So, for Kathryn’s Birthday I hunted out a somewhat battered old anglepoise lamp with the intention of refurbishing it for her. It did look somewhat sad when I pulled it from the box…
After a really good clean, a lot of spraying, finding a very similar paint (courtesy of Cass art, who were lovely),
Unfortunately, I didn’t let it harden enough. It turns out that the acrylic spray paint isn’t as hard, as quickly, as the paint I’m used to – so I put in a box thinking it was dry and it led to marking on a couple of areas.
Reassembly was largely the reverse of disassembly.
However, the new springs I got that are meant to be remanufactured equivalents to the originals (which are no longer available) are hopeless. They fail to balance the lamp at all. There was much cursing at this point, because it was getting near to Kathryn’s birthday and I’d no other plan – the lamp came with a spring missing and a non-original spring.
Eventually I ended up adding a spring inside the two external springs and returning to the original main spring (slightly rusty though it is). It still doesn’t balance near as well as it should, but it at least holds in several more common positions.
I’ve not yet come up with a permanent solution though…
