How to make a lamp out of a barricade light

I'm going to teach you how to make a cool lamp out of one of those yellow lights you see on the top of a barricade on the side of the road.

Step 1 Getting The Materials

What you need:
1-A Barricade light.... I "found" mine on a construction site.
2-An old lamp with one of those clicky things to turn it on.
3-Other tools

Comments

[burn317]

If you take apart those giant batteries inside of there, they are full of other sized batteries, either AA or C cells I believe. http://www.instructables.com/id/Small-6-Volt-Safe/

[west49rules]

These little things are a bugger to get off of the barakade =P

[rada194]

Tell me about it
it took me well over 45 min to get it off until i realized that all you have to do is unscrew the bolt. I was so mad

[M4industries]

The same thing happened to me with my bike. I tried to remove the forkto make it into a chopper, but couldnt figure out how. Then I googled itand felt so stupid.

[MACKattacksnipe]

ya i live by a abandon construction site and there is all kinds of crap heck i get those and i found a few traffic lights some wheels and a brand new Mig welder still in the plastic packaging it was a drag to get out of the trash pile thank god i did they came the next day and picked it all up shame i was still adventuring through it

[M4industries]

I dont think they would have trashed the MIG. Lucky find. Worst casescenario, they look for the stuff you scavenged and convict you of pettytheft. But all in the name of DIY, you rescued a great tool from thetrash and I commend you. Kudos!

[DasBus]

 Thanks for this instructable!  I have one of these lights with dead batteries.  Now I know what to do with it.

[Zergling_pack]

So before anyone decides to go off and steal one.<br /> http://store.pksafety.net/barricade-light.html<br />You can buy them at a lot of places. And @ falcotheimpaler, even if it is dead and sitting in the gutter near a construction site it doesn't mean you can take them. I mean is it yours? I mean you wouldn't want me going to your house and be like look at all this stuff on your lawn guess you don't want it, i mean why else would it be outside?

[rada194]

the construction site was abandoned for years and it was mangled in the trash

[iectyx3c]

You want us to believe that you are a common vandal and a petty thief; when really you just bought this from a used construction supply company. Right?

[rada194]

yeah....... lets go with that

[aesopiankitty]

this is an instructable
don't be ridiculous

[falcotheimpaler]

To be honest, they are really easy to come by. It's not really stealing if their batteries are dead and the poor things are lying in the gutter.

[AndyGadget]

I remember cycling back from the pub many, many years ago with one of these flashing under my jumper. I hadn't worked out how to turn it off at the time.

[lemonie]

Comment below. A couple ended up flashing to the bottom of the canal... L

[lemonie]

I was with someone who stole a whole works-load of these. Shopping-cart, then a return trip with rucksacks... They lived in his loft. (Imagine that) L