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Diy valve cover desk lamp7/27/2023 ![]() CFL lamps are the most commonly used table lamps but the problem with them is that they take too much power and they need to be plugged to an external power supply. People use them for reading and studying. Thanks for the Ible! I had a lot of fun on this (although I spent a lot more than I was intending to.Desktop lamps are very useful and present in every person's house. Inevitably you will have pieces that you want in a certain position but the way that the threads were made are either too loose or won't make another full rotation. So I had to take everything apart piece by piece. I made the mistake of putting everything together and tightening with wrenches just to find out that my wires were not too happy snaking through the whole assembly. They ended up with a little more wiggle room than I had hoped so I wrapped some tape around the base of the valve. I used gorilla glue to hold them in place inside the tee. These rotary switches glue perfectly to Home Depots valve handles and then are a decent fit into a 1/2" tee connector. the problem i saw there is that if you overtighten youre sure to smash the switch to pieces. You could also use a momentary switch inside of a working on/off gate valve. I thought long and hard on this problem and was so overjoyed when I found these. Its a rotary switch thats about 1/2" in diameter and is not much more than just a knob. 3) search around and find switches like the one I've posted here. I'm not sure the insulators are necessary for heat, as the pipe is pretty thick, but I was worried about conductivity since the metal shell of the socket is actually the negative power for the lightbulb. My local hardware store had these as well as really thin cardboard insulators that made the whole thing a perfect fit. You need one that is basically no bigger than the metal threaded part (also known as the shell). You might have to look around at different stores for the socket though. 2) If you're using 1/2" pipe, you can get a 1/2" to 1" reducer piece that fits a regular sized light socket well. After assembling everything I went to a decent local hardware store the other day and discovered that their black iron was about half the cost of HD. I figured since they're a large chain that their black iron pipe would be cheapest. I made a couple of these this weekend for my girlfriend and have a few tips if anyone is going to try this ible: 1) don't go to Home Depot. Let me know if you have any other issues! It's not perfect but it works pretty well. What I ended up doing is wrapping the white part of the switch with red ductape until it fit snuggly inside of the pipe opening. I then sprayed the white part with red spray paint to match.Īnother tricky part (after getting them glued) is to keep them in the pipe without falling out but still having enough wiggle room to turn. It has amazing holding power even on slick parts (case in point: I got some on my stainless steel metal sink and it is still there, a year and a half later, bonded straight to the slick metal). ![]() ![]() I put pieces of my car back together with this stuff though. I think no one knows about it because it's been around forever and goes under the radar. But J & B weld is seriously underrated and amazing. I've tried epoxy glues, craft glues, gorilla glue etc. ![]() I think the info you're looking for is this: use J & B weld. You probably already got all that, I just wanted to clarify. The white part is the on/off switch (rotates on then off). ![]() It's not actually a "valve" just the knob. If you look at the first photo I attached, you can see that the faucet is literally just the handle. ![]()
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