Q on installing optics

[The Plague]

the stock lens from the maker of the leds will snap into the lens holder.


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[seansps]

It doesn't snap into the lense holder... at all.

[Firebird21]

I hope that at least ONE of these will help you.

If not I can take more.

Some photos...



The arrow points to where the lens seats in the Blade Holder (at arrow)





This is where it will stop if it is not seated correctly

This is Correct

You should be able to adjust it from here.



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[xwingband]

Good pics. It is indeed somewhat of a bear and takes some pushing. After I screwed it in though it was fine. As long as the notches are aligned just push the darn sucker in there.[]

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[scaarmor]

Ok, let me see if I understand this right...When trying to get the lens put into the lens holder, it is not snapping down into place correct?

If that is the case, When I got mine some time ago I had a problem with the optics too. Now the lens holder has little pegs that fit down into the star LED, after which the lens fits (cone down) into that mount with its little pegs going into the notchs in the mount. One side of the lens has a triangular peg and the other a little flat peg. The mount has two nothces for these to fit into. If trying to lock it in place by hand it doesnt always work, its more of a press fit. On mine the little flat peg wouldnt fit into either if the notches quite right so I shaved it very, very slightly till it would, the triangular one fit fine. After that I set the mount onto the LED and then set the lens (cone down) onto the mount aligning the nocthes and pegs. Then put the heatsink/LED/optics assembly into the blade hoder and pressed together to get it all to lock in place.

Here is a quick paint rendering to show how it goes together in case of confussion-

I hope I understood you correctly and this helps...

EDIT-Beaten to the punch again while typing, I knew I took to long to type...[]

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[wood7588]

When I built my first saber I had to really push to get the optics to lock into the holder. Just make sure the tab on the optic is lined up with the notch on the holder. Another thing that happened to me was that when I placed the holder on the led I did not position it correctly and it would not set down on the LED. If you look on the bottom to the holder it has a channel for the leads from the LED emitter. If you dont line up the channel over the leads is wont sit flat.

Edit - scaarmor beat me to the punch and did a much better explaination of what I was trying to say.

[seansps]

AWESOME!! thanks guys, the problem is that the peg is to big, i'm gonna need to grind it down a bit to get it to fit into place correctly, the pics were a big help!

[LAN-ED-TUL]

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Does the lense snap into the holder or just rest slightly?

If so, how does it stay in the lense holder and not get... crushed... by the blade holder?
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actually yes. the holder has tiny clips on it, and the lens snaps onto the top of holder and it stays there. you have to work it easily, so as not to break the tabs off, but once its seated it wont come loose.and ive always been able to snap them together by hand. now the holder itself just sits over the lux with the lil pegs resting in the cutouts. you do have to have this lined up exactly or it will not seat down all the way. and it has to clear on the sides with the nylon bolts that hold lux to heatsink.

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[captaindiversion]

First post here, so I would just like to say hello to everyone! This is my first saber project, and I am experiencing the same issue in regards to the optics not wanting to sit in the optic holder properly.

I have the same two tabs on the optics, but they do not want to fit into the notches of the optic holder. Should I remove them? There are two clips on the optic holder, so that should hold them in place I would imagine, but I wanted to know if anyone else has the optics with the tabs and what they did to secure to the optics holder.

[LAN-ED-TUL]

you shouldnt have to remove anything. it takes some patience and some strong fingers to get it seated./ mine have always been a bear to get seated, but i always manage it finally. keep tryin.

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