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polaris:

sorry dude plexi  us = perspex uk
what slider said is what im saying
if you cant get frosted, get some frost gel/filter from a theatre supplies to wash out the led or do what kaytrim says in the post he beat me to

slider2732:

Heck and i'm from Cheshire in England but live now in the USA  :o
Just shows huh, getting too Americanised.



Yeah, plexi/perspex, same thing :)

fjl:

I don't know if any of you have ever seen one but they are shaped to retain the LED plus molded to refract the light inward and outward ONLY where it mounts to the outside. If I just make a "window" with the plexi, then it would basically just be an LED shining behind glass and the whole window wont be lit, only where the LED points to it. Perhaps using frosted plexi might help to disperse the light througout but somehow I doubt it will do a very good job of it.

So no one knows the name of these molds and who manufactures them?

crashwg:

I highly doubt you'll find someplace to buy all sorts of shapes and sizes of this sort of thing.  What I would do is just keep your eyes open for any junk electronics that you can salvage one from...

fjl:

Okay after much googling, I found something similar called Light Pipes. Problem is that just as the name implies, they are manufactured bent like pipes and only light up a small area at the end of the pipe/mold. Perhaps there is a different name for the ones that are bigger and non-bent. I believe these things are also called Light Transporters.

I can't really keep researching this right now since I have to leave for work but perhaps someone here can help me find something. Perhaps Randy, with his excellent design skills can create some of these for us to use with our LED-Wiz's. That would kick ass.

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