A craftswoman from the Instructables website under the nickname craftalavista got a vintage Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera with a flash designed for disposable lamps, the action of which is based on the combustion of metals in an atmosphere of pure oxygen. Using such lamps has always been quite expensive, but now they are also not so easy to purchase. Therefore, the craftswoman decided to remake the flash into a continuous illuminator. If you can find a film of type 620 (this is not 120, which is still being produced), the illuminator can be used for its intended purpose when shooting close up. Well, if not, then it will just be an interesting interior item and a lamp.
First of all, the craftswoman removes and disassembles the flash:
Since then it will be necessary to process not only metal, but also phenol-formaldehyde resin, it wears PPE:
Dromel completes the body and reflector so that it is possible to install the lamp holder and pass the cord:
The lamp holder also gets it. Well, since it is bayonet-mounted, despite the fact that the lamp is a network lamp, it means that it is happening in England.
The craftswoman connects the cartridge, and then installs it in place, like the reflector. She writes that she insulated the earthen wire, since the cartridge is plastic. But it is more expedient to connect it with a reflector, because it is metal.
Finally, she collects everything back, sets the converted flash back to the camera, turns the lamp on and turns it on. Since the flash, despite the use of a rather heat-resistant phenol-formaldehyde resin, is not designed for heating by a continuously working incandescent lamp, it is better to use an LED lamp, for example, filament.
Here you are ready for an unusual lamp and interior item suitable for an apartment, photo studio, photo mug or photographers' courses. And you can slowly look for a film of type 620 to get the opportunity to shoot something close in such a light.