Re: MM Dragon LED Mod

To add to that, it is necessary to use thin wire so your eye holes are less
than the led diameter but enough to push the thin wire through.

GRY

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John wrote:
Ok, I got all the parts together for this (had a spare flex dragon).

Hate re-inventing the wheel, but I don't think there's a How-To guide
from Tim. The Big Question for me, at this point, is did he mount the
LEDs by fishing them up through the neck from the inside, or did he do
it from the outside? The problem doing it from the outside is that
drilling a hole big enough to fit the LED flange through is going to
leave a lot of slop around the barrel, and from the google pix I have
seen, the barrels look like they are press fit into the holes. If he
did it from the inside, man, that's one long skinny neck to fish stuff
through up into the head. Don't want to start drilling holes till I
have a better idea which method he used.

Here is some information tat Gary sent me concerning this:

"I think we inserted the lead wires attached to each led through the
holes in
the face first then fished them out the bottom. Once we had the wires
through we pushed the leds into the holes which need to be slightly
smaller
than the led's diameter so they fit in snugly. Then we joined the wires
at
the bottom, attached the resistor and hooked it up to the dragon
flasher.


I seem to remember the red mouth led being a 5mm but the eyes were less
than
3mm. We did experiment with other colors but felt green eyes and red
mouth
were the best."

This should fill in the missing pieces for now. :)

Doug



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