@Norm Charbonneau posted:I really can’t stand the heat shrunk LED leads. Now that they are stuffing two LEDs in there they are even fatter. I ordered some fiber optic end glow rod from Amazon to experiment with.
I’m guessing the return to the shrink wrapped 3mm LEDs are due to the fact that the 2mm ceramic base LEDs are no longer available from the original manufacturer.
There is another type that has a little 2mm extension that will fit where the older ceramic ones do. I’ve previously used them for diesel marker lights. They may work here if the “nub” is long enough, though you’d have to drill a hole in the boiler front directly behind the marker lamp housing. That said, I’m having trouble finding the exact item now.
They sort of look like this, but with a longer nub.
