Flashlight light bulb base (incandescent)

thingiverse

You picked up your [Moon Lamp](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2771919) from the front page, and it was clear that your printer needed a workout. Twelve hours later you were holding a shiny new moon and feeling quite proud of yourself. But then you realized you had to light up this thing. You pulled out an LED, but it lit up only the top of the moon like a bald spot under stage lights. It was too directional. You needed a better solution right away. Sure, Amazon had options, but that would take days and you'd already spent forever printing this thing. This kicked off a search through your junk drawer for something to provide nice omnidirectional light. As fate would have it, you had a couple of spare flashlight bulbs left over from when flashlights were actually incandescent. After some painful mental math determining how long it's been since that drawer was cleaned out, you slapped together a couple of AAAs and tested one of the bulbs. It still worked (surprisingly), but now there was a new problem - you were stuck holding the wires to that bulb, which wasn't a good long-term solution. Obviously, you couldn't just tape wires to the side of the bulb like some caveman. You have a 3D printer. Some things just aren't done that way. So out came your design software, and after a few iterations, you had something that would hold the moon lamp in place. It held the wires without rotating and provided a nice soothing light. Does this sound familiar? No? Well, regardless, if you need a holder for a flashlight bulb (assuming you can even find one anymore), this will do the trick. No extra soldering or glue is required. The tolerances are close enough that the bulb will hold the wires in place by itself. Just run the negative wire to the side of the bulb and the positive wire to the bottom of the bulb.