- For today's video I thought I'd have a go
at a bit of up-cycling.
Now I'm quite into my bike art,
there's a lot of stuff behind me on the wall,
there's Jeff Wall prints,
there's an old disc drive clock up there.
As you can see there's just general stuff hanging around,
there's one of those metal workshop signs from Pack there.
That sort of stuff,
but today I actually fancied making something.
We're going to turn an old bike frame into a lamp
to hang off the wall of a new GMBM set.
Now as you've probably worked out,
I've got quite a lot of stuff hanging around
from years of working around bikes,
I've got all sorts of stuff here,
I've got a panic room as well,
and of course I've got a loft like everyone else.
Now, something I managed to find,
I'd actually totally forgotten about
is this old retro-looking frame.
So this is an old diamond back frame.
Well this is a replica of what would have been
the Apex frame from about 1993,
so this is a bit more modern.
But it's actually damaged,
it's got a squashed rear end on it,
so it can't actually be used,
'cause if I tried to bend that,
you can see where it's creased,
and there's a chance that it'd probably snap,
so it's not actually that useful,
but I couldn't bring myself to get rid of it
'cause it's quite nice-looking, really.
So what I'm actually going to do today
is essentially cut the rear end off the bike,
hang it off the wall and run a lighting system through
so you got a light bulb hanging out the bottom here,
a quite fancy one of those Edison-style bulbs,
just so it looks cool.
Doesn't have to actually give off any light.
And run the cable through the top tube here
and exit through the top.
Now obviously, to do something like this
you need to consider a few things,
what sort of light fitting you're going to get
and fit in the bike, how you're going to wire it
into the mains, in this case,
I've got a few options, here,
of complete light fittings with plugs
and the reason for that is, in our new set,
that this is going to be going on the wall,
hopefully, if I get it right, I actually,
we've got, like, a lighting gantry running
around the top with plug points, so,
I'm actually going to have this quite high up on the wall
and have the plug basically just going straight up
so you can plug in so I don't need
to have this wired in, it also means I don't have
to get around that sort of stuff
and I can try out today, hopefully,
to make sure it works.
Now, when doing this sort of thing,
there's a few things you need to consider,
as well as things you need to purchase
in order to make it happen, is how you're actually
going to mount the thing to the wall.
Now, I got this inspiration because a friend
of mines got a bar called Juno
and we actually filmed the GMBN Christmas special at his bar
and he's got a few frames hanging off the wall
that I actually helped him source
that had also been crash damaged and whatever
and they were carbon frames and he actually
cut the seat tube all the way down
and basically used the bottle cage bolts
to, more or less, bolt the frames to the wall.
Now, that looks really clean,
it looks like they're poking out of the wall
but I want to do something a little bit different with this
because, a, its an alloy frame,
so its a little bit harder to get an exact cut
with the sort of tooling that I've got.
I've got my angle grinder, so, its not
going to be that precise, its going to be
a bit more bodged, so, the idea I had
was to actually cut the chain stays
and the seat stays off and we're going to file this down,
there's also a cable mount here,
I'm going to have to get rid of that as well.
And I actually want to mount it to the wall
using something like these, sort of, hook bolts.
So, I basically want to drill these through the frame
and have these sit on, like, a gate hinge.
So, the whole frame can pivot side to side.
So, essentially, whatever we're doing on the set,
we can move the frame in and out of shot as we want,
so, hopefully that's going to work
but this is a bit of trial and error
and, well, we'll get to it really
and see what's what.
Okay, so, first up then is going to be
to get the back end of this bike off.
I'm using my work stand to do this
'cause I can hold it really securely
so nothing is going to move around, so,
I think that's going to be pretty solid.
Now, I'm obviously going to have to use the angle grinder,
I'm limited on tooling but angle grinders
are the key for these sort of jobs for me.
Now, something that's quite important to say is
I'm not going to be using the guard on my one,
the guard is there for good reason,
to protect your hands basically from the spinning blade,
it spins insanely fast and its really dangerous
but, in this case, its actually going to
get in the way of where I want to cut
so I'm not going to be using that.
