skeer
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Picked up a Dazor lamp at the junkyard this past Saturday. When I saw it it jostled a memory, when I was a kid my grandfather on my dads side had a small engine/Polaris business. When I saw that lamp it reminded me that he had had one on his desk back then.
So I grabbed it immediately! Other than rust and the switch not working it was intact and undamaged.
So I got it home and proceeded to take it apart, I was able to get every screw out without snapping any. Cleaned all the metal , removed the paint and got a first coat of primer on them.
Then worked on the shade, got the switch and tombstones out, also all intact. This guy is original 1950’s as it was full of fabric enclosed wire.
At this point I primer’d the remaining parts, took the switch inside and discovered it was fine other than the buttons being a bit too nasty to slide in the metal flanges.
The next day is where I screwed up. After painting, and while trying to reassemble the guy started with the first elbow I realized I had to pull the smaller steel rod downward, brace it with something so that it could be inserted and clamped into the elbow halves. So when I had disassembled that joint the spring was more or less stuck in position… when reassembling this was not the case. Anyway longer story short I believe that the ears holding everything in the base together flexed just enough for the angled spring brace to pop out of position releasing it’s tension.
So now I’m left with, what I fully believe is a useless lamp..and I’m sad AF now. Tried various clamps, and the vice but I can only get things so far compressed.
So I grabbed it immediately! Other than rust and the switch not working it was intact and undamaged.
So I got it home and proceeded to take it apart, I was able to get every screw out without snapping any. Cleaned all the metal , removed the paint and got a first coat of primer on them.
Then worked on the shade, got the switch and tombstones out, also all intact. This guy is original 1950’s as it was full of fabric enclosed wire.
At this point I primer’d the remaining parts, took the switch inside and discovered it was fine other than the buttons being a bit too nasty to slide in the metal flanges.
The next day is where I screwed up. After painting, and while trying to reassemble the guy started with the first elbow I realized I had to pull the smaller steel rod downward, brace it with something so that it could be inserted and clamped into the elbow halves. So when I had disassembled that joint the spring was more or less stuck in position… when reassembling this was not the case. Anyway longer story short I believe that the ears holding everything in the base together flexed just enough for the angled spring brace to pop out of position releasing it’s tension.
So now I’m left with, what I fully believe is a useless lamp..and I’m sad AF now. Tried various clamps, and the vice but I can only get things so far compressed.