One thing leads to another...

"MM54" (mm54mk2) 11/20/2017 at 23:07 • Filed to: Houselopnik

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A friend of mine recently sold his MGB, and like every other person with a British car, had a bunch of spare parts laying around. For lack of being able to get rid of it, he gave me a dismantled transmission. After work today he stopped by and dropped off the case, one thing lead to another, and now it’s a lamp.

We were able to secure the post of a broken lamp to the output bearing with some washers/nuts and feed the cord out through the clutch fork opening. The rest is just normal transmission/lamp stuff. Need to get some rubber or felt feet to put on it so I can set it directly on the tile floor in the basement.

Spanfeller is a twat > MM54 11/20/2017 at 23:15

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You should make it such that the gear stick controls the intensity of the light and it’s off when in neutral

MM54 > Spanfeller is a twat 11/20/2017 at 23:18

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He doesn’t have any spare shifters left (has sold off just about the rest of the parts) or we discussed making it a 3-way bulb controlled by gear position.

deekster_caddy > MM54 11/20/2017 at 23:19

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Hey wait, not all british car owners have... *checks garage, british car; checks shelf, lots of spare parts* hmmm. Well admittedly I don’t have a spare transmission for my MG, but I have a spare trans and two spare engines for my old Buick...

Spanfeller is a twat > MM54 11/20/2017 at 23:19

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nice

lone_liberal > MM54 11/20/2017 at 23:30

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How many lumens can an MG transmission hold up under? How does that compare to a TH400?

smobgirl > deekster_caddy 11/20/2017 at 23:38

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I mean, better some parts than whole spare cars?

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > MM54 11/21/2017 at 05:42

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I do hope you call it ‘Lucas’.

shop-teacher > MM54 11/21/2017 at 07:01

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This is good lamplopnik.

Boxer_4 > MM54 11/21/2017 at 12:05

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Awesome!

Though, now I have songs by “The Fixx” stuck in my head...so, uh, thanks I guess...

deekster_caddy > smobgirl 11/21/2017 at 13:31

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Yeah, I certainly know of a few MG guys who keep entire spare cars. The metal is so thin if they are left outside to rot, they go really fast...

MM54 > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 11/21/2017 at 18:11

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Risky (I’d like it to keep working) but clever!

MM54 > lone_liberal 11/21/2017 at 18:12

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If my 1000W halogen shop light breaks and I find a spare TH400 case laying around, I’ll let you know.