Flakey
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If i took stainless steel bowl, poked a hole in the bottom and put a bulb through, do you think this would throw longer than say a standard mag reflector?
Flakey said:If i took stainless steel bowl, poked a hole in the bottom and put a bulb through, do you think this would throw longer than say a standard mag reflector?
Templar223 said:I had to giggle!
Seriously though, I had a cheap 3-D yellow ray-o-vac light that was hanging and the batteries leaked big-time in the garage (I never realized how much liquid is in an alkaline battery!). Brought it indoors and washed it out and the caustic stuff had dissolved the aluminized reflector stuff off the reflector.
I needed a flood light anyway, so I:
1. Sprayed photo mount spray (basically aerosolized rubber cement) onto the reflector face.
2. Glued the shiny side of a piece of aluminum foil to the face, leaving the dull side exposed.
3. Trimmed the excess Al foil away.
4. Put the light back together and viola!
One "flood" light for working in tight spaces.
Sometimes a fella just doesn't want 800 lumens (or even 60) of light!
John