Part 29 – Lighting the darkness……………

Hiya,

Havent posted for a few days as i have been busy with other things and so have been fitting

tumbledown wharf round other things……..

Anyway to bring you all upto date.

First there was the problem of the lamp for the platform. I found an old kit in my local modelshop of a

lamp for a larger scale. It was cast in white metal and the kits was far to out of scale for what i wanted.

However the base of the lamp was perfect and as it was only 2 pounds i decided to convert it. First i started to cut the post in half with a razor saw.

this left me with just the base of the original kit, the rest going into the parts box.

I then drilled out the inside of the base with a small drill

then after poking about in the bit box i found a section of OO gauge lamppost which is made from brass

tube. this i cut to the length i required

then with a larger drill bit i drilled a 5 mm deep hole into the post i had already drilled to hold the tube.
I then soldered it to the base section and cleaned it all up with a file.

I then fitted a grain of wheat bulb and heat shrunk it to the top of the post.

For the moment i havent thought any more about the top altho i have quite a few ideas…… more to

come at a future point on that one.

Nikki

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