Bandsaw work light--looking for ideas

[lou sansone]

Lou, the adjective "little" refers to the light and should precede it, not that BIG HONKIN' SAW . Is that a 36"? Man that is sweet.

it is a 36" saw.

here is the link to the full photo tour of the saw
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=19846

enjoy

["Gary Brewer"]

Greg: Thanks for responding to my question. All three mounts on the LV have half-sphere ( half a ball ) indents that are adjacent to each other around the circumference of the mount cylinder where your's has vertical lines with smaller vertical indents between them. The two steel ball bearings are also on my lamp under the collar and they fit in the half-sphere indents. The release collar on the lv is metal not plastic. That answers the question of why your collar is black in the picture. I put a magnet on my metal collar and it stuck but not very strongly. I would post a picture but because of I've spent all my money on woodworking tools I have not yet bought a digital camera. I need one or two more lamps in my shop and this helps. The Danray and the Moffett from the other company listed can be had with longer necks which is very nice. The lee valley has only the 18 neck. I might call Moffatt to see if what is on the lv is on their longer necked lamps marketed under their name.
Thanks again,
Gary

[Steven Wilson]

If you go to the Moffatt site and look at the PDF that describes the product line there are a number of connection methods including a lamp with an L bracket that you screw to the frame. They make fixed mount as well as quick relase mount lights.

[John Petsche]

great bandsaw light ideas, need to install one. Thanks.

[Keith Hankins]

I use the flexible light from woodcraft. Works great and you can attach anywhere with metal for the magnet. Has led lights and works well.

http://www.woodcraft.com/Product/202...sing-Head.aspx

[Lee Schierer]

I have the Delta magnetic base light and it works well. It stays put and gives plenty of light on the cut line.

[glenn bradley]

Good responses but, the thread is from 2007(?).

[Marc Prudhomme]

Better late than never

Good responses but, the thread is from 2007(?).

[Joe Jensen]

I just ordered a AAA LED flashlight on ebay. It is less than 1/2" in diameter and it was $8.85 delivered. I will see how it fits down in the blade guard or along side it. If it's good I'll use just the head and hardwire it to a 1.5V power supply that comes on with my bandsaw. I'll post pics if it works

[James Cheever]

Another vote for a Moffat light with the magnetic base. You can buy them on Amazon.

[Matt Day]

Better late than never

That's double funny since you dug this thread up from two months ago!

[CPeter James]

There these from Ikea: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20169658/

[Bill Rhodus]

Jameel, I saw the post about installing a transformer to reduce the 220 to 110v and agree this is a good way to do this, however, if your supply wiring comes into the machine via a junction box (all of my machines have a box of some sort that the pigtail attaches to) you can pick up one of the two load legs, a neutral, and a ground for the light without installing the transformer. A small in-line breaker rated for the light should be installed on the load wire to the light but this should be done for a transformer feed as well because the breaker feeding the machine will be sized too large to protect the size wires that the light circuit will have. If you don't understand this, have an electrician do it.

[Rod Sheridan]

Jameel, I saw the post about installing a transformer to reduce the 220 to 110v and agree this is a good way to do this, however, if your supply wiring comes into the machine via a junction box (all of my machines have a box of some sort that the pigtail attaches to) you can pick up one of the two load legs, a neutral, and a ground for the light without installing the transformer. A small in-line breaker rated for the light should be installed on the load wire to the light but this should be done for a transformer feed as well because the breaker feeding the machine will be sized too large to protect the size wires that the light circuit will have. If you don't understand this, have an electrician do it.

That would work, however I've never seen a single phase 240 volt machine that had a neutral............I simply added a control transformer and fuses to mine.......Rod.

[Keith Hankins]

I've got one of those magnetic led lights works great. I just have to remember to cut it off

http://www.woodcraft.com/Product/202...sing-Head.aspx