has anyone made own red or amber filters for lamp?

[kingoftoosh 15]

I seen in Airgun mag a while back about making own filters for lamp using some kind of red plastic sheet from art shop .Has anyone done similar or know what material should be used?

Cheers for reading,hope someone can help. also looking into buying filter for my tactical lamp online if i can find correct ones.

Atb marti

[davedavedave 69]

Quality street wrappers over the end of my P7 LED Lenser work great

[Phantom 631]

Hey Marti,

 

Just sent that link for you.

 

The plastic that you get from the art shops is an acetate sheet. Not too cheap if the prices of them round here are owt to go by Was going to do same myself. I used the quality street wrapper for a while, but the filters I got are far superior as they are 'optically pure' and allow a huge amount of light through them.

 

Phantom

[kingoftoosh 15]

Excellent idea with the quality street wrappers,and i get the bonus of eating some chocs too. Will try this till i get something more permanant.Will need to take some spare quality street ...just in case of emergency,emergency being me needing some food!!

 

acetate,thats the bloody word mate,was wracking my brains for ages,just couldn't remember what it was called. will look into they filters on that link you sent Tony,they look just the jobbies i need.

Cheers Guys

[ulverston moocher 60]

made a couple of my own over the years and the best thing I find is a two littre tizer pop bottle they are red coulerd plastic and the two littre bottle when cut and opened out gives you a fair bit of the stuff and costs next to nowt.

ATB

Moocher

[Buster321c 1,010]

Best thing to use is glass . Look for replacement flashlight lenses somewhere like dealextreme you can buy em , then just change the glass , simple .

[chalkedup 14]

ive got a a4 sheet of red and orange acetate , what size is your lense ?

i can sort you a bit of each just pm your addy and il get it posted

[rossy08 33]

was talking with shay (i think forgive me if not) on the phone a while ago he was helping me out with some lamping tips, and im shure he said that he had befor made some out of old scope lense covers. as they tend to be amber on one end, just a cut shut an tape job..

 

now i think about it why havent i tryed it yet

 

wheres me knife.

 

Andy

[kingoftoosh 15]

ive got a a4 sheet of red and orange acetate , what size is your lense ?

i can sort you a bit of each just pm your addy and il get it posted

 

cheers terron ,you're a gentleman!

like your wee dog,what a stance it's got. is that a Lakey?

Edited October 28, 2010 by kingoftoosh

[kingoftoosh 15]

Thanks for the suggestions guys, on the lookout for tizer and quality st.Maybe not for lamp,just for munching....cos i'm a greedy barsteward who loves chocolte + fizzy ginger

[chalkedup 14]

ive got a a4 sheet of red and orange acetate , what size is your lense ?

i can sort you a bit of each just pm your addy and il get it posted

 

cheers terron ,you're a gentleman!

like your wee dog,what a stance it's got. is that a Lakey?

 

not too sure what he is possibly lakey x jrt ?

hes filled out alot more now