Home made work light

**crovello** · 01-05-2019, 04:15 PM

I saw these LED work lights at Ocean State Job lot for $15. They are 40 watts, 5000K and 4100 lumens. I bought three of them. I thought I could make a work light for my garage for short money with these. I made a mobile base on casters so I could roll it around my garage. I used some pipe I had kicking around so I can adjust the height of it. It is super bright. Below are a few pictures.

I have read the thread on how to upload pictures a dozen times but my screen does not look like the screen shots Mike has posted. I think you can just click on the pictures to enlarge them. If someone could explain how to upload from my computer, I will do better next time.

Next time I am set up to make drawers in my shop, I will make four of them for this base. I used pre-finished maple plywood and put casters on the bottom.

I can spin it around depending on where I am working.

I can adjust the height high so I have good light when working on the top of my cars.

Dave

**tuscarora dave** · 01-05-2019, 04:28 PM

Lighting for doing interiors has always been the missing link in my life. It's cool that you can turn that sideways and adjust it up and down. I want something as bright as the sun that inverts like that but pulls down from an out of the way suspended location in my shop. I'm no Rube Goldburg though so I'v never engineered it. Nice job.

**PaulMys** · 01-05-2019, 04:29 PM

Nice work, my man!

**crovello** · 01-05-2019, 04:41 PM

Dave, I agree it would be nice to have something that can be pulled down from the ceiling but I wanted to make sure I could direct the light where I wanted it.

I can roll it out of the way when not in use and I now have four storage drawers and a power strip as part of the work light.

Dave

**tuscarora dave** · 01-05-2019, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by crovello

Dave, I agree it would be nice to have something that can be pulled down from the ceiling but I wanted to make sure I could direct the light where I wanted it.

I can roll it out of the way when not in use and I now have four storage drawers and a power strip as part of the work light.

Dave

I dig it man. My issue is trying to run a service/repair/fabrication/welding/detailing/rust repair business out of a 1 bay garage. There's just no room left for anything. Like Mike Phillips says, Find something that works and use it often!!