Recently I found a hefty King Sol flash at an antique mall. This was slightly shorter than an MPP and… it was old. The dish was closer to hardware than camera equipment, the logo on the endcap was tiny and the socket was ceramic … I’ve never see that before.
Anyway, I nabbed it just in case I got creative and while wishing I could make a beveled shroud.. realized it had one of those tubes with screws in it to attach to a camera. I sliced a section of that, and hammered in some aluminum tubing! Next I cut and carved a “shoulder” and used a single thumb screw and some glue to hold it in place.
For good measure I also ground up a Roman MPP chrome emitter socket sleeve and stuck that in there with a grub screw from the front. That slides right down into the flash above its own socket.
After this I found a leftover clamp and Wannawanga lever in my stores, and made a piece of brass sheet hand fitted for the clamp…. And a D ring block up top with model airplane 4-40 screws.
Oh, did I mention, I took apart an aircraft breaker in my hunt for the DV6 black box. That was a bust but a piece from the inside served for a GREAT looking “bulb release”