Orbital Drydock
Active Member
DanielB, no I think that's impossible at this scale. The light ports of the model are only about 0.3mm high, not enough to drill a hole into. And even if it was higher, I fear that the resulting light cone would not suffice to generate the illumination needed.
Orbital Drydock, which kind of wire (and which diameter) did you end up using? Can you share a picture of it? It's hard to translate the exact names from English for me. Is the connection durable enough for mounting it into the model? And most important: How did you manage to kill 5 of them? It seems as I was lucky, didn't kill one, it even survived a flip onto the hot soldering iron and resting there for a second or two... If you can tell me what to avoid, it would surely help for further experiments
I used 30ga wrapping wire. They are very fragile, but I think they can be mounted if you're careful, though it will be tricky. After soldering I pinch the wire & twist it, to help relive stress on the solder joints. My biggest problem was that the pads on the led pop off easily if the wire is moved around too much after soldering, twisting the wire helped there, killed 2 with that issue. Lost 1 to solder overheating, & 2 jumped out of the packaging & were gone forever.