DIY worklight

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.

Your comments and input,please.

Lennart

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 .

HID45,It is a form of pedagogy called "learn from the mistakes".

Lennart

I think it's an awesome idea and, the light doesn't get banged around either.

goodjobLennartFoy

That's a great idea and as Foy said it keeps the lght safe as well... bonus.

I have a story about keeping things clean.
My sister got into a discussion about all the stuff that were on their respective Swiss knives.The one she had was the only one that smelled perfume.Not brake fluid or motor oil.

Lennart