Serious Readers, serious prices

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

An aside from the thread.

The thin column of our friend's standard lamp version, wobbled on the heavy base. Despite having tightened the 17 mm (A/F ) nut under the base, the wobble returned.

To stabilise it, I made up an Aluminium (Lacking any brass of sufficiently large diameter), sleeve, drilled and tapped M5 in four places before splitting it. The split sleeve was then clamped around the column to bear against the thin "gold" coloured steel cover over the base, after the 17 mm nut had been slackened sightly.

Since then, thankfully, the wobble has been absent.

Howard

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Howard Lewis on 03/01/2023 11:27:36:

The lamp that I replaced was also a G9 LED.

The price comparison was to show that although the "Genuine article" might be ridiculously overpriced, on the basis "What the seller thinks the buyer, knowing no better, will pay" to illustrate that replacements are easily available and much cheaper.

The idea was to help anyone else, like ega, who needed a replacement and did not want to have to take a mortgage for it!

Howard

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My sincere apologies, Howard … I evidently misinterpreted what you wrote.

MichaelG.

[blowlampParticipant @blowlamp]

Follow this video and you might be able to fix it.

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

Michael, No apology needed.

As we all know absolute precision is difficult to achieve

In this case, we are trying to prevent folk being charged needlessly high prices.

"Knowledge is power"., financial in this case.

Howard

[John HaineParticipant @johnhaine32865]

On another thread Michael G posted about an interesting LED which might be a good upgrade, or even the basis of a self-build better equivalent.

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