Cheap milling machine light

Asda sell 3inch long torches for £3. I tapped a 2BA thread into my Warco machine,screwed a spring clip on, and now have an excellent light. Brilliant! JHL

It would be good to see a picture James.

Cheers

Graham

I bought 4 led pads of fleabay for pence, stuck to underside of head they illuminate whole table very well

Machine Mart do a proper "Angle Poise" type lamp for £15 and a magnifier for £20.

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Machine Mart do a proper "Angle Poise" type lamp for £15 and a magnifier for £20

Yes I have one of those. It has come in for some heavy use over the time I've had it.

Just one criticism and that's the clamp. It comes out in your hand if you aren't too careful and with the head at full stretch the plastic come L shaped metal configuration tends to squirm its way off the bench. Upgrade that DIY wise and you have a winner.

Jesse

A friend living close by had junked a desktop lamp in her recycle bin. I asked if I could have it and she said sure.

I took it home thinking I'll attach it to the back of my cross work table but as it had been outside I took it apart to dry it out. The light turned out to be from a twelve volt halogen car bulb and the lamp had a 13amp plug attached!

(W)omen.

Edited By Jesse Hancock 1 on 02/03/2015 20:51:58

12v bulb on 240v - that should be bright enough for anyone!!!!!!!!!

Edited By Howard Winwood on 03/03/2015 08:46:03

I purchased a couple of those torches at a National Trust shop last summer (also £3) - I meant to make some mounting clips but I've not got around to it yet - they give very good illumination and I have one in my pocket most of the time. Very small and handy.

A week or so ago - I saw some mains-powered "clip-on" LED lights - quite dinky for just £3.99 in Lidls.

One of those is now clipped to my Cowells drill - it's got a flexible neck and gives a very good light. The clip end of the flexible bit is screwed & nutted on to the actual clip - so it would be easy to re-mount the lamp on anything with a suitable hole. However, I'm finding the 'clip' quite useful for positioning the light and is fairly strong - so I may just screw a flat metal strip under drills headstock to clip the light to. Cheap & simple.

Regards,

IanT