Thursday, March 9, 2017

Dining Room table Light Upgrade

This is the Vonn VMC31710AL Modern Two-Tier LED Chandelier Lighting with Adjustable Hanging Light, Silver. Nice light but I also wanted a drop power cable so I repackaged the light's power supplies with a Electrolux vacuum cleaner power reel. Gives me power at the table and can be retracted when not in use. Now I can walk around all sides of the table without tripping over a cable. So I decided to use pine to match the baseboards with the three grooves.



 Guts of the box. four light power supplies, one power reel, one fan/light controller, and four dog food cans to contain the suspension wires.





 I had to weld up a fixture to suspend the box the correct distance and provide a way to rotate the box in case we want to rotate the table.


 With power cable retracted to the lights. the cable can retract all the way to the box.

Cable in use at the table


Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Clearing Snow with the Polar Express

The plow was delivered the other day and started removing some of the snow. We got about two feet total and a good bit has already melted and refroze so getting down to pavement is a bit difficult. Also I didn't have the sliders adjusted low enough in these shots.