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    Default Frosting LED's

    i'm 98.234234% sure that this would work but want to know if you can frost a LED by sanding the top. i have some 2000 grit sand paper and some 5mm blue and green LED's i just got from lsdiodes.com (great site BTW). i wasn't thinking at the time when i placed my order but i was going to replace my power and hdd light respectively. i was thinking i can put the LED genlty in a drill and spin it on the sand paper to get a frosted look. would i be able to cut the top flat too?
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    Default Re: Frosting LED's

    yes and yes.
    You can sand down LEDs to make a round LED fir a square hole. Just don't go too far...
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    Default Re: Frosting LED's

    If you look in you can see the working bits by looking in. Don't go too close and all should be fine. Even if you do go too close LEDs don't cost much.

    You get LEDs in frosted, square, everything imaginable cases anyway.

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    i was going to replace my green and red/orange rectangular Leds with some blue and some other colour. i ended up getting another green because i didn't really think about it. i order 5mm led so it gave me just enough to cut away at it and make it rectangle. then i burnt one out with a 9v battery. i've used 9v batteries to power led before with no problems but maybe i got to close to the light. so it went from bright blue to dim red to smoke. i ended up using a blue and ultraviolet led but i'm going to change the ultraviolet led the next led order i place.
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    Default Re: Frosting LED's

    i've used sandpaper on LEDs too; works fine.

    Quote Originally Posted by Spawn-Inc View Post
    then i burnt one out with a 9v battery. i've used 9v batteries to power led before with no problems but maybe i got to close to the light.
    You know, LEDs are meant to use between about 2.8v and 4.5v. Some (read: industrial, like in appliances) LEDs have built in resistors or your 9v battery died enough to get below 5v.

    I like to test LEDs with CR2048 button cell batteries. You can easily slip the two electrodes around the battery without bending them and the batteries last a good amount before needing replacement.

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    Default Re: Frosting LED's

    Absolutely. The tops are just made from acrylic.

    However, 2000 grit won't frost them - thats what I use to polish acrylic... =D
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    ya after sanding it with 2000 it looks good but then i wiped away the dust and it was pretty much still clear. i was going to drill a round hold and just use the 5mm led instead of the rectangle one but decided to cut the round into a rectangle. the cutting disc made nice frosted look so that was a bonus. i would take pictures but its all glued in place.
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    Default Re: Frosting LED's

    Absolutely. The tops are just made from acrylic.

    However, 2000 grit won't frost them - thats what I use to polish acrylic
    Typo:
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    Jon has altered his cock to compensate.

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    you a robot or something?!? whats with the same thing being said?
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    Default Re: Frosting LED's

    the second time he wasnt as happy...note the absence of a smily face...

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    stunning, how does one tap a hole?

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