Our home we built at Pusch Ridge, close to Tucson, had quite a climb up from the guest parking with many steps to negotiate. To help evening visitors we installed light fixtures that would make the trip up the many steps easier and safer. In keeping with our pattern of adding our own personal touches I acquired some heavy 12 inch steel pipe and fabricated a number of the fixtures as seen in the photo above. I used a gas cutting torch to make the vertical slits around the circumference of the pipe to let the light shine out. The top was closed with a steel plate, pierced with more torch cuts. This plate could be lifted off the brackets to gain access to change light bulbs. A disk of 1/8 inch clear plastic was placed on the brackets under the steel plate to keep most of the rain out. A buried electrical line with weather proof junction boxes emerging inside the pipe finished the job when connected to a switched outlet. As far as a finish for the fixtures, the action of natures elements took care of that.
*More detail on my art can be found at my website <www.apatchablue.com>
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