![]() I put a few drops of hot glue on the thread protector to secure the LED. So I sliced off the end to expose the LED. Then I remembered that I had a bag of pipe thread protectors left over from an amateur radio antenna install - I use them to make custom grommets for my coax cable ingress box.Īs it turns out, the LED lights friction-fit perfectly into thread protectors. Sugru or InstaMorph (moldable rubber) would have been great, but I used all my Sugru to make a custom mount for a Wii sensor. ![]() We considered using modeling clay, but I thought that might get messy. The others had smaller openings, so I needed to hack something up. We also discovered that a color-changing light had got mixed into our set of white lights, which the kids decided was really cool because that house "looks like they're having a party".Īs it turns out, some of her houses have larger openings for the C7 lamps, so we just set the light on the table and put the house on top of it. ![]() The lights arrived with batteries, and only one of them was depleted, so we were good to go. Each light uses a couple of CR2032 batteries, so we picked up a pack of 20 for under $8.00. You can get them in white, color-changing, or a mixed set. These typically come in packs of 10 - 12, are used for weddings and such (toss them in the bottom of the punch bowl, etc), and cost about $0.80 each. We started by buying a set of small submersible LED tea lights. The houses are fun, but it's a huge mess, so we decided to homebrew some LED lights for them. The lights get hot, so in proximity to the fabric there's always a fire risk if one of the lights were to pop out. ![]() We wind up trying to hide them with fluffy "snow" fabric, and then we have to hide a socket-strip and all the plugs. Given the number of houses she has, cord management is always an issue. One of my wife's holiday favorites is a set of Dickens-style houses/buildings, some have signs like "Scrooge & Marley" "Fezziwig" etc. Last weekend my wife and I started getting the Christmas decorations out of storage. ![]()
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