Portable Light Stand Made From Car Spare Tire

Portable Light Stand Made From Car Spare Tire FARM HOME Cars 22-4-39 Leonard Seltzer, Manhattan, Ill., made a low-cost portable light stand using a spare donut-type car tire as the base. The tire supports an 8-ft. length of 1 3/4-in. outside diameter electrical conduit pipe equipped with a pair of 90-watt flood lamps on top. Wire runs from the flood lamps in-side the conduit and down to a switch and electric plug-in box mounted at the bottom of the conduit. To move the unit, Seltzer simply grabs the light pole and rolls the tire along on the ground. To make the base he cut a round 5/8-in. thick steel plate, drilled three holes into it to match three of the five wheel rim holes, and bolted the plate to the rim. He welded the bottom end of a 22-in. length of 2-in. wide channel iron to the plate. The electrical conduit fits inside the channel iron and is secured by a pair of U clamps. The switchbox is secured to the back side of the channel iron and between the clamps. To mount the flood lamps he put one end of the conduit in a vise, crunched it flat, then bolted a hex electrical box on top of it. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Leonard Seltzer, 16040 W. Elwood-Manhattan Rd., Manhattan, Ill. 60442 (ph 815 478-3578). '

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