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Newly Enlightened
If you can get some Acetron or very high density Polyethelyne, it does a neat job at moving light. I used to make table coasters, towers, lamps, clocks and so on. The clock is an example below per someone's PM sent to me.
This is from my old site genlight which is no longer in operation. I am going to turn it back on though
The Acetron LED Clock.
The router table setup to cut the channel for the LEDs
The installing of LED and wiring.
The finished product
The below is a color fading LED table piece, my friend uses it to put center pieces on his table. It uses a PIC to color fade the different LEDs through the RGB spectrum.
All this is old stuff but someone asked me about about it and I got a PM on an old mod so I figured I would post some pictures.
Acetron is engineering plastic, extremely dense and machinable like metal. You might be lucky and be able to find a local business that uses it and they may let you dig through their scrap bin, this is what I do to get mine.
I still have boards and slabs of the stuff. I have a single slab that is about 3 foot tall, 4 inches thick and 2 foot wide and weighs about 120 pounds Its heavy stuff. It is great for modeling or machining your piece to make sure you get what you want out the lathe or CNC rather cutting the metal piece first, cut it on the acetron to make sure everything is right. It is so dense that you can thread it or do anything you can do to aluminum
This is from my old site genlight which is no longer in operation. I am going to turn it back on though
The Acetron LED Clock.
The router table setup to cut the channel for the LEDs
The installing of LED and wiring.
The finished product
The below is a color fading LED table piece, my friend uses it to put center pieces on his table. It uses a PIC to color fade the different LEDs through the RGB spectrum.
All this is old stuff but someone asked me about about it and I got a PM on an old mod so I figured I would post some pictures.
Acetron is engineering plastic, extremely dense and machinable like metal. You might be lucky and be able to find a local business that uses it and they may let you dig through their scrap bin, this is what I do to get mine.
I still have boards and slabs of the stuff. I have a single slab that is about 3 foot tall, 4 inches thick and 2 foot wide and weighs about 120 pounds
Its heavy stuff. It is great for modeling or machining your piece to make sure you get what you want out the lathe or CNC rather cutting the metal piece first, cut it on the acetron to make sure everything is right. It is so dense that you can thread it or do anything you can do to aluminum 
