New lead weight for cheap lamp
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This very cheaply made lamp came with an XTronix soldering station.

The lamp was a "Free" promotion. The reason it was listed as free is because the weight in the base, which was made up of ground up glass and trash glued together, was not heavy enough to keep the lamp from tipping over.

So I made a mold of the weight using plaster, and cast a new lead weight of about 5 pounds, which worked much better than the original 1 pound weight.

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