Street lamps

Play-Doh

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Ive done some searching on the forum and come up empty handed. Has anyone ever posted a tutorial or thread about scratchbuilding HO street lamps? Ive been experimenting by myself and come up with nothing more than 30 bucks in the hole and a severe soldering iron burn on my wrist. I need some guidance before I seriously hurt myself.

Thanks
TJ
 

Chaparral

Member
Scratchbuilt O scale street lights

I have scanned and saved a jpeg article from the October 1991 Model Railroader
" Scratchbuilding O scale streetlights ". They are old fashioned gas lamps.
Looks like the author used punched styrene discs, sequins, beads,brass tube and a 6 volt transformer to power 16 volt GWB bulbs.

The full file dimensions are 727 x 1000.
Size is 276 kb.

here's a tid bit
 

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nachoman

Oh, it is an old link for the old forum. You are gonna have to seach "lamp posts" or something sililar from the new forum to find it.

Kevin
 

MasonJar

It's not rocket surgery
Here's a replacement link:

http://forum.zealot.com/t99548/

And a diagram that I posted somewhere (but now cannot find). To make the light pole pictured, you will need a grain of wheat or grain of rice bulb on a long wire, some styrene tubing, and a lampshade of some sort (detail part, or even a paper circle cut to fit). The wire can be stiffened with superglue or you can solder in a section of brass wire.

Andrew
 

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