A middle-aged man shares the experience of creating a comfortable reading lamp from remedies. We publish his first-person story.
"Recently kicked the Falloon - Vision, Naturally, does not become better. Under the old sconce, at the cottage began to distinguish the beaks in their favorite magazines. I measured the illumination of the sofa under the sconce - 16-20 LC. This time is ten less than the norm! Immediately it became clear why the letters are badly visible. Conclusion One: you need to make a new brain.
After experiments with the preparation of coconut sauce, several shells remained at the cottage. Cut the coconut with the help of a powerful engraving, I learned so that it immediately becomes clear from what to do the lamp. Of course, from coconuts! The perfect material: the hardest of any tree, with a certain skill, it is easy to handle. How to build a lamp using only coconuts shell, I could not come up. But in my jagshnik, the wonderful hundreds of the cushion were dried, which I have been wrinkled by testing the battery Saint Stihl. Of these, it was time to do something, and then the wife had already asked five times, why do I need them.
The sketch of the lamp drew in the evening, figured the sizes and in the morning began to cut on Saturday.
Almost all the components I had: when last year I did another sconce, I bought everything in two and even in three copies.
After the dissolution of the board, the board was treated with a grinder: first aligned with a coarse disc, then passioned with a less large skurt with grain P60.
Drawing, as usual, to do was lazy. Placed the details immediately on the board.
Details drank a manual jigsaw. The thickness of the board is about 25 mm, the jigscription remarkably copes with such material.
From one board it turned out two details.
Details are ground with a grinder, the r60 skin (old) - it turned out very smoothly. Power button on the coconut hemisphere.
In the shelf drills a non-separation hole of a large diameter (35 mm) to a depth of 12-15 mm.
Now the drill is 8 or 10 mm make a hole under the wire.
The groove is done behind, which will be laid wire. Groove "Ugroza" ladder. True, until I was adherent to the new engraver, so it turned out curved. When the scraps turn out to be on the wall, the groove will not be visible.
Will hold on two furniture suspensions, they are embedded and fixed with screws.
The lamp is assembled and covered with transparent oil "Borm".
The ends made darkened: with teak oil, the color of the "rosewood".
First, it was planned to glue the button in the coconut case to the base, but then changed my mind. If you want to remove - you will not take again. The button secured two screws.
The flaf will hang on rubber harness. This mount allows you to change the angle of inclination.
Install the nest and insert the light bulb. You can hang the lamp on the wall.
Making an electrician
The network wire took from the computer (such wires at work the whole box lies).
Sut the connector, we clean the wires.
We solder one wire to the power button, are insulated with a heat shrink connection.
Stretch the wire to the cartridge.
We solder the cartridge, insulate the connection to the heat shrink.
Insert the light bulb, check the work. The button turns on and off the light bulb. You can collect the lamp on.
Coconut treatment
Coconet is well cut in a circular saw inserted into a potter of powerful engraving. If the hands are not shaking, the cut is smooth.
Then with the help of a metal brush "shave" coconut. The resulting texture looks pretty.
In the future, the ceiling we make holes for the wire and fastening.
To emphasize the texture of the coconut, cover the surface with transparent teak oil "Borma". The oil is applied to an ordinary shopping sponge. There is practically no smell, at a temperature of more than 20 ° C, the oil dries quickly.
Result
Solemn waters were held. He began to measure illumination - the luxmeter showed only 133 LCs. And the illumination recommended by SNOP should be at least 200 LCs.
Replaced a three-grab light bulb on a six-time - illumination increased to 188 LCs.
The output suggests one: you need to make a lamp with two plaflubles.
Coconut nuts to find now on sale is not a problem. In "Magni", they cost rubles for 40 per piece, in the "pyatrochka" - 65, in "Carousel" - about 50. Not always fresh, but even if the coconut is slightly zakis, it can be used for products. Interestingly, the shape of coconuts bought in different stores was very different: some were elongated, others have resembled a ball. Probably different varieties. "
This article was published in the journal "Master Master" No. 5, 2018. You can subscribe to the magazine here.