Iconic French Wonder Lamp - Restoration
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May 31, 2019 09:50
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In this video i'm restoring an old french Wonder lamp.
My good friend TysyTube Restoration bought this Wonder lamp on a flea market in Paris. He asked me if I want to restore it and obviously I said yes. He already restored two of them himself, I link his videos and channel below. These Wonder lamps are very well known in France, they're used on railroads mostly as far as I know.
I first wanted to paint the inside of the lamp white, but as soon as I saw the amazing look of the sandblasted aluminium I decided to go with that. I just had to remove the casting marks first and then sandblast it again. I choose yellow for the lamp with black letters and black for the handle and the switch. It had a few brass parts that were deformed to keep them in place, which I had to grind away to loosen them. I made all these parts new on the lathe and mill and gave them a nice mirror polish. I deformed them again when reassembling, except for the threads. It was quite a challenge to organize the battery, as they're not produced anymore today. MC-51 rust remover did an amazing job on the very rusty steel parts, a bit of sanding and polishing and they appeared like brand new. Same goes for the plastic parts, I sanded them wet with 400 grit and polished them with car wax.
I really like how this lamp turned out, even that the colours are not original, the yellow goes very nice with the black and polished parts in my opinion. As I mentioned above, I'll keep this lamp for myself for display.
I hope you like my work and the video.
Huge thank you to all of my Patreon and PayPal supporters and specially to:
Lewis Mocker
Uwe Keim
Jonathan McGhie
Anthony Archer
William V.
Afreeflyingsoul
Micky McKay
Alan Hanson
Alex Roussos
Gregory
Joan Casanovas
John Romero
Jonathan Heckerman
Paul Mampilly
SA Graver
Vince Valenti
Zachary Grimes
Timestamps:
Time and costs of this restoration:
I was working on this project over 2,5 weeks
Wonder lamp was a presant from TysyTube :-) Thank you
$35 Battery
$20 two component primer
$20 two component yellow coat (RAL1003)
$20 two component black coat (RAL9005)
$5 rivets
$5 bulbs
My camera:
Panasonic HC-V180
TysyTube Restoration channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIGEtjevANE0Nqain3EqNSg
TysyTube's Wonder lamp restoration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se47FWgfub0&t=1459s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwX51aT8AJ4&t=943s
If you have any questions about the process, machines i'm using or other stuff, just ask me in the comments. I read them all and i try to reply as soon as possible.
Sorry for my bad english, it's not my language. I try my best to improve my technical english.
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