Hi all. I seem to spend ages working on bits and bobs which look good in the work shop, but when I take them out in too day light, I can see a lot of faults 
Is it my eyes just getting old, or should I have another sort of strip light above my work bench? Having said that, not sure what sort I have any way. Any ideas?
Cheers all.
Phil
I don't know how old you are but, yes, you need more light as you get older. The data is hard to distill as people differ a lot, but I'd say as a rule of thumb by the time you retire you should be trying to get about twice the light on your task as you had when half that age.
My workbench now has 4x 25W daylight compact fluorescents in a white box about 2ft above it - probably about 400W tunsten equivalent. I made it to be able to switch just two on, but I never do that - it's nicer with all four.
Bear in mind that even then your lighting level will be measured in 100s of whatever, whereas outdoors is in 1000s, so it is always hard to see the true end result until you take it outside.
As Dave says, daylight lamps are going to be best in virtually all ways, and especially for painting.
