lighting up a Stoner Senior

[rayg]

Hi,

Just wanted to share the way I lite up my Stoner Senior (daily driver..not a show piece). I did it because  I like stoner and coin ops that light up, also I doubt that I would ever get "Theater model"

Since space in these is limited and I was concerned with  heat, I went with LED's as a light source. What I decided to use was  Side View Flexible LED Light Strip 18 LEDs per ft. at the cost of $8.35 per ft it cost $16.70 + $9.00 shipping for a total of $25.70. A small transformer 9~12 vdc) is need but I have some many laying round, I didn't need to by one. I know it's not a theater but it does lite up and looks cool.   Also, no harm was done  o the machine.


http://www.ledlightsworld.com/side-view-flexible-led-light-strip-18-leds-p-133.html

[tkaz]

Looks great to me, and can't complain about the heat coming off the LED's; nice work!

[mznb1u]

Ray,

That machine turned out great.  I like the way you did the lights and that would have been what I would have recommended!

Can you post some pics of the machine in better light--would love to see the finished product.

  Tim

[rayg]

 Tim,

I will add pictures,  but it looks better in low light  , I wound up spraying it with cans of light blue metallic  Hammerite, but a trick I got from a paint guy helped out, he had me sand it all down with 600 grid sand paper  to give it a nice even look and then spray it with multiply layers of auto clear coat. I just clear up the  inside and got the coin mech to work on a 10 or 15 cents. Jim and others have all been very helpful!


PS thanks for selling it to me !

[Creighton]

Looks great!! Will be doing something similar on a Canteen one of these days.
Creighton

[SIGNGUY]

Looks awesome, and great idea. I wanted to do some sort of lights in my stoner Jr I'm redoing and this is the ticket... thanks for the link also!

[rayg]

Here's some more pic's...  please be kind, I know it not up to Jim's or Curtis standards,(expert level) but not bad for a "Daily Driver" at (novice level)  
The last pic is the before shot taken by Tim
also kept the mirror original, I think it adds to the used not restored machine look I was going for.

[briandr1]

Looks great to me I would love to have it
gotta love the led lights good idea

[Jim]

Very nice Ray!
The lights really look cool ! ! !

[mznb1u]

Nice work Ray!

  Tim

[Larry]

Ray,

I like my stuff to light up also.  Thanks for the idea.  Machine turned out nice.

Did you use pure white or warm white?  How did you mount the strip?  Where'd you run your wire through?

Thanks,

Larry.

[memorylane]

Larry I use the warm lighting but there are two different brightness of warm. They look great. The led lighting has come along way.

[Larry]

Thanks!!

[johnieG]

The LED's look really good! the paint job looks great too!

[rayg]

Hi Larry,

I when with the pure white side view  to give it more of a fluorescent light look.  The strips is flexible and is cut to length and come with a 3M adhesive backing . It's only 8MM wide 1/3" so it fit nicely along the open of the candy display holder. I left a "service loop" for open and closing the door and candy display.  My stoner has a open back base so I ran it thought a 1/8' hole and out the back to a 12 vdc switchable transformer.

 You can get really fancy with these lights beside coming in warm or pure white they also come tri-color (RGB) .  To control them you can also get a dimmer or a remote for some special  effects and to programmed a light show  including a chaser lights mode, ..... all for around under $75. 

Thank you all for your kind remarks    this was my first "restore project", not counting rewiring a few pinball machines. It was allot of fun, everyone was great and helpful!

Ray

[RC kid]

Very cool!