Lamps by own hands - features of manufacturing

As you know, for the decoration of the interior lamps have always been used, which not only fulfill their original purpose for lighting the room, but also can bring in it a certain charm and uniqueness. Lately, many different types of lamps have appeared, including salt lamps, lamp lava, and ultraviolet llamas, but nothing can replace imaginary lamps made with their own hands.

Consider, for example, how to make a lava lamp at home

The principle of operation of all lava lamps is based on the difference in the densities of immiscible liquids. When they are heated, the density changes and fluid flows. After using a light bulb, the oil liquid on the bottom heats up, bubbles come off and rise upwards. Being on the surface, these drops cool down and drop to the bottom, if you paint them in a bright color, you get a very beautiful sight.

Lamps with their own hands are made quite simply, for this purpose it is necessary to have a vessel that is tightly closed, to pick up the material for the base of the future lamp, to take a bulb of the necessary power and a cartridge for it, alcohol, castor oil and as a dye it is possible to use oil paints.

Making a lamp with your own hands does not require special skills, when creating a base, you can use a variety of material, its shape will depend only on your imagination. On the base is attached a cartridge with a bulb and a vessel with a liquid. Now it is necessary to carry out the staining of the liquid, first the dye component is painted. Pour it into a vessel in which there is already a mixture of alcohol and water. It is necessary to leave in the vessel a little space, which will be necessary when expanding the heated liquid. If you see that the fatty fluid will immediately pop up, this indicates that it is necessary to change the alcohol density. It should be remembered that if you need to reduce the density, then you need to add alcohol, and if you increase - water. Now you need to test the lamp. If you are satisfied with the result, then it remains only to tightly seal the vessel, while the cover is better to glue. After that, assemble all the parts in one piece, and the lamp created by the lava with your own hands will delight you and surprise your comrades, who will admire it and your talents.

Let's give another recipe for making such a lamp with our own hands. In this design, glitters and various objects will be used that will move during heating. To produce it, you need a vessel, small and light objects, salt or sugar, paraffin, a light bulb and vegetable oil. In the vessel, approximately half, water is poured in and liquid paraffin is added, there we add our items. After that, pour in the oil and wait until it completely separates from the water. Now you can add a little crystals of salt or sugar and conduct the heating of the vessel with the liquid. The lamp is ready, and you will always enjoy a unique and beautiful spectacle during her work.

How to make an ultraviolet lamp

If you have a desire to create yourself an ultraviolet lamp, then this will require a little skill. To produce such a lamp, you will need an ordinary street thermometer of cylindrical shape, 9 ultraviolet diodes and three resistors.

First, you need to disassemble the thermometer, pull out a scale from it and make 9 holes for it in the ultraviolet diode. To make the reflection better, the entire scale should be wrapped in a metal foil, which must be carefully smoothed.

After that, we insert our diodes into the holes obtained and weld them in three pieces in parallel. We check their glow, it will be bright enough. Such a lamp will be enough to illuminate small areas of the room or to allocate some objects in it. The most important thing is that everything can be done by one's own hands and does not take a lot of time and considerable resources.