[TheForge] Re: Shop Lighting

[Mike Spencer]

> 	Now, I wonder what other folks have to say<G>.

I hate working under fluorescents.

I have six of those ca. 20" white-enamel reflector fixtures common in
warehouses and the like 50 years ago.  They have ceramic sockets and I
put 300W clear bulbs in them.  All are wired as swag lamps, i.e. with
a cord to an outlet.  If I don't like where one is or it's in the way,
I just drive another nice little forged hook in somewhere else and
move the fixture.  Supplemented by a couple of flood lights -- 150W
and 1500W -- on movable stands.

Only thing I'd do differently is to put the ones that are over the
work benches and the anvil on simple tracks, swing-arms or the like.
Then if, say, there's a shadow in the wrong place while working at the
vise, I could just nudge the light fixture  one way or the other a
bit.

I did that for my wife's loom.  A somewhat different industrial
fixture, sort of a fresnel diffuser glass shade, 200W bulb, fixture
can track anywhere in a 4'x5' area, getting max light to the work
position, back-beam or wherever.

I have a few more fixtures of both types and I'll likely add more of
them as plug-in swags this summer.

FWIW,
- Mike

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