Comments by "" (@MonkeyJedi99) on "Once again I attempt to add polish to LED holiday lights" video.

  1. When we retired our incandescent C9 strings, we had many-colored night lights for a few years. Quite helpful if you were barely awake. Blue meant bathroom, red meant you're headed for the stairs...
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  2. I found it translates to "dipping lacquer" which is available from various brands in a wide array of colors and for various uses. But the method you described works with that product.
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  3.  @Real28  I was always amazed that those types of light strings didn't short out from either melted snow and ice or when there was winter rain. We stopped using those on our tree the first year we found the mini lights, which was probably smart, as we were still using a real tree back then, and by New Years' Day it was brittle and dropping needles like rain.
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  4. I love the imagery of "like Las Vegas got lost in a pine forest".
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  5.  @blaydCA  China? Don't you mean Western Taiwan? (since we're having fun)
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  6.  @OrigamiMarie  I can recall every year some news channel (or all of them) would show a fire department simulating a Christmas tree fire in a room with wrapped gifts and furniture. We always had at least two fire extinguishers in the house, a smaller one next to the stove, and a large one to bring to whatever was next most hazardous that season. It could be parked in the room with the tree, or brought out with you when you changed the in-line filter on your car's fuel line, or put in the yard next to the hose when burning brush.
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  7. Or maybe, and I know I'm being crazy here, get them made in this country?
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  8.  @SmartAlx  Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves Scheherezade had a thousand tales But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves You got a brand of magic never fails You got some power in your corner now Some heavy ammunition in your camp You got some punch, pizazz, yahoo and how See all you gotta do is rub that lamp And I'll say Mister Aladdin, sir What will your pleasure be? Let me take your order Jot it down You ain't never had a friend like me - Sorry, that song floats into my brain every time I see or hear a mention of that website.
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  9.  @OrigamiMarie  You've hit the nail on the head. We were changing lights in a ceiling fixture one time (from incandescent to LED), and the white globe over the bulbs was dirty. So we washed it with hot water and soap, rinsed it hot, and dried it. When we set the globe on a table to wait for it to be re-installed, it touched a cool glass of water and just exploded. Turns out the thing was very old, was not well tempered to begin with, and had had over fifty hears of heat and cool cycles further setting up internal stresses in the very thin glass. - So, now it is bare bulbs.
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  10. That is really cool!
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  11. Have you looked into dyes for epoxy resins, or airbrush-intended dyes and/or inks?
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  12. But why sell you a $3 pack of light caps when they can sell you a $10 string for lights for each different color need? - Particularly with people not realizing they can just swap out the bulbs. This was how we turned a pile of multi-colored mini-incandescent strings into a number of mono-colored strings.
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  13. Arduino controlled color-changing LED strips! You can do slow color shifting of the whole strand at one, or progressive through the strand, blinking, flashing, slow or fast strobing (effective for finding the people with seizure disorders?), bright-to-dim, and all sorts of lighting effects
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