I will be using some eye protection,
I'm going to be wearing some gloves as well
and a good dose of common sense
but if you're going to attempt this at home,
make sure you use the guard on yours,
really you should do and if you're unsure
about it, get a friend to do it for you
or someone that is comfortable using power tools.
They're no laughing matter, you know,
they're pretty serious bits of kit
and they can cause injury, so,
just use your common sense and don't shoot me down
too much for this because I'm being realistic about it.
Okay, so.
(angle grinder whirring)
That's good, now, swap here around to the other side.
(angle grinder whirring)
Okay, so, just a little bit of mess to sort out,
so, that's the back end off, that's the bad bit done.
Now, I just need to clean it up a bit,
I am now going to be putting the guard back on
because I can get better access to it,
you can actually use the edge of a grinder blade
to do a little bit of filing,
just to take some of that material off, so.
(file grinding)
Its a bit of an unsightly hole on the back of the frame,
however, not all is lost because you're
not going to see that as that's going to be against the wall,
there's just going to be, like, a hinge here, anyway.
Now, worst case, I can always go back to method one,
which is to cut the seat tube all the way down
and mount flush on the wall, so,
I want to try this to make sure there's a chance of it working
because I think it could look quite cool.
Now, you got inserts in the head tube, here,
now I need to figure out if I'm going to leave these in
or if we're going to have to smash them out
and make the most of it.
But lets have a look, so, first things first
is to decide which one of the two light fittings
I'm going to use, now, you can just get
any generic light fittings, to do something like this.
Now, as I probably mentioned earlier,
this is going to be plugged straight into,
like, the cable gantry, above the set,
so I thought it'd be easier just to get a complete cable set
basically that's already got a plug socket,
a plug, even, on the end of it.
Now, we just need to figure out
which one is going to be the best one
to mount inside the head tube, here.
As you can see, its not far off, size wise,
I'm suspecting that if I can somehow get that insert out,
I reckon it will fit flush, straight in,
I might need to hold it in place with something similar.
So, going to offer both of these up 'cause
I'm not sure which one is going to be which.
It does mean I have to take the plugs off,
in the short term, okay.
I like this stuff 'cause you never really know
exactly what's going to happen until you've done one.
Okay, so, its clearly too big, as it is
but that hitchy will house it, I reckon.
I'm going to try the other one,
its a little bit better actually.
That's not bad, that could even sit in like that
but I don't really want all of this poking out, if possible.
Okay, I'm going to see if I can get that insert out the frame.
(hammer banging)
I'll leave the top one in, top one looks okay.
Will you look at that, that will even go in
with a bit of an interference fit, I reckon.
Also known as friction fit, yeah,
little bit of movement on the inside of there
but I'm still going to see if the other one will,
I think the other ones too big,
annoyingly, 'cause the other one does look nicer.
Oh my God, that's even better.
We're going with this one, okay,
so I reckon I could--
That's a plate, basically, to hold our lampshade on
but I could add that plate directly to the frame
and the bulb will go in the bottom,
in fact, I'm too impatient, I want to see what
the bulb looks like, now.
She's a nice one.
Its kind of Steampunk-ish isn't it?
Oh, that's got to be the one, that looks rad.
Yeah, all right, we're going with this one.
Okay, well next problematic job
is going to be getting this through the frame.
I'm going to see if I can get this off, actually,
and see what the interface is like on the inside
but, nah, actually no I won't, who am I kidding?
Snippy snip.
Won't be needing that bit.
Now, this could be a painful operation
but lets see if it goes, actually,
its got to go through there first
and then in, use my internal cable routing kit,
somehow, to get this through to the other side.
(chuckling)
May as well use a park tool, blue cable tie, hadn't I?
There's something in there, notching it around.
Oh, I can see it.
Park tool to the rescue.
I love this stuff, I'm such a geek.
Okay, so, made my mind up, we're going to go with
a bit of Araldite around the bottom of here.
I'll turn it upside down, leave that with the weight on it,
so it can set, basically, Araldite is like an epoxy
adhesive, you mix the two little portions together,
basically, bond it together, leave it to set.
Go and make a coffee, I guess, while that's happening.
