Wow, expensive lighting!

[Graham.]

McDonald's restaurants aren't snobby. They're not even restaurants.

[Commander Kinsey]

Who pays for this?! $2,600 for a light, and you have to wait 2 months to get it!

good at building stuff like this? Go undercut them!

[Hawk]

The very wealthy pay for it because it's modern art and they need to uphold their snobby image.

[The Nomad]

I see it is made from solid brass tube that is magnetically held in place

Darned good tricks those :-)

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[Commander Kinsey]

Until it gets bumped and falls off.

[Commander Kinsey]

But you can't have that image for 2 months apparently.

And I'm sure somebody else has made something that plain and simple for a lot less. If I wanted to be snobby, I'd get a fancy looking light, not a plain geometric shape made out of simple tubes.

[Commander Kinsey]

McDonalds has lighting costing thousands per unit? I doubt it.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

Could be the modern equivelent of the folk that used to buy illuminated flooring and glitter balls for they homes to make them look like discos. Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

Yes the laws of physics being broken obviously is no barrier to the designers. Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

More likely solid steel with a golden plating then as I say I don't believe they have changed physics to make it. Brian

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

Some time ago, when lasers seemed to be everywhere, you used to be able to get a kind of 3d column light which as you walked around it the hologram of a young lady disrobed. It was all in a peculiar greeny blue colour. I guess it goes under the name of expensive novelty, and sex sells as we all know. Probably seen as very tacky today though. I often wondered how it was done. Brian

[Commander Kinsey]

I tried to search for that, but search engines don't seem to work right. If I search using three key words, why do I get results with only two of those words? One of the words I used was obviously "hologram", but I just got links to news articles of people stripping naked at an airport.

I did f> Some time ago, when lasers seemed to be everywhere, you used to be able to

[Commander Kinsey]

I didn't notice "brass" and "magnet" there! Still, a magnet will be strong enough to hold the light in place. But bump it with something and it will fall.

[Commander Kinsey]

[Commander Kinsey]

I bought a non-illuminated glitter ball to amuse the parrots in the garden. It was destroyed very quickly.

[Clare Snyder]

Solid brass tubing with LEDs in them and magnets stuck into each end. Not much of a stretch - you haven't seen vinyl shower curtains with magnets in the corners to make them stick to the cast iron tub??

[Commander Kinsey]

So some form of magic brass that lets light through?

Holy shit, people still use iron tubs? Two of us tried to get one of those out of a second floor bathroom once, we had to use industrial strength rope and slide it slowly down the stairs. Luckily it wasn't a split staircase with a corner.

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[Cindy Hamilton]

Sure, people still use iron tubs. People pay big money to have refurbished cast-iron clawfoot tubs.

We took a cast iron tub out of our bathroom four years ago. Busted it up with a sledge hammer and took it out in pieces. Ours was vintage 1947, so not a clawfoot.

Cindy Hamilton

[Commander Kinsey]

I gave mine away to someone who wanted to use it as a garden planter, then was told by a friend they're worth a fortune, even just for scrap metal!

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[Clare Snyder]

SLOTTED brass tubes

Even a lot of "current" tubs are cast iron, not stamped steel. Really THIN cast, covered with porcelain enamel. The last one I removed went out in pieces after scoring it with an angle grinder and smacking it with a sledge hammer