So in part 1, I brought home a sad little lamp from our trashroom.
This is the post where this sad little lamp is sad no more! Now it's a graceful fancypants lamp!
I went to IKEA and picked up the parts: $4.99 for a GRUNDTON (table lamp kit) and $8.99 for two SPARSAM flourescent bulbs. I'm only going to count this fix as costing $4.99+$4.50=$9.50 because I only use one of the bulbs. We have another IKEA lamp that takes this size bulb so the extra will just be a household spare.
Anyway, I happened to be meeting someone to sell some old laptop RAM for $10 today. So today's net dollar spend is zero!
On to the pictures!
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Make sure the lamp isn't DOA before I get my grubby mitts on it...
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It took almost 2 hours to get to this far... the grundton wire was thicker than the original and it was really tough getting it through the neck. Oh! And I took a break to get my 10 bucks....
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Me and electricity understand each other perfectly. I remain scared of it, and I remain alive. If I really did mess up the wire while pushing and pulling through the lamp neck... I was wondering if those rubber tipped stanleys would really insulate me from 1.21 jiggawatts of instant teeth clenching....?
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And now some glamour shots! Old Lamp, this is YOUR time to SHINE!!!!!1
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"Why's that sticker there," you ask? Well, it's because.... Old Lamp is sitting on top of DialupPC's case! DialupPC is now our Windows Home Server (simply the awesomest backup/fileshare OS. Ever.)
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That's all, folks!
-Dean :)