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Steampunking a Bar Lantern

by Infrasonic on January 24, 2012

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Intro: Steampunking a Bar Lantern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Step 1: Changing the light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Step 2: The eye of the lantern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Step 3: Columns to the corners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Step 4: Changing the footage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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Author:Infrasonic
Im workig as a technican for computer wiring in germany. Got a head full of ideas but so little time...

Intro: Steampunking a Bar Lantern

First I have to say that this is my second instructable and as some people noticed at my first - it is a showable. I am sorry for that but this is the result of my way to do
these things. I search for antiques and matching parts everywhere and everytime and after collecting these I combine this parts to something else. Sometimes I search
for something very special (and order this from realy extraordinary specialists) and on the other hand I find matching inspirations in my collection of founded parts of junk,
waist, garbage.
I found this Lantern on a fleamarked and got it realy cheap. Its made of tinplate and the glas is a bottle. I think a cover on the spout is missing. In the stand is a battery
compartment (2 C-cells - 3 V) and a switch and a small bulb is under the bottle. All in all its a good base to steampunk it.

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Step 1: Changing the light

After inserting batteries I experienced that everything worked but the bulb was dark and boring. I opened all and disassembled the bulb and the lamp socket of plastic (it
was wedged in the bottom) and cut the wires up there. Some weeks ago I bought some flickering candles, tealights made from LEDs and a CR2016 and soldered 6 of the
LEDs to a small ring for another idea that didnt work. In this lantern they should develop the life that I missed with the bulb. So I replaced this first.
The wiring is from the original now, only the bulb was changed to the LEDs. Because the soldering was made for something completely different I covered the metal
housing with tape down the hole to prevent any shortcuts or losses.
At this point the electric modifications will do it for now. Lets do the steampunkination and look where it goes.

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1. All the parts
2. The bottle with the screws on it
3. lamp socket with bulb
4. Spout
5. Lantern housing of tinsheet

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1. A ring of flickering LEDs all soldered parallel to the 3 V circuit

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1. The new lightning. You see the green tape covering at the hole.

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1. The bottle has enough space for a small bulb and a lamp socket so it can take
the LEDs too.

Step 2: The eye of the lantern

The look of a lantern is heavily changed by a magnifying glass. And I love it. I love the old torches that uses them and I love the old film- or slide projectors with this look.
In a dollar shop I found paper weights of glass and I just had to scratch off the picture on the plain side. Things like this Ive got in stock - I take them as I see them and
these will fit to many other objects.
To prevent scratches and as a ground for constructing I taped the funnel with paper tape. Next I marked the outer diameter of the glass. With the tool you see in the
picture woodturners are allowed to find the center of round objects and it helped me too. The whole construction was made on the funnel and at least I needed marks at
the 45-135-215-305 degrees.
From the 0-90-180-270 degrees I marked the half with compasses. I used the compasses also to mark the distance from the outer rim for the screwholes. I realy couldnt
figure out where to place them so I guessed. And Mr. Spock couldnt have done better...
The found and marked points got punched and drilled 3 mm wide. 4 M3 screws, each with a srew-nut on the inner and outer side fixes the glass perfect. No glue or
silicon. No rattling or sticking.

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1. First fitting

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1. I love this tool

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1. A pencil followed the glass

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1. Identified West
2. Identified North West
3. Measured North

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1. Punching (important!!!)

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1. Drilling

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1. Smiling

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1. Smiling more

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Step 3: Columns to the corners

From a junkyard I took some turned brass pieces. I dont know were they are from but they looked like theyld get their appearance sometimes. I have short and longer
pieces and together they nearly fit to the lamp housing. To push the look to steampunk I slaughtered a clockwork (or two) and added a gear wheel in the middle.
The bottom of the lamp housing has already drill holes at each corner and the bottle inside leaves enough space to assamble a screw there. As the columns are realy
heavy I decieded to make holders of brass only from downwards but it should be strong enough to keep everything upright. I made the holders from 4 mm brass and 1/3
of the length is behind the connecting screw to the housing so I have a good support by friction and lever.

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1. Each corner should get a column. This is loose assambled.

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1. The gear wheel specifics the distance to the housing, because its the biggest
diameter.

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1. The holes are 4 mm

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1. Looking for matching screws in the M4 drawer.

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1. Any M4 screw would fit in here.

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1. The mark is at diameter of the adjacent part of the column plus 6 mm (3 mm
at each side)

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1. Im doing this with a hand saw. 4 x of course.

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1. Equalizing all with a file. Changing order and direction of the pieces
sometimes makes it more equal.

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1. After marking the middle, the same distance is used from the top so this hole
is drilled with 3 times the same distance to outwards. The drill is 2 mm to center
all first.

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1. I drill with oil to cover the tool from heat and get good results.

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1. After opening the hole to 6 mm (for the columns) I deburred both sides of each
hole.

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1. Grinding with the machine. A screw holds all now. The other is just to have
the same high but that?s only needed at the short sides.

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1. In the middle is the position for the M4 hole to connect to the housing.

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1. Punched. Important!!!

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1. The table says I need 3.3 mm hole for M4 thread.

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1. For threading all 4 plates at once I use a 3 step thread drill.

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1. The marks tell the order to use:
1 mark = first
2 marks = second
no mark = last

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1. Everything is well done and the block is fixed with 2 screws now.

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1. This is a drill with a centering tip. After finding the correct position I drilled a

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matching hole to this tip so this drill can drill down without slipping away.

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1. And this is the result.

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1. The file shapes everything to a new outline.

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1. Some more contours and the first fitting for the columns.

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Step 4: Changing the footage

At least the foot is looking boring and I dont like swich position in the front.
I thought about changing the whole thing to a massive brass candle foot I have but I would need to add the energy managemant and the weight of the thing is already at
about 4 pounds. Its cold outside and even colder in my workshop so a modification is all I want to do now.
So I looked in the parts I disassambled from a old clock and found the holders wich connected the clockwork to its wooden housing. The angle was exact the same as
the foot of the lantern, they are black and I had 4 of them - good luck. At this point I didnt knew what to mount there but 4 holes at each holder that point right downwards
make anything possible.
To reach the place with my drill I had to disassamble the foot. Its connected with bounded plate. After marking the position and drilling I fixed the new holders with M3
screws and reassambled all with the switch backwards.
I thought a little bit about adding some fancy funky stuff there but at least a steampunk lantern has to be a tool in several expeditions. A steampunk lantern has to go to
new worlds and has to work in unbelievable and unknown situations. So I made the stand adjustable with 8 M3 screws and 16 screw-nuts. This lantern can be adjusted to
the slopes and dales of the moon as well as the different concavity of venus or deep under the surface of the earth in any cave.

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1. Assambling point of the new footage.

1. The lantern got new shoes on!

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1. I lost something in the workshop...

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1. This is ready for now and perfectly adjusted to this table.

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