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Lamp auger?
Hi,
I'd like to try making some simple lamps, probably using the hardware one can find at Home Depot or Lowes. What size auger should I get? The hardware package says it is 3/8, but it looks too small for that. Any suggestions? Tom |
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Margret Huntress wrote:
Hi, I'd like to try making some simple lamps, probably using the hardware one can find at Home Depot or Lowes. What size auger should I get? The hardware package says it is 3/8, but it looks too small for that. Any suggestions? Tom follow directions until proven wrong......... |
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"Norvin" wrote in message ... Margret Huntress wrote: Hi, I'd like to try making some simple lamps, probably using the hardware one can find at Home Depot or Lowes. What size auger should I get? The hardware package says it is 3/8, but it looks too small for that. Any suggestions? follow directions until proven wrong......... Might want to bore a 3/8 hole and discover that's what the fittings are threaded for. Means if you're going to take a tube threaded both ends as your basic design, you'll want the hole 7/16 or so to allow the threads free passage. |
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Lamp auger?
I mae a lamp by gluing stock together and leaving a square open the
entire length. On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:48:42 GMT, "Margret Huntress" wrote: Hi, I'd like to try making some simple lamps, probably using the hardware one can find at Home Depot or Lowes. What size auger should I get? The hardware package says it is 3/8, but it looks too small for that. Any suggestions? Tom |
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How will you secure the metal cord tube?
"Stonegrift" wrote in message ... I mae a lamp by gluing stock together and leaving a square open the entire length. On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:48:42 GMT, "Margret Huntress" wrote: Hi, I'd like to try making some simple lamps, probably using the hardware one can find at Home Depot or Lowes. What size auger should I get? The hardware package says it is 3/8, but it looks too small for that. Any suggestions? Tom |
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Well, on the lamp I built I used a hollow threaded rod. It allowed me
to attach the lamp assembly firmly to the rod then I screwed the rod into the opening of wood lamp body. If it ever comes loose I can always glue the rod into the lamp. the cord tube doesn't go all the way through the lamp part of it is plain wood. Since I didn't make the lamp hollow like a bowl or narrow necjk vase the entire tube is not needed to guide the cord through the lamp. All I bought for the lamp was the actual lamp ficture, the hollow threaded rod, and a doaner extention cord. I cut off the multi plug end and attached it to the lamp assembly after threading it through my turned body and the section of hollow rod I used. I connected everything up and carefully plugged in the lamp. It worked. On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 03:02:44 GMT, "Margret Huntress" wrote: How will you secure the metal cord tube? "Stonegrift" wrote in message .. . I mae a lamp by gluing stock together and leaving a square open the entire length. |
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I do it much differently. I get a light fixture bracket (like you hang a
fixture from a ceiling box...threaded in the middle with two long slits for screws). I cut off each end leaving only enough to accomodate two screws. On the lathe I cut a circle wide enough to accept the cut off bracket, and deep enough for the bracket and screws (maybe 3/8"). I make a washer from tempered masonite with a 2 1/2" hole saw. I spray this with gold paint to match the brass fittings. I get a lamp kit from Home Depot (about $8). Now using a few inches of threaded rod the whole assembly fits together nicely and securely. Of course the washer fits over the bracket hole. You only need a hole in the lamp big enough to accomodate the wire. "Margret Huntress" wrote in message news:_FDxf.24744$em5.15893@trnddc05... Hi, I'd like to try making some simple lamps, probably using the hardware one can find at Home Depot or Lowes. What size auger should I get? The hardware package says it is 3/8, but it looks too small for that. Any suggestions? Tom |
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"Margret Huntress" wrote: (clip) The hardware package says it is 3/8, but it looks too small for that. (clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Is this, possibly, confusion between the nominal pipe size and the actual OD? |
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I got my start in woodturning providing lamp bases for a custom lampshade
artist. The auger is used to drill the hole from top to bottom for the cord. The hollow threaded tube only has to go a couple inches into the wood and I used a 23/64" drill to widen the auger hole for that. That size allows the threads to get a little bite, use jam nuts so you can grab it with a wrench to thread it into the hole. I usually put a tiny bit of epoxy in the hole before threading in the pipe for extra security. Lamps are fun, every turner should have a few wooden lamps in their home. -mike paulson, fort collins, co I'd like to try making some simple lamps, probably using the hardware one can find at Home Depot or Lowes. What size auger should I get? The hardware package says it is 3/8, but it looks too small for that. Any suggestions? Tom |
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What I am hearing is that I don't need to have the whole threaded rod go the
legnth of the lamp, just the top. Is there any fire danger if I don't use the metal rod through out? Please excuse my ignorance. I've just been curious. If not, I'll just devise a coupler of some sort and run the wire down the bored-out hole. Thanks for your help. Let me know if there is any danger in doing this. Tom "Mike Paulson" wrote in message ... I got my start in woodturning providing lamp bases for a custom lampshade artist. The auger is used to drill the hole from top to bottom for the cord. The hollow threaded tube only has to go a couple inches into the wood and I used a 23/64" drill to widen the auger hole for that. That size allows the threads to get a little bite, use jam nuts so you can grab it with a wrench to thread it into the hole. I usually put a tiny bit of epoxy in the hole before threading in the pipe for extra security. Lamps are fun, every turner should have a few wooden lamps in their home. -mike paulson, fort collins, co I'd like to try making some simple lamps, probably using the hardware one can find at Home Depot or Lowes. What size auger should I get? The hardware package says it is 3/8, but it looks too small for that. Any suggestions? Tom |
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Lamp auger?
Margret Huntress wrote:
What I am hearing is that I don't need to have the whole threaded rod go the legnth of the lamp, just the top. Is there any fire danger if I don't use the metal rod through out? Please excuse my ignorance. I've just been curious. If not, I'll just devise a coupler of some sort and run the wire down the bored-out hole. Thanks for your help. Let me know if there is any danger in doing this. Tom There shouldn't be any fire hazzard by just using a short piece of threaded rod to attach the socket to the lamp. I don't understand this coupler you are planning on using. Is it to join two pieces of electrical wire in the body of the lamp? Probably not a good idea. You should use a solid piece of electrical cord from the light socket to the wall plug. If you mean a coupler to attach the rod to the socket, the socket should come with a threaded coupler as part of its base. You should also tie a lampmakers knot(Proper term?) in the cord in the base of the lamp just befor it goes through the wall of the lamp. This prevents the cord from being pulled out of the socket if anybody yanks on the cord for some reason. |
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Yeah, what he said. No fire danger. Definitely do the Underwriters knot.
I always hollowed the base a little bit so I had room to add a second knot inside the horizontal hole where the cord exited through the base. -mike |
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Mike Paulson wrote:
Yeah, what he said. No fire danger. Definitely do the Underwriters knot. I always hollowed the base a little bit so I had room to add a second knot inside the horizontal hole where the cord exited through the base. -mike Thanks Mike for the correct name of the knot. |
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