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Re: What's your favorite way to mount an LED???

3/8/2000 11:10 PM
Mike Burgundy	Re: What's your favorite way to mount an LED??? For a different look on die-cast Al boxes, if you have a counter sinking bit, you can drill a hole the size of the LED, countersink it from the top AFTER painting (watch it! don't chip the paint), so you have a cone shaped recess around the LED, all shiny metal. A little drop of laquer keeps the aluminium shiny longer (going for a year now, still fine). The LED is fixed from the rear with some hotmelt (great stuff, that). This is probably not too gig-proof, but it works for me, and looks cool.

3/8/2000 11:10 PM

Mike Burgundy

Re: What's your favorite way to mount an LED???

For a different look on die-cast Al boxes, if you have a counter sinking bit, you can drill a hole the size of the LED, countersink it from the top AFTER painting (watch it! don't chip the paint), so you have a cone shaped recess around the LED, all shiny metal. A little drop of laquer keeps the aluminium shiny longer (going for a year now, still fine). The LED is fixed from the rear with some hotmelt (great stuff, that).
This is probably not too gig-proof, but it works for me, and looks cool.