All the buildings around the copper smelter are going to need exterior
lights. This means I am need to come up with around 50 lighting
fixtures! A couple of weeks ago I did some digging online to see what
was available, and was stunned to see that I was going to have to shell
out around $1.00 a piece for them.
I put on my thinking cap and while I
was at WalMart last weekend. I purchased a package of 250 ball head
.05mm pins and a bag of 800 cupped 5mm sequins, with the thought
that they might be cobbled together to serve the purpose. Tonight, I
made the prototype run shown below:
The pins were bent using needle-nosed pliers and
the “electrical boxes” were cut from sheet styrene with a single 1/8”
hole punch and drilled with the pin vise. I just need to go easier on
the epoxy holding the sequin shades in place when I make a “production
run.” for which I will fabricate a fixture to obtain uniformity
throughout a run. With a total investment of $6.00, I have enough
supplies on hand to build 250 light fixtures. While the "rivet counters"
might complain that they are over sized, at less than two cents apiece
plus a little labor, they are close enough for this guy!
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