Tamper resistant snap-fit strobe housing

In a housing for retaining electric and electronic elements of a photographic flash unit comprising mating first and second housing components;

• a locking detent carried from an interior surface of an exterior wall of the first housing component;
• a latching finger carried by the second housing component and having means for releasably engaging the latching finger, the improvement wherein:
• the latching finger has a portion made of material flexible relative to the locking detent for facilitating releasable engagement therebetween as the first and second housing components are forced together, the locking detent having a camming surface configured and dimensioned to engge the flexible finger portion and cooperate with it in such a fashion during assembly of the housing components to flex the finger from an unlocking condition, wherein the detent and releasable means are out of engagement, to a locking condition, wherein the releasable engaging means lockingly cooperates with the detent to thereby prohibit separation of the housing components when the housing components are pulled in opposite directions in a given plane generally parallel to the plane of said finger, said latching finger extends from said second component in overlapping relationship to a surface of the locking detent facing away from said interior surface of the wall so that the releasable engaging means releasably engages and retains the latching finger in continuous engagement with the locking detent when said interior wall is pulled in opposite directions relative to the first housing component at an angle to said given plane.