How to make a cool CD Lamp

Nice One

Cool one

that's interesting

Um... You're missing a few pics. Like how did you get the holes in the CDs? What are you using to space the CDs? How far apart, etc

Awesome! You should sell these! I'm too lazy to make one, but Id totally buy one

Washers appear to be used to space the cd's. Rather thick washers at that

Nicely done.

WillRawls: If you can't figure out a way make the holes yourself, you really shouldn't be doing anything with saws to begin with. I don't think the spacing is that critical for this project

I love lamp

that's because they got it from another site
http://photocreations.ca/cd_lamp2/index.html

excellent use of materials, plastic cd's dont decompose, so any use of them after theyve become beaten up and unusable is a plus. make a mosaic next

welllll, it's highly unlikely that a saw was used to make the holes in the cds and the spacing is pretty critical if you actually want light

what to do with all them bad burns -- good idea

what happens when you have to change the bulb?

nICE

omg thats neato, right on thanks for the pics
making a hole in the cd would be easy use a hole saw (it is basically a special drill bit for cutting holes in stuff) thats just the simplest way see to make uniform holes repeatedly there's probably other ways.
a note on plagiarism, who gives a damn unless of course someone makes money of your work. it's the freakin internet pretty much everyone downloads movies, or at least music, free thats almost plagiarism more correctly copyright infringement, but still same idea :P (yes you can rape me with comments how it's not the same or how you don't but honestly i don't care even a little bit because i have no soul :P

Take a look again at pics 12 and 13. The spacers were cut out of the center of each CD, probably using a hole saw as mentioned above. This provides spacers, as well as room for the bulb. Since 3 spacers are used between each CD, you will need more CDs than are used for the lamp itself. According to pic 14, no hole is cut in the top CD. A decent highspeed drill bit can drill the holes for the threaded rods; not too difficult

we used a device called a dinker for puting bigger holes in vynil 45s so they would work in juke boxes.on e4arly seeburgs it affected the speed the disc played at 45rpm 0r 33rpm for EPs
whoopy doo

Wow, what a waste of time and effort. Kind of like the builder

cool lamp thanks for sharing

It would be cool if you made one out of a big fluorescent tube lamp

A better use for these presumably defunct cds would be to hang them on trees and vegetables in your garden to deter the birds from eating your fruit. Also some cds are made of a material which can be inflammable or even explosive, so take care people out there

Thanks for sharing. now I have a use for all the dics I stuffed up

fumes from burning compact discs are toxic and can kill, fact.. look it up. So unless the lamp does not produce any heat at all the cds are likely to heat up

do you screw rods through the all the cds? I dont get how the nuts on the top work

AWESOME idea!!

Just a thought...as someone who CAN follow instructions, and use tools, a step-by-step DIY would be extremely helpful, whether or not I have tons of previous experience using electricity. That's what learning is all about. I would LOVE to make this lamp, but there are several missing steps, based on the pictures. Yes, I could figure it out, but how much wasted time would that be if I happen to guess wrong? And wasted materials? Trial and error is good and all, if you are trying to come up with an idea yourself, but when you're making someone else's concept and design....it's just better to KNOW what they did to get the finished product.

like, for instance, what model lamp did you use?

what did you use as a spacer between cds?

cool, but i unfortunately I dont have all those tools, I wish there were place you could go and freestyle some wood work. I got an A in woods class in high school

you should sell this to a contemporary art gallery for $1000 & call it a day.

you should make a DIY for how to get people who look up things just to leave nasty and mean comments to disappear. one person voices thier concern about wasting time figuring out the missing steps, but how much time were they wasting leaving such a mean comment? if you dont like the way something is done or shown then exit the site and find a new one genius.

cool idea by the way.

This great creativity on your part and I appreciate you sharing this invention with
us. I'm going to to take it to the next level and do some fantastic creations.
The skies the limit!

Nice lamp...

Cool as recycle stuff u don't want to something people want.

This is an excellent idea! Thanks for the post. I love these kinds of hacks.

cool idea

thats averry good idea !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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It would like to know if the COMPACT DISC is pierced. As that it makes this linking.

Good 10;10

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