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I've seen these being used in small lamp factories in China where they assemble the lamps manually.

It's a specialist crimping tool that uses ten spikes to crimp the metal cap onto the plastic lamp bases.

Needless to say there will be custom lamp making videos now.

I've included a link to the seller in the YouTube description.  They have lots of interesting stuff including lamp kits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5N24xvDEkM

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Chinese factory lamp base crimper

This is one of those weird things that you can get from AliExpress. It's one of the crimping tools you sometimes see in Chinese lamp factory videos, where the workers are assembling LED lamps and crimping the lamp base on. This means I can make unique low power lamps with custom internal circuitry, and also fix ones that I've cut apart to reverse engineer. It wasn't a super cheap tool (about £40), but It is kinda intended for mass hand production of lamps on a daily basis, and that means it actually was very cheap for what is a genuine piece of factory-grade equipment. Here's the seller I got it from. They also do various other lamp components:- https://www.aliexpress.com/store/1080054 I can see this featuring in future videos. If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:- http://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm This also keeps the channel independent of YouTube's algorithm quirks, allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty. #ElectronicsCreators

Comments

Mike Hughes

You're going to need a healing mat for putting stuff back together...

Anonymous

Coming soon Big Clives Lighting Solutions

Dave Frederick

Super Cool toy Big Clive! Nice. I remember you mentioning this tool a little while back. It seems it came quickly. So, I'm wondering about the ergonomics of mounting it on a door frame if you have a dozen or more to crimp? I wonder if you could get some of those recessed nuts like on the bottom of an office chair, screwed in at the proper distance on your bench and then just mount the crimper when you need it? Just a thought. You know better how you'll be using it. What fun! It could be a whole Big Clive lamp merch. thing. Lamps done right! LOL

Mike Page

Fantastic use of cams! One of the oldest tricks in the book - 600 BC apparently.

Mike Page

Did anyone else find themselves doing Alan Partridge impressions of the word "SPIIIIKKKESSS" whenever Clive mentioned them?

bigclive

It actually took a while to arrive. Possibly because of sitting in customs for a random time..

Anonymous

Mount it in the WC and crimp away while doing other business... 😄

George Cohn

Looking at that tool, it looks like it is Cad plated. It is very expensive to get Cad plating in the US because the process is very toxic. A lot of automotive parts during the 70's era were Cad plated for corrosion prevention.

William Wallace

Big Clive's lamp base crimping service?

Anonymous

Nice device. Did you try with an Egg cutter ? Apart from the size, it may work.... https://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Eggshell-Scissors-Cutter-Egg-Advanced/dp/B085VMC6JM

Anonymous

Oh I've so gotta get one of them

bigclive

The crimper uses surprising force to push the points through the steel.

Joel Murphy

so nice to see the methods of production. Super simple brute force.

Bill Kerr

Inside the Printed Bulb w/ LEDs thoughts- Radar motion detection board, Small power socket, IR remote, Speaker, and of course, an Ionizer.

Anonymous

I know selling the electrics kits aren’t a viable business in this day and age, but I would pay good money for a hand made Big Clive lamp.