Aliens Shoulder Lamp - Found Part and 3d Print

[dproc]

Inspired to add to my Aliens paraphernalia. Whilst researching I lucked upon a near new Reflecta 3002 light. I never find 'found parts' (added difficulty in Australia) so was thrilled to find the real McCoy! No chance of any of the other real parts so ill 3D print those as I go. Even my entry FDM does a great job on the details, I think. Work in progress but coming along nicely. Just thrilled about the Reflecta. Will follow up later.

 

[dproc]

Update... Made the aluminium mounting clip and cut the extra heat vent panel from the back of old bulb housing as you are supposed to do. I'm making a better bulb holder. Undercoated and painted the main parts. Test fit now and will then wire up and weather shortly.

 

[dproc]

and done!... Did the wiring. I made the blue / brown wires just exposed too. As per an original one. Working with a found item was a real mini insight into the mind of the original builders. Something I hadn't had before and was a real joy! I could just imagine chopping these things up and banging them out for production. Plus 80's stuff was built like a tank! I forgot how it was actually meant to last. I made an 8x AA battery holder (who has these laying around?) and screwed it all together. Did some weathering to match my other Aliens stuff and all done!

 

[darthsideous]

Congratulations on the epic find! Great collection so far. I’ve working on the same project but it will take me some time.

 

[Metalalien]

she's a beaut!

 

[septic]

Turned out great!

If you ever feel you want to upgrade with some metal parts (that are very cheap [p.s. I'm *not* selling anything]), you might wanna check out these builds (with links to other parts) -

Aliens Legacy - Metal shoulder lamp arm
Aliens Legacy - The Shoulder Lamp missing link

 

[dproc]

I spent way more than I should on the lamp or I would investigate these Bookmarked however! I've been looking for other items too... there should be a thread for always available items. Other than junkyard and project runs. Though there is some legality of it being a "shop" I gather? I'm just bad at searching through forums.

 

[septic]

From memory, these are like sub $20 bits, but yup, fully understand re "budget overruns"

Re parts list, yes, that would be great, but it would suffer for stale/dead links over time.

 

[OdiWan72]

Great work!

If anybody is interested...I have a spare lamp FS. PM me if interested (located in Europe)

 

[joberg]

Excellent work for sure

 

[PAULH]

Update... Made the aluminium mounting clip and cut the extra heat vent panel from the back of old bulb housing as you are supposed to do. I'm making a better bulb holder. Undercoated and painted the main parts. Test fit now and will then wire up and weather shortly.

Great project and I'm doing the same. I've got the shoulder lamp kit from Chef's Creations and a real Reflecta 3002. Could you expand on what this means: "cut the extra heat vent panel from the back of old bulb housing as you are supposed to do". Couldn't quite figure it out. Thanks !

 

[dproc]

Great project and I'm doing the same. I've got the shoulder lamp kit from Chef's Creations and a real Reflecta 3002. Could you expand on what this means: "cut the extra heat vent panel from the back of old bulb housing as you are supposed to do". Couldn't quite figure it out. Thanks !

Glad you are having fun! It's a fun build. Reference the photo... the extra panel (in the red box) is cut from the back of the black metal box part (other red outline). I used a hacksaw to rough cut it off, then tin snips to trim closer and then carefully filed rough edges. Its tricky so go slow so as to not bend it or cut off too much. Scribing a line around it can help. Cheers!

 

[PAULH]

Glad you are having fun! It's a fun build. Reference the photo... the extra panel (in the red box) is cut from the back of the black metal box part (other red outline). I used a hacksaw to rough cut it off, then tin snips to trim closer and then carefully filed rough edges. Its tricky so go slow so as to not bend it or cut off too much. Scribing a line around it can help. Cheers!

Thanks very much for that. Got it !