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LED Torch Key

Post by foggyjames » 05 Dec 2005 12:29 am

Sometimes it's hard being a PIMP!

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The damn thing had been useless for years (as I think I pointed out to Pete and Andy at the Nessy meet...), and I had a broken LED-torch keyring....soo... ;)

If you 340 drivers are wondering what a torch key is...well...never mind :-P

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Post by V6 Man » 05 Dec 2005 12:32 am

And the point of this thread is what exactly............?
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Post by 340GLT » 05 Dec 2005 12:37 am

Hmmm me thinks i will be pinching some Leds from college 2moro!!!!
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Post by Chesh740R » 05 Dec 2005 12:37 am

V6 Man wrote:And the point of this thread is what exactly............?
So that one can see where the lock is in the Fuel Filler Cap at night time which in turn aids you in not running out of petrol.

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Post by MJ » 05 Dec 2005 12:54 am

Ohh, well done getting that in there Chesh.

And James not sure what you mean about 340's. Our 340 has one of those, although it's our spare and only rarely gets used. Light dosn't work though.

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Post by foggyjames » 05 Dec 2005 01:05 am

It does? Oh bum, I thought it was a 360 only thing. You'll need to get the right batteries, and it needs to be a high intensity (preferably white) LED to be of any use.

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Post by 340GLT » 05 Dec 2005 01:19 am

Yeh i have one too!!! Came out of a 340 GL when i pinched the lock set!!!
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Post by MJ » 05 Dec 2005 01:27 am

Your's looks blue ;)

Did you have to mod the key, or would the batt and LED just slot in?

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Post by foggyjames » 05 Dec 2005 01:29 am

It's a tiny bit blue (mostly just the camera), but the blue ones are REALLY blue. I've had a blue one on my keyring for a while, but it's fairly useless, because the light is such a narrow bandwidth.

I'm not giving away 'the secrets of the key'...but it wasn't hard. It involved a touch of soldering, and getting lucky on the right sized batteries. If people really want, I can take pics of the process.

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Post by MJ » 05 Dec 2005 03:56 am

It's just that I'm the type of person who doesn't like doing anything irreversable :P

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Post by Duvel78 » 05 Dec 2005 04:01 am

Mmm I think the LED should be a little bit more inside... as the genuine bulb! But it's a very nice idea, I was also thinking about that and I'll do it :)
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Post by foggyjames » 05 Dec 2005 04:50 am

MJ...if you get spare 'guts' for one of these, it's a drop-in. You don't alter the key itself at all.

Aymat...your wish is my command...

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Post by foggyjames » 05 Dec 2005 05:00 am

Ok, since I'm still up....here are the innerds...

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There are two batteries stacked on top of one another, the lower one being restrained with a blob of blu-tac underneath to prevent a short. The 'sliding' goes on between the two batteries.

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Post by Chris_C » 06 Dec 2005 11:42 pm

I'd done this with Beast's key Fog's ;) Problem is the torch key never gets sold on, people seem to keep them as 'momento's' of there car. I've been trying to find someone that will cut the bit of metal that they cool a key on the end of it, so I can use Beast key on Kar, might just get a spare cut and dremel it to shape.
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Post by Cornholio » 07 Dec 2005 09:59 am

foggyjames wrote:It does? Oh bum, I thought it was a 360 only thing.
My 340 Redline has one too!!!
  • Affie - 1987 340 GL 1.7 - scrapped
  • Sausage - 1990 340 1.4 - banger raced
  • Rory - 1989 340 Image - broken
  • Brian - 1991 940 SE 2.0 Turbo Estate - murdered
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