homemade headlamp

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Wickedest1

Wickedest1

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whipped up a dual front headlamp that i can run either from my magneto or my friction dynamo...kinda ghetto but its definitely way brighter than the single bulb ive been running...
got the bulb bases and lightbulbs from the shack for under $5...used some coffee tins as the light base itself
some spare wire
glue stick
some miscellaneous nuts and bolts
a piece of sheet metal as the dual base
some burnt fingertips
& voila


heres the link to the pics

http://motorbicycling.com/album.php?albumid=1068

HOPE YOU ENJOY
 
2door

2door

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Those little food cans come in handy. I've made air cleaner covers and wiring boxes from them. Some of them are stainless steel and will polish up like chrome with a little work on a bench buffer and some buffing compound. Vienna sausages, Underwood Deviled Ham, and the little flat ones that BBs or pellets come in also work.

Good work, thanks for sharing the ideas. Just curious what you're using for reflectors. You could sacrifice a couple of cheap flashlights and use the reflectors from them. Would male your lights a lot brighter.

Tom
 
fatdaddy

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2door is 100% right about the reflectors. Even The cheap flashlights use them for a reason. It would'nt be very hard to hot glue a couple in the light buckets.
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Wickedest1

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2door said:
Those little food cans come in handy. I've made air cleaner covers and wiring boxes from them. Some of them are stainless steel and will polish up like chrome with a little work on a bench buffer and some buffing compound. Vienna sausages, Underwood Deviled Ham, and the little flat ones that BBs or pellets come in also work.

Good work, thanks for sharing the ideas. Just curious what you're using for reflectors. You could sacrifice a couple of cheap flashlights and use the reflectors from them. Would male your lights a lot brighter.

Tom
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It never even occurred to me to do that...gonna hit the dollar store for donors...thanks guys...
 
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