Hi All,
Have been mostly radio silent over the past week having annoyingly flared my gimpy back baling a friend out of a car accident problem. No good deed goes unpunished.
Therefore I took a brief break from the garage and worked instead in the basement.
A local friend has access to a surplus stock of LED bulbs used to refit fluorescent fixtures and donated a few more to my cause. These work with the standard "tombstone" connector, of which I had four remaining. Using absolutely the scrappiest of scrap plywood (from a crate I made 30 years ago to schlep a seized Alfa motor on at least four successive house moves) and zip ties (see my homage to zip ties in Discseven's Fuel Filter Console thread) I knocked-together two fixtures.
I then added an outlet onto the end of an existing lamp circuit in my basement ...
... the purpose of which was to illuminate the work are for my newly acquired Singer 241-3 (1940 production) industrial sewing machine, to explore the next frontier: 924S seat upholstery.
The light these lamps yield is impressive. My means of holding them together may strike some as appallingly crapulent, but they're strong (enough), safe and were free. I enjoy fixing old things or assembling found/surplus items to create something of utility ... could happily play like that all day.
John