Modification of the Canister

When I was looking for leakage of the canister I probably needed to seal at a bit more from the inside to make sure it was not leaking, on this image you can see where I added some more silicon inside the canister.


Here are the new contacts and teh blue arrow shows where I added silicon in the contact before I put it together, just to make sure it wasnt gonna let any water in through the contact.


On the inside of the lid the cords looks like this before I put them into the plastic contact.


To make sure that the contact is really NOT leaking I added some silicon on the inside of the lid too.


This is how the contact looks like put together and ready to be connected. As you can see the contact of the cord is with an 90 degrees angle which I think is really good to make it last much longer.


Another modification is this holder that are similar to the "buy-the-lamp-in-the-store" lamps. I just used 30 cm of soft webbing and strapped it really hard with the steal-strapps. It will be used if I want to put on my hip on my hip-webbing.


I also added another rubber-seal (o-ring) for the lid that hopefully will dothe trick.

So far I havent had the opportunity to try them out while diving but I have faith in them that these modifications will make it sealed.

Modification of the lamphead

Now it was time for the modification of the lamphead to take care of the problem with leakage and trouble with putting it together (it was so tight that the air needed to get out couldnt come out...).

Next picture shows the 3rd hole I drilled in the back of the lamp where the screw will be (the small hole at the top).


Inside of the back of the lamp where I have fixated a screwnut with superglue.


Here I have added more PL400 glue to keep the nut in place...


Added the switch and also plenty of silicon to make sure it is sealed.


At the arrow you can see the "air"-screw from the outside and it has an small rubberseal also.


This is how it looked like before the modifications...

New lamphead for the lamp...

As part of the search for a "perfect" homemade lamp I am also trying out a new lamphead from Jula company for a cost of 99 SEK. I did some modification of this lamphead to but that was more practical than anything else... ;)



This picture shows you the small add-ons for this lamphead:
2. Added this metal band to make it possible to use my homemade goodman-grip in plastic (nr 1 in the picture)
3. To be careful about the contact at the end of lamp I decided to keep the metal-hoop at the back of the lamp but I needed to make the hole bigger to fit the lamp-cord going through it.


This lamphead will have a on/off on the cord to the canister and I will show you that in the next couple of days... Its gonna be an homemade and simple as usual...