Bucket Light

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Bucket Light

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November, 2005

While out camping last month, we saw something that I found quite remarkable and worthy of a try. A camper had used a 5 gallon bucket to make a light for his camp site. Found that this lamp yielded a very soft, pleasing light and decided that I needed to try it for myself. Though this may not be new, I

[Starryart]

Hey that is pretty cool indeed! I have seen these but did not know how they were made exactly. It makes a rather indirect soft light doesn't it? I hate glaring bright lights. Thanks for sharing

[AustinBoston]

Me too.  I'm a specialist in too much glare.  This would be perfect.  Thanks.

One word of caution - keep the wattage down, or put some holes in the cover.  If you put a 100 watt bulb in there you would soon have smoking plastic.  Medium wattages would take longer.  I'd stick to a 40 or at most 60 watt bulb.

Austin