[JScullin]

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I made one on making the rings themselves, I don't plan on doing the electrical till this weekend but thought I'd get this out...

If someone wants to take over and take some photos & explain the steps I'll put them together in the same style as mine to keep it consistant. Just make a list of your steps & materials.

 

[phant0mzero]

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my how-to is on the cougar db if you want it for further refrence http://www.cougardb.com/howtoshow.php?howtoid=1

 

[JScullin]

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Cool, I didn't see that.

If you want I can give you some of the pictures I took for more clarity on what your describing. But I think we really need photos on the electrical part since most people might be scared by that part.

 

[EricF]

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Hey whats the diameter of the ring, I tried measuring my soda can..
is it about 3 inches? if so.. I have something thats gonna make this
project alot easier

 

[JScullin]

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I just wrapped a tape measure around the can, it was about 10" so I added another inch so I could have room to play.

 

[EricF]

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where do you get your cans of soda... heh mine measures 8.25 inches circumference..
either way whats the diameter of the circle, the distance across the center.

 

[phant0mzero]

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it would be awesome to collab this, my cam wasn't good at taking close pix, so if you do that, and we put both how-to's together I think it'll help a lot. let me know, I have a Word version of it for easier printout if you'd like.

 

[phant0mzero]

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Originally posted by: EricF
where do you get your cans of soda... heh mine measures 8.25 inches circumference..
either way whats the diameter of the circle, the distance across the center.

damn, I just made a pair for someone, wish this was posted yesterday aso I could have measured them. lol

 

[Cat88Extreme]

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Moving to How Tos forum.

 

[Crispy]

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send me a write up and your photos for the whole process and I will host that sucker on TeamNECO for all to use and abuse...

great work SkullZ!

 

[JScullin]

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I'm gonna work on a template that you can place under the ring. It will have lines you can just line up & dremel your notches, keeping them the same distance.

This is just a test of different sizes & depths for the notches on a botched ring:

 

[JScullin]

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Here's a notch guide. This should provide adaquite spacing so it's distinguishable from a distance, you can place your ring over this guide and it should line up for you fine. It's not ment as a width for the notches, just spacing.

Also, those thumbnails I have up top are 500x300 so they'll be easy to read/understand.

 

[phant0mzero]

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just remember that some people will want the ring without the gap, so you may want to close the ring for a guide, just IMO.

 

[JScullin]

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Where will they put the LED's then?

I don't think we have the room to do it like the BMW headlights do. Where the ring meets, but both ends bend back into the headlights.

 

[JScullin]

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Here's a finished set using that guide. Hardest part is maintaining the same depth in each notch...

 

[phant0mzero]

drill holes into the ends of the ring, put the LED's back to back, like what's done in the original how-to written by the crx owner. I believe CATerina did this also,I personally wanted the gap, but that was just me. the ones I recently made have the very little gap.

 

[JScullin]

Ah, I getcha. By having the gap you have the appearence of a mean brow.

 

[phant0mzero]

basically, looks like you're only using 1 LED per ring on those samples, any reason?

 

[JScullin]

I only opened 1 to test the brightness. And actually, it wasn't too bright cause the guy at RadioShack gave me the wrong info.

I bought a set of 3.7v 20mA, 2600mcd blue's because the guy told me they were brigher than the 1100's. I have a pair of white ones that are 1100 for another person and they're like a flashlight they're so bright. The blue LED I used there is one I took out of one of those keychain LED's, which is exactly how bright I want it to be so I'm gonna return the RadioShack ones & buy the keychains and crack them open.

 

[Excelcier]

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