Serious Readers, serious prices

A very worthy post, Howard … but I am a little confused by the ‘price comparison’

The ‘bulb’ mentioned in the opening post is an LED, which presumably post-dates the lamp on which you have been working.

MichaelG.

Howard Lewis:

"So shines a good deed in a naughty world"!

I mentioned above the imposingly heavy steel base to my failed lamp (which, incidentally, wobbled on its four rubber feet) and have recently turned this into a set of ancillary jaws for a woodturning chuck:

A wooden pot made with its help is on the lathe bed.

You can charge anything you like for something as long as you can find others thick enough to pay the price !

Always has been, always will be !

As the mad said "There,s one born every minute "

To a remarkably large percentage of the population, extortionate prices appear to confer some sort of superiority to the product.

Isn't that the Marks and Spencer approach to marketing?

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Very smart

MichaelG.

The mind is beginning to boggle : **LINK**

https://www.seriousreaders.com/products/high-definition-light-engine-2021

MichaelG.

Ever looked at Myford prices anytime in the last twenty years?

The lamp that I replaced was also a G9 LED.

The price comparison was to show that although the "Genuine article" might be ridiculously overpriced, on the basis "What the seller thinks the buyer, knowing no better, will pay" to illustrate that replacements are easily available and much cheaper.

The idea was to help anyone else, like ega, who needed a replacement and did not want to have to take a mortgage for it!

Howard

An aside from the thread.

The thin column of our friend's standard lamp version, wobbled on the heavy base. Despite having tightened the 17 mm (A/F ) nut under the base, the wobble returned.

To stabilise it, I made up an Aluminium (Lacking any brass of sufficiently large diameter), sleeve, drilled and tapped M5 in four places before splitting it. The split sleeve was then clamped around the column to bear against the thin "gold" coloured steel cover over the base, after the 17 mm nut had been slackened sightly.

Since then, thankfully, the wobble has been absent.

Howard

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My sincere apologies, Howard … I evidently misinterpreted what you wrote.

MichaelG.

Follow this video and you might be able to fix it.

Michael, No apology needed.

As we all know absolute precision is difficult to achieve

In this case, we are trying to prevent folk being charged needlessly high prices.

"Knowledge is power"., financial in this case.

Howard

On another thread Michael G posted about an interesting LED which might be a good upgrade, or even the basis of a self-build better equivalent.