What are the hanging lights called??? - General Tiki

P Polynesiac Tiki Socialite San Pedro, CA Joined: Jan 29, 2004 Posts: 2099	P Polynesiac Posted posted on Thu, Feb 21, 2008 2:27 PM Great idea with the gazing balls! they look really cool and funky too! (in a good way) The "stopper" can also be purchased from home depot as an all inclusive "bottle light" kit. It comes with wiring, plug, stopper and socket and all the hardware that goes with it. It's for turning bottles into lights. The socket that comes with the set is a standard sized socket. The light setup I use in my floats looks very similar to yours. To decrease the size of the socket for your gazing ball lights you can use candelobra sockets (the skinny ones) and hunt down the 15w bulbs at home depot. Less light and the 15w DO NOT get hot at all. Don't use x-mas tree "big light" bulbs, those things get super hot (even though they are only 4watts) IF you can, I always recommend the IKEA compact flourescent colored bulbs - no heat and they last forever. By the way...the netting you tied for your floats is awesome! nice job! FZ - thanks for posting that picture, I had no idea how cool your tiki bar is!!!! I'm honored to have a float hanging there! You da bomb!!! Murph - thanks for the comps. I try and make stuff that I would buy myself, and I'm real picky about what I spend my money on and how it looks

Great idea with the gazing balls! they look really cool and funky too! (in a good way) The "stopper" can also be purchased from home depot as an all inclusive "bottle light" kit. It comes with wiring, plug, stopper and socket and all the hardware that goes with it. It's for turning bottles into lights. The socket that comes with the set is a standard sized socket. The light setup I use in my floats looks very similar to yours.

To decrease the size of the socket for your gazing ball lights you can use candelobra sockets (the skinny ones) and hunt down the 15w bulbs at home depot. Less light and the 15w DO NOT get hot at all. Don't use x-mas tree "big light" bulbs, those things get super hot (even though they are only 4watts) IF you can, I always recommend the IKEA compact flourescent colored bulbs - no heat and they last forever.

By the way...the netting you tied for your floats is awesome! nice job!

FZ - thanks for posting that picture, I had no idea how cool your tiki bar is!!!! I'm honored to have a float hanging there! You da bomb!!!
Murph - thanks for the comps. I try and make stuff that I would buy myself, and I'm real picky about what I spend my money on and how it looks

Post #362725 by Polynesiac on Thu, Feb 21, 2008 2:27 PM