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Originally Posted by dcdoug
I actually think it looks pretty decent, although probably not worth the hassle in my opinion.
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It has been a slight hassle. But, for the next guy it won't be. I won't drill it again myself. Instead, I'll carefully mark the spots to drill and have it done at my local machine shop. That makes it loads easier. Another lesson learned is not to build the array first, but rather keep each light half a mm separated and insert them individually. That's because the light fixture itself is slightly concave/convex -- so in order to get a "perfect fit" you need to place each light in individually and then glue them. Those holes that I drilled were 1/8" holes with a hand drill. I'm still not sure whether three holes, four holes, or five holes will look the most natural "brightness-wise," but if it turns out to be three, and I have the machine shop do the drilling at exactly 3mm, then I'm 100% confident no one would ever even notice it -- even when looking right at it. It's really a cheap upgrade, "parts wise." The LEDs cost twenty five cents each -- and if you want to practice on a new light fixture they're only $35 each. And as to labor, I probably have about five grand of my time invested so far.
