Swing-arm Kerosene Wall Lamp
Jake von Slatt — Sat, 07/15/2006 - 00:00
Here's another real quick project, the two donor lamps are below, both came from our town dump this past weekend. This will be my first lamp with a glass font. Furthermore, this font has a hole in the bottom so I will be making liberal use of the non-traditional material; GE Silicon II Sealant.
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The first step was to dis-assemble the two lamps. I didn't strip the lacquer off of either because I won't be soldering anything but the #2 burner collar.

I used the lower brass cap from the floor lamp and a conical piece from the junk box to sandwich the bottom of the glass font. I used lots of silicon seal and tightened this very gently.
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Then I piled silicon seal all around and over the 3/8" threaded pipe that holds the font to the swing arm. Update: this worked for a while but the silicon eventually failed do to the constant contact with the kerosene.
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