Some time ago my 1990 Miata died the short-nose crankshaft death! Fortunately, Bobby Bowser of Accutech Auto was still in business,  replaced it and my car has been going strong since!  (I now have over 216,000 miles on the odometer.)

I saved the old crank and  finally figured out a neat way to use it! I made a table lamp. Two photo's posted. The back of the lamp shows how I routed the wiring (classic cloth covered twisted 18 gauge lamp cord). I drilled out four oil passageways to ¼", inserted wooden dowel pins and then used small eye screws as wire guides. I am currently using an old plain lamp shade, but plan to replace that! (After completing negotiations with my better half, lol.  If any of you are artistic and would like to discuss painting my lampshade, please give me a call!  And of course, if anyone has an old Miata crankshaft they want to get rid of .... You know who to call!)

To date the total cost less than $20.

Zoom zoom!

Bob Miller
Red '90