access to that equipment otherwise wire nuts and electrical tape make a safe and removable way to connect the wires together for the purpose of this demonstration i'm just using eight standard double-a batteries that you can find at the grocery store the hardware store pretty much anywhere a better long-term solution would be to look online for rechargeable double-a batteries with a longer milliamp hour rating i'll leave a link in the description box for the particular batteries that i've been using after i experimented with the three different techniques and decided the third one using the double a battery bank was the most practical i wanted to create my own two custom cordless lamps for my living room you can create a lamp out of almost anything usually the only parts that you need to fabricate would be the neck or stem of the lamp i had a bit of half inch diameter steel conduit left over from building our house which i cut down to one inch lengths which i gave an upgrade using a coat of primer and two coats of paint i provided links for all the products used in the video description so make sure you check that out for the bodies of my lamps i decided to use these two large spherical lawn ornaments that i found at my local home decor store they're designed to be weighed down by filling them with sand or gravel so conveniently they have a large opening on the bottom which can be unscrewed the first thing i needed to do to modify the spheres was to drill a half inch hole through the top this hole will allow me to feed the wires from the inside of the lamp up through the neck one half inch is the standard diameter of a brass lamp nipple yes i know it sounds funny but the piece of hardware which connects the neck to the body of the lamp is called a nipple in my experience this connection tends to get loose over time allowing the head of the lamp to wobble a little bit so for these lamps i decided to use removable tank bond liquid thread locker by tap tank bond thread locker has an all-purpose gel formula which creates a strong removable bond between fasteners the gel consistency is easy to apply and helps avoid messes it comes in both permanent and removable formulas i chose to use the removable formula in case i ever want to swap out the lamp hardware down the road before i started assembly there were two more pieces of standard lamp kit hardware that i wanted to modify slightly a standard lamp hardware kit comes with a brass washer and brass nut which are used to attach the nipple to the body of the lamp i decided i wanted to join the two pieces together so i pulled out one of my favorite products of all time tap rapid fuse all-purpose adhesive if you go back and watch more of my videos you'll see that i use dap rapid fuse on the vast majority of my projects that i build it sets in NUMBER_TOKEN seconds and fully cures in only NUMBER_TOKEN minutes dap recently came out with the new gel control applicator which is perfect for precise applications like joining these small brass parts together with all my components prepped i began to add my lamp hardware to the lawn ornament bodies when creating your own diy lamp you can purchase all your lamp hardware components separately but i highly recommend purchasing an off-the-shelf lamp hardware kit they're fairly inexpensive and they include everything you need from wiring to the brass hardware to the light bulb
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN locker has an all-purpose gel formula which creates a strong removable bond between fasteners the gel consistency is easy to apply and helps avoid messes it comes in both permanent and removable formulas i chose to use the removable formula in case i ever want to swap out the lamp hardware down the road before i started assembly there were two more pieces of standard lamp kit hardware that i wanted to modify slightly a standard lamp hardware kit comes with a brass washer and brass nut which are used to attach the nipple to the body of the lamp i decided i wanted to join the two pieces together so i pulled out one of my favorite products of all time tap rapid fuse all-purpose adhesive if you go back and watch more of my videos you'll see that i use dap rapid fuse on the vast majority of my projects that i build it sets in NUMBER_TOKEN seconds and fully cures in only NUMBER_TOKEN minutes dap recently came out with the new gel control applicator which is perfect for precise applications like joining these small brass parts together with END_SPONSOR_TOKEN