Car Parts Lamp 5                                   03-2018

 

 

I'll be using the three existing threaded holes on the cam to attach my adapter to. Here I'm drilling and chamfering for some 3/8" flat head cap screws. This should work pretty good and it won't add much weight either.
 

 

 

The next thing I'll be doing is attaching the cam to the base. I had a couple of ideas here but the easiest way was to weld them together. Before I welded anything, I wanted to make sure the two surfaces were nice and square. To do that I took a clean-up cut on the end of the cam so it would be square. I did the cut on my milling machine using the same tooling that I drilled it with.  Here I'm using some 1/4" all-thread that is placed through both pieces to use as a clamp.
 

 

 

Here is the bottom along with a few different size washers and finally a 1/4" nut to finish it off with. Once I had everything clamped in place, I used my calipers to make sure the cam and base were centered.
 

 

 

This was an easy process and it didn't take long to weld.
 

 

 

I don't think these will ever come apart because I put the heat to it. So far I'm happy with it and it stayed straight.
 

 

 

Here you can see the adapter screwed on and now I'm ready for some lamp hardware.
 

 

 

If you're wondering what the sparkplug is for, I'll be using it to hold on to while turning the light on and off. It will be a fancy pull chain knob.
 

 

 

The light socket had a really short pull chain on it which I didn't like. And I didn't want to have one of those couplers visible while holding the two chains together so I took the socket apart and added the one I bought.
 

 

 

Some sparkplugs have a screw on top so I made sure to buy one like that. The reason for this is so I could attach the pull chain to it somehow. After playing with it for a few minutes, I didn't like how things were going. Time for plan B.
 

 

 

I found another screw on piece that I had laying around (bottom) and decided to make a small change. While I was crimping the first one, the material cracked and I wasn't happy with it.
 

 

 

The reason it cracked is because the wall thickness was too thick so I sanded my other down to make it thinner (arrow). This should allow me to bend or crimp this area much easier now.
 

 

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