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I had this idea for years now but finally got round to doing it thanks to new house, i wanted to try and make something that would not look too much like a piece of a car. This is actually my girlfriend Lottie de-greasing the old cam shafts for me  cleaned up  and painted   Hope to get lampshades soon, would like to make these from scratch also but will have to see with time/money=possibility. |
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VWPowered
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sounds a great idea  |
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What profile will give the best light output I wonder...
If you use too hot a cam, will your bedtime reading suffer?
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Last Edit: Dec 4, 2009 16:22:31 GMT by Soopahfly
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What profile will give the best light output I wonder... If you use too hot a cam, will your bedtime reading suffer? ;D |
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Cool, they will look ace when they are done.
There was a girl who cropped up on here a while ago who was making wall and table lamps from car parts. She was studying design at Brighton uni I think.
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Looks really cool, I think I would have polished it rather than painted it though. Making car furniture is cool. I was planning on making some spot lamps out of old bowl headlamps. I was also planning on making a sofa from a cast iron bath but never got round to it |
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awesome i would love to see more odd stuff like this. i thought about polishing but i think they would have felt a bit cold.
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Hmmm, not sure they do it for me, they are not "pretty" enough, they remind me of old turned wooden jobbies, maybe its the colour?
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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They look cool. arent they in primer?
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i think they look pretty cool, where are you going to run the wiring? is the centre of the cam hollow??
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it's good old beige top coat, i was going to figure out a way of running the wires a bit hidden but am just going to have hem coming down the back maybe clip them at the bottom with something pretty.
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this sort of thing opens up a whole world of smuggling car parts into the house with swmbo approval
the engine can become a table like the one on top gear
as could a bellhousing
i suppose a gearbox and propshaft could become a standard lamp
there have been quite a few chunks of body shells turned into sofas, and on one of those build a new home programmes, a mini shell was turned into a (large) desk
should there be a competition to see who can smuggle the most amount of car into their house?
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i love these... but id have to cover em in cam grease (the red curse word) just for the effect  |
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hahaha, i convinced my girlfriend that a crank case whine rack will look cool. i did not tell her how much it could potentially weigh!
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it's good old beige top coat, I was going to figure out a way of running the wires a bit hidden but am just going to have hem coming down the back maybe clip them at the bottom with something pretty. if your gonna run them exposed itd be cool to wrap them to look like that old woven cable from back in the day |
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ooh that is a good idea, is there any good string to use for this, maybe i could slide it in a shoe string or something.
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shoe string is a cracking idea!, u might even be able to buy the proper stuff?
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Have you seen the crank stool that James (EightSix) made for Area52? You and he must think alike when it comes to making stuff with car parts:    Very comfy too! |
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have found someone through work that supplies old electrics for movies etc, will check him out and see if he has anything. get in.
i saw that stool, looks good. cranks are tricky to incorporate in a piece.
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