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Sup, I have a chord with 400 of these and I want to make a lamp out of it, any ideas?

>> No.84226

Use LEDs instead.

>> No.84227

look up "monkey fist knot"

>> No.84234

>>84227
HOUSEFIRE IMMENENT

>> No.84242

I have a similar (not really) project. I have 2 strings of 300 LED lights. I want one 600 to be strung outside. Can I cut them open and solder them end-to-end without burning down my house?

>> No.84389

1) Buy vase.
2) Stuff lights in vase.
3) Put vase on table.

>> No.84391
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84391

>> No.84410

>>84391
Thats awesome!

>> No.84418

>>84391
Wouldn't that get, like, extremely hot, though?

>> No.84424

>>84418

yup

>> No.84426

I could see this being really pretty using a multicolored line or all blue or something. But, yeah, fire hazard. I don't think I'd do it.

>> No.84427

>>84418

some of those smaller sized bulb strings barely get warm.

>> No.84435

>>84427
As a string, no. But stuff it all into a vase, and that heat will build up quick. Maybe not hot enough to catch fire. Who knows. Maybe it'd work for those little LED lights they've started selling these past few years.

>> No.84437
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84437

Wine bottle lamps!

>> No.84441

>>84435

LEDs get hot as fuck too. So hot in fact that all the medium base ones I've seen have massive aluminium heatsinks. I'd wager those little string ones stuffed into something would still get hot as fuck.

No harm in trying it though.

>> No.84448

If you are worried about heat build up in a bottle, just fill it with mineral oil. It is non conductive and is used as a coolant in many electrical components.

>> No.84456

>>84437
oh fuck thats nice, but how do they get the cord out of the bottle to connect it to the grid?

>> No.84462

>>84456
drill a hole?

>> No.84466

>>84462
fuck.

>> No.84488

>>84448

All that will do is increase the thermal inertia, it's not going make it dissipate heat any faster.

>> No.84498
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84498

>>84466
You could cut off the bottle of the bottom using an etching cream or some trick using string and hot/cold water? Dangerous but can be done without a drill!

>> No.84535

If you're going to do it, I'd avoid putting all of the lights into a small area, especially one subject to heat buildup. We cut out wooden letters, in the first house I lived in when we moved to Florida. It was about 8x10 on the wall, it read "Rancho de las Estellas," lit the entire living room. Wish I had a picture of it...

>> No.86093

*le bump*

>> No.86104

It's cord, not chord.

>> No.86110

yeah you have to use led's. i tried a bottle lamp with less than 20 of the regular ones and it got hot enough to melt all the plastic within a few minutes. any longer and they would have shorted and blown the breaker or caught fire.

>> No.86125

>>86093
>*le bump*
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