Barn Find Oil Lamp - Perfect Restoration

It was pretty much exactly three weeks ago when I last visited my friend that works at the recycling station. He always takes interesting antique items at home and sells them on eBay, so he always has very cool old and rusty stuff to restore for me. Right at the moment when I first saw this oil lamp I knew I want to make a restoration video about it. He told me that must be a barn find because of the dirt that did stick to it. Not only because I liked its design, it was also very rusty and dirty and the glass was not broken. Well, it turned out later that it was indeed broken, but the crack was not visible and I realized that myself just after cleaning with the parts washer. I was shocked when I saw the huge crack, I wasn’t even sure if I made it when disassembling or cleaning. So I checked all the recordings right away to see if the crack was already there before and I was quite reliefed when I saw that I didn’t do it. I did a lot of research if it would be possible to repair it, unfortunately it’s impossible to fix a crack in glass. Due to safety resons it’s better to replace a cracked glass anyway, but I didn’t had a replacement part nor could I make a new one. As I’m only using this oil lamp as a decoration piece I decided to try my best in secure the crack to not get bigger and try to hide it as good as possible. I think I achieved a nice result with that. The oil lamp was zinc plated originally and didn’t had any paint on it. I can’t zinc plate and didn’t like the idea of such a rough finish. So I decided to paint it, at first I wanted to make it all black. I didn’t really liked the idea of having it all black and I wanted to give it a second color to play with. After long thinking I remembered „Eleanor“ from the movie „gone in 60 seconds“. I really like that grey metallic look and it fits perfectly with black in my opinion. To give it a nice touch I painted the raised letters red. I really like how this little Eleanor oil lamp turned out. I think the grey metallic body fits perfectly with the glossy black parts and the red letters „NEOLUX“ gives it a nice touch. With the nice repaired and cleaned glass this item turned into a very nice decoration piece and it makes me happy that I can show it off for display in my appartement from now on. I hope you like my work and the video. Huge thank you to all of my Patreon and PayPal supporters and specially to: Markus Meier Afreeflyingsoul Gregory Adel AlSaffar Alan Hanson Amanda Taylor, Esq Andreswara Hermawan Andrew Phillips Arni Bjorgvinsson audi4444player Courtney Maleport Cristian Zorilla Dan Williams David Barker Dre Gilley Hunter R. JD Smith Jessica Alexander Jonas Richartz LVE Martin Rønnow Klarlund Mellissa Marcus Muzaffer Aksoy Nick Cannon Paul Ambry Paul Mampilly Shikidixi Trevor Kam TRG Restoration Vince Valenti Yale Baker 웅록 윤 Timestamps: 00:00 preview 00:46 disassembling 02:43 showing all the parts 02:59 cleaning the parts with the parts washer 03:25 sandblasting 04:04 restoring the main part 05:58 restoring the glass holder 06:43 restoring the lever for the glass holder 07:19 showing the restored lever conection for the glass holder 07:36 applying filler 07:58 sanding all the filler 08:22 painting all the parts 09:15 painting the raised letters red 09:28 showing all the painted parts 09:48 making new rivets on the lathe 10:39 restoring the glass and repairing the crack 12:05 restoring the wick holder 13:54 cleaning the wick 14:22 making a new gasket for the cap 14:39 showing all the parts before reassembling 14:48 reassembling 16:42 showing the finished restoration 17:26 final test Time and costs of this restoration: I was working on this project for 2 weeks $30 oil lamp $20 2k primer $30 water-based coat metallic grey $25 2k clear coat $25 2k coat jet black (RAL9005) $32 2k super glue My camera: Panasonic HC-V180 If you have any questions about the process, machines i’m using or other stuff, just ask me in the comments. I read them all and i try to reply as soon as possible. Sorry for my bad english, it’s not my language. I try my best to improve my technical english. Subscribe for more of my content. I’m uploading videos about mechanical stuff, as new creations and buildings and also restorations. Thank you for watching :-) „I make a new one“ T-Shirts: My Main Channel: My Second Channel: My Patreon Page: