Light for light checking

Mudshark

Just wondering what everyone is using for lightchecking.

Have been using the simple old trouble light with guard removed with bare bulb. used 100 watt bulbs as well as 60 watt bulbs (whatever is cheap as they do break eventually) Seen other rigs with clamp to attach to bench or whatever and lights with shields on one side.

Welcome a discussion here as I don't mind investing in a better light as mine is paid for and an upgrade shouldn't break my tool budget.

Saul_Surfaces

I use a fluorescent trouble light. Find it stands up a lot better than the incandescent bulb. Easier to get the dust off too.

Bevelation

Bare 100 watter for me. Only problem for me is I can't manage the cord very well doing tops sometimes and it slows me down.

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Kiwiman

500 watter for me, if you don't mind third degree burns and temporary blindness from time to time.

cazna

Using 150 watt, easy on the eyes but it only covers a smaller area at a time. Sometimes i go back at night with the light to check over things. It works very well and i can pick up everything. Its one of those lights on a stand with the long skinny bulb, i just carry it around, works great.

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Personally I use a Bud Light

Capt-sheetrock

Thanks for keeping it real,,,, I wonder somtimes about these new guys,,,,, KIDS TODAY !!!

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Yea Capt sometimes I dont know whether to scratch my watch or wind my head

DSJOHN

Do you guys find it hard in the morning. JOHN,,,,,, [getting out of bed]

Capt-sheetrock

Naw, but I did tell my sweetie (after seeing the doc) that If I had an erection that lasted more than 4 hours, I wasn't the one that was gonna need to contact a doctor,,,

That count???

DSJOHN

You funny bastard,,,,, JOHN

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[quote=DSJOHN;12015]Do you guys find it hard in the morning. JOHN,,,,,,

Hopefully...if not I must be dead

Kiwiman

I thought an erection was something the Japanese held when voting in a new government.

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AHHH...Happy Hour only 2 hour...you go now

DSJOHN

that was said after the third scorpion bowl? JOHN

Mudshark

So do you still see the scratches on drywall the same with the fluorescent? We know it to be tougher.

Saul_Surfaces

Its easy to wipe the dust off the plastic lens on the fluorescent, which keeps the light consistent. I found the incandescent would get dust covered over time and continually dimmer until I could wipe it off. And I get tired of breaking bulbs. In any case my customers end up happy.

silverstilts

I have a couple of 400 watt metal halide wobble lights that work good and light up a very large area, but when sanding the best I have found was just a plain 300 watt clear bulb that i screw into a treble light without the aluminum guard just the socket fastened to a make shift handle. I use to use an old light stand that came out of a doctors office that had a base with the adjustable height pole and flexible conduit on the top worked really well. A good 300 watt incandescent bulb will show any imperfections when held up against wall or ceiling. Anything less than that is not bright enough. Back to the wobble light pretty much indestructible depending on where you buy the bulbs anywheres from 28 to 65 bucks but they will last for years unless they take a direct hit hard from something.

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2buckcanuck

Super Bright Rechargeable 60+9 LED Cordless Work Light last for 4 hours

Mudstar

I don't use a light and have no issues. Proper application and sanding is all it takes.

Why you all using a light?

Someone skipping something along the way here?

Get back to work you slackers!