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Homemade headlight reflector with LED

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  • From: Sweden
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Homemade headlight reflector with LED
Posted by Graffen on Thursday, March 22, 2018 1:50 PM

Latest project ....

A reflector with light for my narrow-gauge locomotives.

The diameter of the reflector is 4 mm.

The LED is 0.5 x 1 mm!

The reflector I made out of aluminum from oven trays.

I took a nut of the right diameter and slowly pushed the aluminum with the rounded top of the hat from a ballpoint pen.

Then I rough cut the edges and filed it to shape with a needle file.

I then drilled a 0.8 mm hole in the center of the reflector.

I glued the LED to the backside of the reflector with epoxy.

The LED is a bit too white, so it'll get a drop of Tamiya transparent orange.

Then I'll take Microscale Crystal Clear and fill the reflector so it gets a lens.

 

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  • From: Bradford, Ontario
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Posted by hon30critter on Thursday, March 22, 2018 5:26 PM

Just another fine example of your creativity Graff!!

Dave

I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!

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  • From: 4610 Metre's North of the Fortyninth on the left coast of Canada
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Posted by BATMAN on Friday, March 23, 2018 10:41 AM

That is very cool Graff. It has me wondering if light shades from Ngineering would be the right size. I will have to investigate.

Brent

"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."

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