Your fisrt lamps

[Guest cookiemonsterandmerlin]

Well after reading the ton bag thread it got me thinking it was not that long ago that we all lamped with home made setups.

 

Well when I first lamped with a guy for first time he humped a huge car battery with croc clips on super oscar stop light .

 

None of this fancy lightforce lightweight modern stuff.

 

Whats your memories of early lamping

 

ATB Cookie

[chartpolski 24,139]

When you say "not that long ago", when was that, Cookie ?

 

Cheers.

[BEARINATOR 2,871]

Mine was a car spotlight with a home made handle and switch on

[Guest bezza]

I started late seventies with a car headlight and a car battery . No sealed bateries then either. Often used to get burned with acid and ruin my clothes with it. After a trip i would put the battery back in the car to go home. Quite often I'd deplete the charge and have to walk home with the battery to charge it up again. Great times.

[morton 5,368]

Wipac lamp,bean tin taped to the middle and a 2nd hand motorbike battery with more white cells than grey,coats,trousers and bags destroyed with acid and scars on the back of the legs through spillage climbing walls.I can clearly remember lying in a puddle of water one cold winters night,trying to stop the burning on the calfs through spillage,i thought i had a sweat itch from my arse to my ankles,until the soreness and cracked battery alerted me otherwise,happy days.

[Guest cookiemonsterandmerlin]

When you say "not that long ago", when was that, Cookie ?

 

Cheers.

 

Well I am too young to remeber using candles like you char

[troter58 1,711]

car spot light on a broom handle switch 12 volt moterbike battery holes in pants from acid and was a lot fitter first started lamping 1975 good times atb

[chartpolski 24,139]

An old car spotlamp, a bit of broomshank, a door bell pushbutton, some wire, and someone who could put it all together, job done !! LOL !! Worst part was the motor bike battery leaking acid all over your Barbour jacket and jeans !! You only knew about it when it burnt your skin !! LOL !!

 

Cheers.

[Casso 1,261]

Well after reading the ton bag thread it got me thinking it was not that long ago that we all lamped with home made setups.

 

Well when I first lamped with a guy for first time he humped a huge car battery with croc clips on super oscar stop light .

 

None of this fancy lightforce lightweight modern stuff.

 

Whats your memories of early lamping

 

ATB Cookie

A Hella 160 spot lamp motorbike battery, not too bad i suppose but the poxy car had no heating so the lamping wasn't to bad it was getting up the mountain and home again that was the real test of determination,

[chartpolski 24,139]

When you say "not that long ago", when was that, Cookie ?

 

Cheers.

 

Well I am too young to remeber using candles like you char

 

Oil lamp !! Just like I had on my brand new Model T Ford !!

 

Cheers.

[stormyboy 1,352]

Early 70's used Lucas lr sealed beam spotlight. After many ruined jackets, Bolted a seatbelt onto a plastic gallon oil container to carry the battery-no more acid burns! Still use it.

[cocker 2,654]

car spotlight, with glass taken out, home made handle, with a doorbell button/switch,12 volt lead acid motorbike battery in a 5ltr plastic container with the top cut off (kia ora orange juice containers) and a car seat belt for the shoulder strap, crocodile clips to the lamp wires,

 

loads of trousers and coats fell to bits, due to the acid, but it all worked well.

 

caught as much gear in the 70s with that, and a unknown breeding lurcher. as i would now with a £300 lithium and light force outfit

Edited September 22, 2012 by cocker

[paulus 26]

an old chrome spotlamp off an old digger that had an handle already on it, a motorbike battery and a 12volt switch all in/attached to a plywood box with a seatbelt strap the joys of acid burns

[Guest cookiemonsterandmerlin]

Unbeliveable what we use to carry I getting sweet on thinking about lamping the lambourn downs with car battery

 

Cookie

Edited September 22, 2012 by cookiemonsterandmerlin

[darbo 4,776]

a set up by kings .in the 80s.