave
this to dry for longer than 5 minutes! I don’t know why but sometimes it takes
longer to dry than it should - perhaps temperature affects it.
Just for security and peace of mind, I also wrapped a thin strip of white duct tape around the top as well.
9. To make the lamp stand I bought a piece of 20mm PVC electrical pipe from Builders Warehouse and use a glass light cover that was a leftover from a ceiling fan that was broken and removed. To steady the base I cut circular rounds of 16mm PG Bison SupaWood that were glued together and drilled with a 20mm spade bit, so that the pipe would fit into this.
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In addition to the candles, flashlights and a battery lantern, we also lit one oil lamp to light up the house.
Week 42 is about (Life, the Universe,) Everything. It is about everything that captures me, however it happens. It is a bit of a freeform week, therefore, which fits with the upcoming week’s planned activities. These light bulbs inspired me for this theme, in a way. Not so much the “I have an idea!” way, but in the “it all started with a bunch of light and energy” way.
Robot lamp
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift to the Nam June Paik Archive from the Nam June Paik Estate
This is actually a the top view of a corner lamp. Luckily I was tall enough to get a peak from above. From there it looked mysterious.....like the inside of a hypothetical warp drive in space and the balls of light are space crafts carrying people from one corner of the universe to the other. That's when I took the shot.