You could make one of those with an empty butane lighter, a short length of aluminum arrow shaft or copper pipe or whatever, some JB weld and cotton clothesline for A LOT(yes a lot is TWO words LOL) less than 15 bucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by vthompson
I didn't remember ever seeing this before, until about half way through the thread. Then I remembered my dad and his friends used the stubs of aluminum arrow shafts left when the shaft was cut to length for all kinds of things, including a lamp with a cotton clothes line soaked with oil of some kind on a base made of scrap wood and a soda pop bottle cut with one of those bottle cutters for crafters that were all the rage in the 70s. They used the top half as the "globe" of the lamp. They also made a tinder tube arrangement. Thanks for bringing this up I remembered a lot of stuff I'd forgotten about homemade gear my dad and his elders and friends made.
