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Step 2Install LED Mounts In Helmet
Before you start gluing, test the LEDs in a bread board, or 3AAAs in a case, or a 4v power source, just to make sure it all works.
The Shoe Goo is for holding and building in the mounts, but also the mounts are placed so as to let air in the front two vents still, and a little out the back and top. You could put lights in all the vents I suppose. Or skip the top ones altogether.
1. Sand 2 of the LED mounts ribs off on two sides. These are for the top two lights so they fit into the tight vents
2. Super glue the six mounts into the vents. I used "gap filling" supper glue. Super glue dries fast, so place them where you want them and then hold them until the glue sets. Let dry. Make sure the O rings can be unsqrewed!
3. Shoe Goo in the big holes. I had to do one at a time since Shoe Goo flows with gravity. So I mounted the helmet in a vise, with one vent pointed up, taped the backside of the helmet's vent, and filled the gaps. Then let it dry for 24 hours. Then repeated for each vent.
4. Spot super glue wires into the air vents of the helmet.
5. Put another layer or two in vents where the Shoe Goo settled.
The Shoe Goo is for holding and building in the mounts, but also the mounts are placed so as to let air in the front two vents still, and a little out the back and top. You could put lights in all the vents I suppose. Or skip the top ones altogether.
1. Sand 2 of the LED mounts ribs off on two sides. These are for the top two lights so they fit into the tight vents
2. Super glue the six mounts into the vents. I used "gap filling" supper glue. Super glue dries fast, so place them where you want them and then hold them until the glue sets. Let dry. Make sure the O rings can be unsqrewed!
3. Shoe Goo in the big holes. I had to do one at a time since Shoe Goo flows with gravity. So I mounted the helmet in a vise, with one vent pointed up, taped the backside of the helmet's vent, and filled the gaps. Then let it dry for 24 hours. Then repeated for each vent.
4. Spot super glue wires into the air vents of the helmet.
5. Put another layer or two in vents where the Shoe Goo settled.
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