Hello welcome to Enots engineering I'm Alan.
This week on the boxford lathe. I've decided to do
something I've been thinking about doing for twenty years and that's alter the lamp
As you get older your eyesight's not as good as it was when you're young
and you need a bit more light to see what's going on it's finally got to me
so in today's video I'll be showing how I move the lamp why so let's have a look
it's 26 degrees in the workshop today looking at some some modifications to
the lathe one of them being a problem with the lamp. Ever since I've had
the lathe. The lamp is being fitted on this tin plate at the back the problem with
that is you lose one of your axes or movement in that this is sticking out
that way you can only go up and down you can't swivel the lamp round like
you'd normally be able to do if the lamp is on a flat surface. so what I'm
thinking of doing is putting some angle aluminium on here so that the lamp can
stand upright so I can pivot the lap round. the plates only held on by some screws
into the back of taken two out so I'll just het the last one out and then pull the
lamp down out of the way. I will pull the lamp out and it has a connector block at the
bottom so if I undo the two wires I think this is a remnant of when they
used to have the motor on the back of the lathe.
and it fed through the side the belt went through the side here but
On this one the motor it's in the base of the unit. Give this a spray some grease remover.
I've just undone done with four screws
Take that out the way. And theres nothing technically on that it's just a
steel cover sheets steel
It looks like most of the oil on the back here is off the headstock.
you can see if I can fix this lamp so that the base is facing upwards.
That will give me another axis so that turns on that
I've got a piece of aluminium angle but because this swivel mount needs to
clear the back of the plate I have to extend it out to this this is a piece of
the CNC beding and I had leftover so I basically use the same holes in the back
plate here to hold the aluminium angle pop riveted this piece to it and then
bolt it back on through the top and the wire goes in this in the slot at the
back down to the connection point
I've just cleaned up the back of the
machine. Now I'll just point out that what we've got down here. The connections to
the lamp just on a connector block this piece here this metal here it's just the
shield it's welded to the base it stops you're using sods it stops the sun's
going down the belt hole here and then this at the back is a micro switch which
cuts off the power when you open the door for the gear change
So before the lamp just stayed like that all I could do is move up and down and twist the top.
but now I've got the ability to move and over the chuck so I can get closer to
the the work when I need to and if I'm doing a bore I and see easier.
The original low volt unit which has a 12 volt AC transformer so it's important
if you use in the same transformer as the original that you have an LED bulb
that will work on AC this is a sort of light I get it's the yellowy light and
it's it's okay it's not it's not brilliant.
so what I've done I've had a look on the internet and I found this bulb in the
lamp is a Edison screw 27. I found this adapter which is the same as the bulb but
with a I think it's a two pin holder in and this LED lamp which fits
into that the only problem I've got is if you move it a lot the bulb falls out
so I thought I might be able to do is put some double sided sticky tape on there
just to hold it there but let me show you difference in the light.
so that's the 12 volt LED bulb and the light is brighter and it's a white light
rather than the yellow light and it will use less power
Thanks for watching I hope it's been useful and we'll see you next time on a
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