Random Cool Tricks

Hey! No cooking in the apartment.

 

We've been playing that game for more than 40 years. Never gets old.

 

Im a pure Gent , ALWAYS
My partner knows , and friends need to Learn & don't understand . Just tucked her in !!!
I have a hrs work still
Sloth

 

I find raw materials to make stuff wherever I can. One of the latest challenges has been finding steel with enough spring to make arms for lamp shade holders. I found a good source in an unlikely place. The hardware store garden tool aisle. The steel in the tines of this $10 leaf rake are just the right springiness to do the job. The stuff bends fairly easily, welds nicely and if heated enough can be twisted and bent along its long axis when necessary to follow the original shape of existing shade holders. The Coleman Kero-Lite 160 shade holder was originally a little wider material, but I'm not making pieces that anybody could mistake for original, I just want it to hold up the shade.


I took three more tines off the other side to make a shade holder for this tiny Plume & Atwood 1873 Argand burner that had frustrated me since it has no surface to hang a shade on. The fix was to make a stainless steel collar for the fount and run the three spider arms straight up the burner and out 90 degrees to support the shade. This way they're never in the way of the control. The shade looks like a vintage Sinumbra lamp shade and has an odd 5 1/2" fitter. I gave $2 for it at a rainy flea market.

Ended up working great. Much easier on the eyes.

 

That's very nicely done. There's a shop truck around here that's painted
all flat black and looks like a garbage truck that ate a school bus.

 

I see an aladdin lamp , all i have here X6
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It's all fun and games til somebody gets blown up!

 

She's not being to gentle with that thing ,, I believe I'd have left it in the water till EOD showed up .

 

Nope its married now, so bye bye diet.Landwhale in the make.

 

This is a painting. Yes. A painting.

 

Altos Hub ?
2018 year now fiber ?
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