Building a Slide Film Lamp

Photography enthusiasts and enthusiasts who've boxes of 35mm slides that should be organized and scanned might find it helpful to produce a portable and affordable lamp to light up 35mm slides. You are able to develop a lamp using materials at home improvement and budget decorating stores. The sunshine box supplies a stable surface to keep 35mm slides and backlighting to see the pictures to help you have a digital photograph from the slide. You may also adapt this lamp design to satisfy needs beyond viewing 35mm slides, for example developing a lighted picture frame, tracing surface or small, lighted display.||MR16 LED SpotLight

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        Select a picture frame with wide sides (for example three or four inches throughout) to produce a table-like top within the lamp.

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        Turn the image frame over to ensure that the glass is facing lower and put on the flat working surface.

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        Take away the back plate from the picture frame store the picture in position.

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        Appraise the area a minimum of 1/2 inch in the picture opening (this ought to be slightly bigger compared to picture size). For instance, the measurement to have an 8-by-10 picture is 9-by-11.

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        Glue the glass towards the frame and hang it aside to dry and cure completely.

        For longer use, consider changing the glass within the picture frame having a obvious, thick plastic panel (cut towards the same size because the glass) and glue this sheet towards the inside edges from the frame.

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        Cut the wood towards the measured measures from Step Four. For instance, a measurement of 9-by-11 requires cutting two measures of 9 inches and 2 measures of 11 inches.

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        Drill single-inch hole on both sides of the lengthy period of wood, roughly 2 " in the finish, to support the energy cord for each one of the LED Bulb Lamp.

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        Assemble the 4 bits of wood to produce a wide open box.

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        Secure the corners and sides from the box using wood screws.

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        Fresh paint the inside walls from the box with two jackets of whitened fresh paint and permit to dry completely.

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        Install the compact, under-the-counter LED light fittings within each one of the shorter sides from the box. Make certain to center the sunshine fixture flat and up and down around the panel and orient the sunshine fixture to ensure that the energy cord is on a single side because the drilled holes.

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        Thread the energy cords with the drilled holes and plug right into a energy strip.

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        Put the picture frame face lower and put the sunshine box on the top from the frame. Trace a plan from the corners from the lamp on the rear of the image frame.

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        Take away the lamp and fix the corner brackets towards the picture frame to produce a help guide to contain the frame top in position.

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        Turn the frame over and put on the top from the lamp, ensuring the corner brackets work with the outdoors corners from the lamp.

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        Cut the translucent plastic glass to suit the image size (for instance, 8-by-10).

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        Take away the protective film around the plastic glass and put on the top from the glass surface.

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        Plug the energy cord from the energy strip into a power outlet and switch on the LED Panel Light.

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        Place 35mm slides on the top from the plastic glass to see the rear-lit images.

Tips & Alerts

    Have a variety of plastic glass of different translucency open to make use of the lamp for other reasons, for example tracing.

    If you are utilizing a longer frame (for example 11-by-13 or bigger), consider setting up compact LED strip lights around the lengthy side from the box.

    Make certain to set up the LED light fittings centered between your top and bottom to prevent getting too hot surfaces.

    To prevent cracking or breaking, don't apply pressure or weight towards the glass surface.