Milling Machine Light

Nigel Taylor · 15 Jan 2021

I've just made a light for the milling machine using Angel Eyes, these are the circular LED arrays that are fitted around car headlights. Cheap to buy and powered by a 12V transformer

I made a lightshade and fixed it to the spindle on the Sieg SX2.7

More details of the build etc for the Sieg SX2.7 Angel Eyes - might be useful though for a number of other machine tools

pryere · 15 Jan 2021

Nice job and thanks for the heads up on the angel eyes, very useful and new to me.
That site is also very appealing with great prices.
I cant get the roxy music song out of my head now...

Nigel Taylor · 4 Feb 2021

Just been end milling a piece of 1/4 inch mild steel to make a former for the brass panels on the traction engine.

Had to take this image as the lighting with this circular light is superb - I think the spread in the light is also helped a lot by the 15° shade angle

Sideways · 4 Feb 2021

Great build and ring lights are a photographers favorite for several uses (e.g. macro photography) but is it as blue green as the photos look on my mobile ?

Rorschach · 4 Feb 2021

You can buy a ring shaped selfie light now, USB or mains powered in various sizes, very cheap and all wired and ready to use.

Nigel Taylor · 4 Feb 2021

Sideways said:
Great build and ring lights are a photographers favorite for several uses (e.g. macro photography) but is it as blue green as the photos look on my mobile ?

It actually looks very white in reality. I think this is a white balance issue on the phone