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Lamp-Wo&Man "Severing" External Ties..

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(from Lumberjocks.com)


Lamp-Wo&Man "Severing" External Ties..Boy and Girls,Inspired by Ross Leidy's projects on 17 & 25 Dec 2021, and further spurred on by WFJ on 30 Dec & 3 JanMy primary objective was to create a cordless Man-Lamp. I wasn't after pretty but rather functional and designed my version in SketchUp (after getting the original model off Ross L.)
What materialised on the above electronic paper seemed to rebel at the severance of that umbilical cord and my method of MDF lamination was disfigured by the spilling of excess CA and epoxy glue by the sticky subject matter… in English, after several modifications, finished up with Version 4

and he was named AdamAfter de-ribbing him, I thought I'd lay down an Eve so I can document some of the tricky processes for anyone dumb enough to try with a laser, CNC or the solid wood thrill seekers.Trying to keep it small and portable to accommodate the light source, the overall dimensions of the pieces were nominally 12mm x 12mm x 'length' out of 3mm and 6mm MDF. Using my MDF layered lamination method, the leg consisted of 2×3mm pieces to captivate the nut and a 6mm piece,
To allow for articulation, the thigh and upper arms were laminated out of 2×6mm pieces. To ensure proper alignment, I made some jigs out of 3mm MDF

to correctly place the pieces during glue ups.I had to doctor Ross's original tapered head design to compensate for the laser's 90 cut limitation,
The shoulder and hip (as with most of us) assemblies caused some grief as I was keeping it small at 12mm (2 layers of 6mm with some 6mm laminated from 2 of 3mm) and end grain MDF is not conducive to threading actually any MDF rebels unless you use rivnuts.
These were not practical and I finished up using epoxy

the theory is hidden somewhere in these build videos,

I built several jigs to centre the bolt (and “shoulder socket”) for epoxying into place,
For the knee and elbow joints, I used nylock nuts that can be pre-tightened using a screw driver on the retained nut,
Rather than using nylock nuts that would require a tool on the hip and shoulder, I chose to use wingnuts,

that could manually be adjusted.For the light, I used these 'torches' held in using a friction fit faceplate for ease of battery change,
Anyone interested, the Sketchup and other related files.If you're not into these sort of things, I hope you haven't read this far and are enjoying a pleasant warm vino or cold beer instead.Keep safe, jocks... and your jocks, safe!


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