Bright idea
It should come as no surprise to anyone that Joe loves his LED lights. He is a crusader against all things fluorescent, halogen, or incandescent. He will try to upgrade your home’s lighting if you let him. He’ll do it. For fun. He is so committed to the cause that he mass orders LED lights from China on a regular basis.
Although these, he says, were about $30 from IKEA. I’m sure Swedish lights are just as good. I mean, Joe has no trouble disassembling and reassembling things… Anyway, mix his passion for lights with a little foosball, and Joe has a big idea… But he can explain it much better for you:
A few spare LED lights, metal piping, and I’m not even sure what those two pieces on the left come from.
But I know he cut and then welded them to the pipes, because I was instructed to leave the garage or cover my eyes.
And now the fun part. Joe opens up the beloved Foos. Who knew it even opened?
This table gets a lot of play at Joe’s house, and this was the make or break incision.
And then he put all the pieces together.
There were pre-existing holes in the table, which helped spur the idea. The boys informed me those holes once held cigarette ash trays.
Like this:
(photo: libertygames.co.uk)
But thanks to the new stadium lights, we are making that all history. Now they’ll all be manufactured like this:
This whole procedure only took them about 35 minutes.
We have light!
Here’s one more game-time video:
Joe and I lost, best 5 of 7. If you were curious.
Ooh, this lamp is cool. Since I’m now browsing IKEA’s online lighting section (oops), I thought I’d share that. Any fun lighting ideas for Joe? He’s got plenty of LED’s around. Should we add stadium seating?
