Yes, you can just slap a Standard Adapter
on the back of $300 Mola Demi or drill four holes in the edge and do the same to put a Speedotron BD on the Alien Bee. Heck... You can even buy a China Wok turned into a BD for Alien bee on ebay Here. Problem is the flash tube is recessed into adapter ring. As most of you know from all these DIY mods we see it's real important to get the flash tube into the dish as far as possible. Here is a image to show you what I'm talking about.
The image on the left is standard adapter. See how much of the tube is recessed into the adapter? This is like having the tube in a small reflector which reflects most of the light forward into the diffusion disk instead of scattering the light all over the dish. On the right is a adapter that I've been working on to make the whole tube sit well into the dish. It mounts right onto the back of the Mola and is pre-drilled for the Speedotron. The result is now the high end Demi can now be used on the PCB flashes with full efficiency.
Here are the two side by side
Next on my list is to develop a low profile Speedring for the Alien Bee. See how much of the flash tube is hidden in the Speedring? I'm going to do my best to get that tube exposed into the softbox like other high end flashes and get the full bounce of the tube inside the box. Maybe Paul Buff will help us out and extend the flash tube forward with his new designed Einstein flashes.
