Flashlight Stand DIY

Flashlight stand. Easy peasy less than $2 to make

1 inch pvc plug ($.99)

1 inch pvc tee ($.99)

1 quarter inch nut

Pliers

Drill bit or pick

Frying pan or soldering gun

Paint and primer if you want

I got this beauty 3 or 4 years ago and in my job, I use it daily several times. The greatest thing about this is it uses a 18650 battery which I reclaimed from a bad laptop battery. The light is very bright and the battery is long lasting and rechargeable. I easily get 4 hours steady out of it on high beam. So I only need to charge every other week or so. You see these all over the place online and WalMart, etc. Normally they are around $7 or so. T6 led in it, that's the important part. When my worklight (quartz lights) stopped working, I was thinking about buying an led replacement for around $25-$35, but it only sat on the floor. I have camera tripods already in the house, one was $3 and the other $1.50 from thrift stores, so why not use these instead of having more clutter around the house. So I came up with this.

Saw this online and it worked well for me. Put the nut into the frying pan and heat pan on high temp. Once the nut is really hot, grab it with a pliers and immediately push it into the cap and press it down. It will mold itself into the plastic. You can also take a very hot soldering iron and push the nut into the pastic with it also. The plastic will go up into the hole, but can easily be pulled out by turning a drill bit by hand in the hole while it is still soft. I wanted to try just pushing the cap onto the nut in the frying pan, but chickened out. If anyone wants to try it this way, let me know how it turns out. I only bought the one plug so I didn't want to chance it.

Push the plug into the tee and cement it if you wish. Screw the assembly onto your tipod and slide in your flashlight.

Since I like red tools that match my tool box, I painted it GM red. Final project looked very professional. Thanks for looking, hope you enjoyed this.