Homemade Flashlight Diffusers?

N_N_R · **on:** November 28, 2012, 09:27:53 PM

Have you made your own flashlight diffusers?

What are your ideas?

I've made a few diffusers for my AAA lights

Those are chap stick caps as well as some markers which had stopped writing...

nuphoria · **Reply #1 on:** November 28, 2012, 10:05:26 PM

Those are great ideas. I guess anything opaque that fits does the job

Sparky415 · **Reply #2 on:** November 29, 2012, 12:12:23 AM

The one on the left was made from a little shampoo sample bottle

Gareth · **Reply #3 on:** November 29, 2012, 12:53:19 AM

One that I did with an old camera film canister:

Cut a hold in the top and then slits around the inner edge to let it press onto most common sized AA or CR123 lights.

Also lets lights that wouldn't normally 'tail stand' do a 'head stand'.

The other one I did was for a AAA light:

Made from a Vicks Sinex Inhaler with the label removed.

tattoosteve99 · **Reply #4 on:** November 29, 2012, 03:05:00 AM

I have some gitd sticker type stuff on mine. It glows for a couple hours after the light goes off so I get a 2 for 1

Lynn LeFey · **Reply #5 on:** November 29, 2012, 05:06:05 AM

I have one of those solar powered LED lights that are supposed to light up sidewalks at night. I took all the stuff, glass cover and such, off for use indoors. I have a plastic container that lemonade mix came in that I sit over it to make like a lantern.

I like the plastic shampoo bottle and film canister ideas. Stealing them!

stealth007s · **Reply #6 on:** November 29, 2012, 07:04:19 AM

I made a green diffuser for my hunting spotlight with two plastic picnic plates from Hobby Lobby. I used two because one wasn't green enough with 10 million lumens. We use green or red filters here when hunting hogs or other vermin.

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N_N_R · **Reply #7 on:** November 29, 2012, 08:39:57 AM

LOL cool ideas

If I ever get a bigger than AAA light, I'll try this with the old camera film canister

MARIOS7319 · **Reply #8 on:** December 02, 2012, 11:50:41 PM

Very nice and clever ideas !

I had never thought that a shampoo bottle can be used for this.

Gryffin · **Reply #9 on:** December 03, 2012, 05:20:25 AM

It's very hit-or-miss, but some translucent beverage bottle caps fit just right on some flashlight bezels. F'rinstance, I found a smallish one off a 12 or 16 oz. Poland Spring water bottle that fits like a glove on my JETBeam RRT-1, and a larger gallon jug cap that fits like a dream on my Thrunite Scorpion v2. I also found another one, brand/size unknown, that fits on some of my ~22mm-bezel lights like the AKOray K-106; damn I wish I knew where I got that cap!

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