Recent content by Harhir

I was at a small antique store on Sunday who had some of these insulators for sale. But they wanted $5 a pop which I thought too expensive. And they are not open at the top. You have to find a safe way to drill a hole through the glass. But being a home brewer I prefer the beer bottle lamps...

And here is how they look at night... My outdoor man cave since my indoor man cave is the garage... A Homebrewers paradise... ;-)

Here are my lamps now. It is copper piping soldered together. I used the switch from my previous post. It is screwed into a brass pipe reducer which screws into a copper pipe fitting. The top of the switch is covered with a 3/4 copper end cap which sits on the plastic switch knob. I had to use...

I have been looking for a while to build some of these "steam punk" lamps for my bar using steel pipes. The switch seems to be a tricky part but I think I found what some companies are using. Morris has one of these compact rotary switches...