And then we'll come back and see if it works.
(coffee machine grinding)
Okay, moment of truth, lets see if the Araldite has worked.
I think it will have done, its pretty good stuff.
Yes, solid.
I'm going to wire up that plug, get the bulb in
and then we can get a little
idea of what its going to look like.
Light bulb in.
Moment of truth.
Yes.
Okay, now artist's impression, imagine,
without the cable, that being on the wall on the GMBN set
and we're going to build a hinge so you can move
it side to side and get it where you want.
Is it just me or does that look really cool.
I think that looks wicked.
Now, it just needs mounting to the wall,
so, I've got these eyelet bolts, as I mentioned,
they're just about the right length
to go through the frame there, so,
I'll drill one at the top, one at the bottom there.
Delivery man has been and this is, essentially,
what I'm going to deal with, so, they will be mounted
on the wall, the bolts go through the frame
and it will, hopefully, pivot quite nicely.
Slight downside is these ones I had lying around,
they're way too small, as expected,
these ones are huge, massive ones,
so they're 12 mil bolts, that's no problem,
it won't look too out of place on the frame
'cause you only have the eyelet poking out the back, there,
but the problem is, I haven't got a drill bit that size,
the biggest I've got is a six and a half mil,
so, a little bit of bodging is going to be involved.
I'll do a pilot hole and then I'll
drill with the six and a half, then I'll just have
to make it big enough to get that through.
And I'm also going to need to cut these down.
(drill whirring)
Not bad.
(file grinding)
(drill whirring)
(file grinding)
Job done.
Got our old friend, angle grinder again, for this.
(angle grinder whirring)
Perfect, I'll get a washer on there, to cover up that hole
and lets do the other one.
(angle grinder whirring)
I think I'm going to go back and I'll trim
these bolts down, get them flush
but I'm going to source some washers,
I haven't got any washers, here,
and I really want to have washers to spread
that load out a bit, so, the aim would be that
they would go on the wall and you could turn it.
So, I say, I'm going to chuck it on this wall,
just to give it a quick try, to see if that works.
Hopefully that will be good enough.
(drill whirring)
Obviously, this isn't really how you'd install it
but I just want to see if it works.
(drill whirring)
This will get it close to what its going to be
on the GMBN tech set and then lets
get the bulb in there, we'll get a little
artist's impression of how it might look.
Put this fella back in here.
There we go, we got out wall mountable light.
Bit rough around the edges and, of course,
I've done it a little bit differently
to how some people would, I'm really pleased
with that in the head tube, there,
just by chance, that light fitting is great,
the bulb, actually chose by Dan Dan the Cameraman,
really nice, its just an LED Edison-style bulb
with a fancy inside, there, so its not even going to get hot.
And then, yeah, so I've put it on a hinge, basically,
'cause on the new set, we want to be able to
move it around so you can get it in shot
and get it out of shot and don't ever see the bad stuff,
on the back, from where I've cut it off.
That cable will go straight into the wall
and its going to go up to a switch
and its going to be, roughly, just out of shot.
But, there you go, I'm sure people would do them differently
again, if you've got a carbon frame,
dust mask is good and you probably want to directly mount
'cause you can get a real clean look
but, I quite like being able to
move it in and out of shot.
(relaxed music)
Well, there we go, there is my wall mounted light,
made from an up-cycled or a recycled mountain bike frame
that was fit for nothing, I think its a pretty
good use for a frame, it looks cool,
its a bit retro, its got a bit of me about it,
bit of GMBN tech going on, there,
its going to look great, in the new set, I think.
If there's any other videos you'd love to see
us make along these lines,
making stuff out of bike components or artwork
or fitting out the workshop, anything you want to know,
let us know, in those comments underneath,
I'd love to make some more stuff like this,
like, this is me to a tee.
But, I've got to say, even though its got
the convenience of swinging around,
I would much rather a neater one,
like the ones I talked about earlier,
where you cut down the seat tube
and you fit it 'cause it looks like
its poking straight out of the wall.
Its very cool but, for our new set,
this is going to be quite functional,
being able to move it around, get it out of the way
for certain shots, so, kind of pleased with that.
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