The Mellymelsr M71

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redbenjoe

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rumble_under said:
this looks amazing. how does one go about putting LED's into a boombox? i would love to try it sometime.

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for the m70 &71 models - norm :superduper: :super: sells a nifty kit- :thumbsup:
there is a very recent thread about it
 
Reli

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So are the tuner markings just regular white paint, or are they something special that picks up light?
 
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Reli said:
So are the tuner markings just regular white paint, or are they something special that picks up light?
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They are just regular white paint. The trick is in the thick dial plastic that touches the dial markings. It acts as a conduit for the light, like a fiber optic strand, and makes the markings seem to light up.
 
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Fatdog said:
Reli said:
So are the tuner markings just regular white paint, or are they something special that picks up light?
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They are just regular white paint. The trick is in the thick dial plastic that touches the dial markings. It acts as a conduit for the light, like a fiber optic strand, and makes the markings seem to light up.
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On all the boxes I own, it seems like the vast majority don't have that. If you take them apart, the metal tuning strip is there, exposed, with no plastic over it.
 
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Superduper said:
Your M9998 has it. ;-)
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How thick is it? Are we talking about a piece of plastic that's just as thick as the external piece of plastic? Or something that's much thinner?
 
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About the same. Too thin and it becomes hard to inject light into the plastic as it only accepts light at the edges and a thin edge is too small a receptor window unless there is a ramp like thickening of the plastic where the bulb is.
 
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