I’ve started working on a new lamp. The idea for this came from two components that have been kicking around on my work bench for a while that I realized would work well together. The first is one of those pneumatic things that prevents your trunk from slamming down on you which is now broken and only offers sleight resistance as it slides in and out. The second is this strange, plastic, green thing that already mounted to an aluminum bit that just screams to have an LED put in it.
The first thing I did was quickly machine two stainless bits that screw on to the threaded ends of the pneumatic thing. These are what I’ll use to attach the light and the base.
I did a quick CAD sketch to show all the basic movements it will have.
The pneumatic rod, now black, will be painted green to match the plastic green bit the LED will go in.
There is still allot to figure out about this one.
Oh, it’s called the Norgren Lamp because, the plastic bit was made by Norgren and still has there sticker on it.
