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Originally Posted by dmhenderson I would still recommend against doing this yourself unless you are extremely "handy". It is extremely easy to mess your lights up beyond repair. It shouldn't

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Old 12-05-2012, 02:07 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I would still recommend against doing this yourself unless you are extremely "handy". It is extremely easy to mess your lights up beyond repair.
It shouldn't be if you do it the right way though, which I've found out we didn't. Temp was too high. Safer to go with lower temp and longer time in the oven. I think we were supposed to be around 200-210, but we were doing it at like 250. If we had it at the right temp, we wouldn't have had to put it in lens down.
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It shouldn't be if you do it the right way though, which I've found out we didn't. Temp was too high. Safer to go with lower temp and longer time in the oven. I think we were supposed to be around 200-210, but we were doing it at like 250. If we had it at the right temp, we wouldn't have had to put it in lens down.
Even so - most of us are college-educated, fairly intelligent people and we had lots of problems.
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Even so - most of us are college-educated, fairly intelligent people and we had lots of problems.
Well the only real problem was the melting....which was caused by the high temp. The temp we set based on experimental evidence from the previous time we did it and it went smoothly. Seems logical to me. Still don't know why ours melted that day and not the first day.
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