Fulton Woodworking Tools 1294 Magnetic Work Light

We use the Fulton Woodworking Tools 1294 Magnetic Work Light on our 16' bandsaw for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Our bandsaw is a bit dated, and has a little vibration to it. The magnet holds strong all day long and the light does not move. It helps eliminate the shadows at the blade, caused by the regular shop lighting. Item arrived quicker than expected, and was packaged well.

Fair quality, the magnet needs to be stronger as it tends to slip when the light is extended to its max range.

The magnate is just serviceable. Not hopeless. I had a comparable one I teamed with it and it’s very good. They should bite the bullit and upgrade the magnet. Otherwise it’s a good value.

What a weak piece of junk!! Quality control is not good. Got it today and opened up the package to see a big crack in the plastic arm. This thing is mainly made entirely of plastic. I understand you can’t expect much for 20 bucks but come on. I stuck it to the side of my drill press and the magnet immediately came off of the metal washer it was glued on. You’re gonna have to reattach the magnet with some better glue then what they apparently used.I hate returning stuff so I had to make work with what wasn’t already broken. I removed the broken piece and unusable parts and fabricated a metal bracket of my own.This work light styling and design is on point, but it falls way short in the quality of materials used to be in any garage/shop setting.If the flexible joints were made of metal, and magnet was a bit stronger, then it would be an awesome work light! It’s a shame.

This is my second light. It is well made and the switch can be replaced if it goes bad. For the price it is a good light. The magnet can bestronger but all the lights that I have of this type have weak magnets.

This is a great little shop light, and I would give it five stars, but..... I have one of these that is about 15 years old. It still works great and I use it every day. The new one has exactly the same base as the old one, but the shade is a little smaller and does not project as far. This is an issue as I want any bulb in there to be shielded to reduce glare. Because of the thin metal of the shade, I run a CFL bulb so its not too hot to handle. (An incandescent 60W bulb will really get these cooking...) I will eventually switch to LEDs once the CFLs are used up in a few years. Until then, the big bulbs go in the old light fixture and the smaller CFLs go in the new one. Its a minor point, but I find it irritating that such a nice fixture design was revised to presumably save a few cents. On an incidental note, the shade came dented from how it was folded to be packaged. This has nothing to do with the rating being four stars, but some people might feel otherwise.

works well

The hoods are not ventilated with holes in the back and are no where near large enough in depth to completely surround a large CFL bulb. The magnets are strong enough and work well. The articulation is fine. The plastic - some sort of styrene - is rather brittle compared to a nylon resin and could break if it hits the concrete hard enough. These work really well when used with an electrical box cover plate screwed into the ceiling. I have several plates ( $.50 each at the Borg) around the garage for this purpose. Just don't knock a long piece of wood into the lamp because the bulb sticks out a lot and will be the first thing hit.