We all have been using portable torches run by batteries sometimes when we can not see properly in tight spaces of small things, and perhaps in different situations we come across having not enough light with one desk lamp and ended up turning on lights from the ceiling as well.
Why not get a middle size desk lamp (8" tall) that works well as a torch with high brightness and serves at the same time as illumination for the dark and excluded side of your desk?
Most of materials are recycled or found at a low cost. You can use same ones but I encourage everyone to make the most of the bits you may have lying around home or perhaps somebody got ones that are about to toss, why not used them for standing a useful handy light?
As you can see below removing just two screws can be flat-pack!
These are the main components that worked out for me:
12 V Power Adapter (taken from and old internet router, in this case it´s a 2 A job, more than enough!)
2 Way Terminal Block (and a self-tapping screw to secure it in place)
Why using that? In this case It´s got a double purpose:
Using a terminal block (instead of any other joint) you can easily plug many devices
that run at 12V as for example a fan, computer fans run at 12V!
Wooden slat used as a post (8" tall worked for me, longer or shorter depending on your needs)
6.8" 12V LED Strip (the ones used for cars nowadays)
Silicone adhesive 704 (or other heat resistant and heat conductive silicone to glue the strip to the metal)
Metal slat used as a heatsink and holding part for the LED strip.
(It used to be a chassis of a ceiling light that past away. I did my best turning it into a "L" shape,
not perfect but good enough for a casual workbench).
Cleanout Cover Plate (3" of diameter) used as a base.
(Neat thing to use as It already has a hole to secure our wooden post with a screw.
Someone left it at the place I moved!)
Magnet taken from a microwave oven.
(attach it to the metal base to balance the weight in order to our lamp not to tip over)
2 self-tapping screws.
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