Using CA with 1.8mm LEDs

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I do not have 2mm fiber and it would cause a cylinder when I need a small round top to it. Lighthouse/tower are flat and sanding that down would cause scratching.

Scratching? You are aware that you're venturing into a hobby that consists of more sanding, than it does building, right?

I've never once sanded a lighthouse LED. I scare it with a lighter and it domes over.

 

[robn1]

The LED can be polished after sanding, just rubbing it on your jeans may do it. Also fiber can be domed by holding the tip near a candle, making a little lens.

Another idea, use a T3 or T5 LED placed down inside the model, drill a small hole in the tip, and place a piece of fiber in it. Run the fiber to where you want the light, and use the doming technique.

Lots of different ways to make stuff work.

 

[jamstraz]

Scratching? You are aware that you're venturing into a hobby that consists of more sanding, than it does building, right?

I've never once sanded a lighthouse LED. I scare it with a lighter and it domes over.

And that doesn't cause scorch marks? Anytime I tried blooming fiber it tends to be uneven or worse bubbles and burns

 

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It doesn't cause scorch marks, if you're doing it right. In all your threads, you seem somewhat dismissive to what people are telling you, just because it hasn't worked for you yet.

People on this board have literally been doing this for decades. None of us are giving you bad advice, it just takes practice to get right.

 

[jamstraz]

The LED can be polished after sanding, just rubbing it on your jeans may do it. Also fiber can be domed by holding the tip near a candle, making a little lens.

Another idea, use a T3 or T5 LED placed down inside the model, drill a small hole in the tip, and place a piece of fiber in it. Run the fiber to where you want the light, and use the doming technique.

Lots of different ways to make stuff work.

The problem is space on that one. I'm going to be building a variant of the polar lights Klingon D-7 but I'm going heavily "Romulize" it. The piece can barely fits two 1.8mm on the Klingon one I'm building and the way it sits...fiber would be hard to run that way. I'll take a pic when I get home of the Klingon one to help

 

[jamstraz]

It doesn't cause scorch marks, if you're doing it right. In all your threads, you seem somewhat dismissive to what people are telling you, just because it hasn't worked for you yet.

People on this board have literally been doing this for decades. None of us are giving you bad advice, it just takes practice to get right.

Not dismissive. Just...new. and relating what I did and wondering how it worked when I suck lol. My attempts at blooming usually end up melting it, bubbling it or it plain melting.