I have seen some threads on DoItYourself diffusers and camping lights on the internet but not this one?
When I was doing some work under my car I got this idea of an easy way of making a worklight. Torch will not get dirty,but you lose some light.Also chose flashlights,so the icecream box do not melt.
That's not an ice cream box! It says Perunasalaatti on the cover. For the Finnish-impaired BLF:ers that would translate as potato salad. Or do they make potato salad-flavoured ice cream?
But yeah, good DIY'ing. I have heard (on this forum) that table tennis balls should make a decent makeshift diffuser too.
Good easy mod, I like the "keeping the light clean"-part. I sometimes use bottlecaps that fit over the head of a light. But most times when I am on need of pure flood, I use Scotch tape or some similar translucent but not shiny tape of the "invisible" variety. No new idea by any means, but works surprisingly well. Stuck to itself or onto a piece of translucent flat plastic (like, say, a piece of a solarforce flashlight blister pack ) and cut to size, preferable for a light with screw-on bezel like the solarforce (which you took out of its blister pack to cut that to bits), and you got a perfectly servicable, easy to install, yet almost completely free diffusor lens. It doesn't do 360° illumination like the potato salad ice cream box though
A simple one pound container of sour cream or any 1lb transleucent container works .. Take the top and cut an X in the center bigger than the head of the flashlight and simple stick your light into it and you have a makeshift lamp ..easy as pie .
I have astory about keepingthingsclean. Mysistergotintoa discussionaboutall thestuffthatwere on theirrespectiveSwissknives.The oneshehad was the only one thatsmelledperfume.Not brake fluid or motor oil.