Iconic French Wonder Lamp - Restoration

In this video i’m restoring an old french Wonder lamp. My good friend TysyTube Restoration bought this Wonder lamp on a flea market in Paris. He asked me if I want to restore it and obviously I said yes. He already restored two of them himself, I link his videos and channel below. These Wonder lamps are very well known in France, they’re used on railroads mostly as far as I know. I first wanted to paint the inside of the lamp white, but as soon as I saw the amazing look of the sandblasted aluminium I decided to go with that. I just had to remove the casting marks first and then sandblast it again. I choose yellow for the lamp with black letters and black for the handle and the switch. It had a few brass parts that were deformed to keep them in place, which I had to grind away to loosen them. I made all these parts new on the lathe and mill and gave them a nice mirror polish. I deformed them again when reassembling, except for the threads. It was quite a challenge to organize the battery, as they’re not produced anymore today. MC-51 rust remover did an amazing job on the very rusty steel parts, a bit of sanding and polishing and they appeared like brand new. Same goes for the plastic parts, I sanded them wet with 400 grit and polished them with car wax. I really like how this lamp turned out, even that the colours are not original, the yellow goes very nice with the black and polished parts in my opinion. As I mentioned above, I’ll keep this lamp for myself for display. I hope you like my work and the video. Huge thank you to all of my Patreon and PayPal supporters and specially to: Lewis Mocker Uwe Keim Jonathan McGhie Anthony Archer William V. Afreeflyingsoul Micky McKay Alan Hanson Alex Roussos Gregory Joan Casanovas John Romero Jonathan Heckerman Paul Mampilly SA Graver Vince Valenti Zachary Grimes Timestamps: 00:00 preview 00:33 disassembling 02:44 showing all the parts 02:59 removing the old paint with paint striper 03:40 sandblasting 04:11 restoring the aluminium case 05:14 restoring the aluminium back plate 06:03 sandblasting the inside again 06:21 polishing the brass part of the aluminium case 06:35 restoring the switch 07:01 restoring the handle 07:28 applying two component filler before painting 08:06 applying two component primer 08:18 wet sanding the primer 08:30 applying two component yellow coat (signal yellow RAL1003) 08:36 applying two component black coat (jet black RAL9005) 08:42 painting the letters black 09:00 making new brass pins on the lathe 09:48 making new brass bolts on the lathe and mill 11:15 restoring the two knurled brass knobs 12:09 rempoving rust with MC-51 on the steel parts and polish them 12:47 making two new brass pins for the handle on the lathe 13:36 restoring the shaft from the switch 14:03 showing the cleaned glass 14:07 making a new rubber gasket for the glass 14:26 restoring the front reflector 14:37 restoring the small plastic part from the front reflector 14:52 restoring the red reflector 15:09 restoring the aluminium frame from the red reflector 15:24 polishing the nickel plated sheet 15:35 showing the other polished copper parts from the switch 15:40 showing the new battery 15:46 showing all the parts before reassembling 16:03 reassembling 19:00 showing the finished lamp 19:30 final test Time and costs of this restoration: I was working on this project over 2,5 weeks Wonder lamp was a presant from TysyTube :-) Thank you $35 Battery $20 two component primer $20 two component yellow coat (RAL1003) $20 two component black coat (RAL9005) $5 rivets $5 bulbs My camera: Panasonic HC-V180 TysyTube Restoration channel: TysyTube’s Wonder lamp restoration: 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 :-) My Patreon Page: