A work light is very useful, at least for me nowadays requirÃng more light than before. Machine work lights tend to be costly, but when finding a goose-necked LED-light at my local IKEA store, I got two since they very much would lend themselves to become useful work lights. One for the lathe and one for the mill. The standard item looks as below.
PeterE - A simple C3 work lightI dismantled the foot from the stem - or rather avoided to assemble them - and then made a small alu bracket from a 10 mm piece from the scrap box.
PeterE - A simple C3 work lightFitted the stem to the bracket ready for mounting on the lathe.
PeterE - A simple C3 work lightThen time to think, where should I attach the light to the lathe? I decided to put it on the splash back and at the far right end near the top. marked out for two holes.
PeterE - A simple C3 work light... and fitted the light with two large shallow-headed M4 screws to the splash-back.
PeterE - A simple C3 work lightThe light works very well and the goose-neck is long enough to reach basically to any desirable position for working.
The remaining parts of the foot was a plastic casing and a cast iron disc.
PeterE - A simple C3 work lightThe cast iron disc will come in handy as a back plate for a small ER-16 chuck to fit the C3 flange. Nice when all bits can be used.
An afternoons work with a nice result.
BR
/Peter
