{"id":3594,"date":"2014-03-17T20:13:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T04:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/led-strip-test-and-resinepoxy\/"},"modified":"2018-11-03T13:36:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:36:24","slug":"led-strip-test-and-resinepoxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/led-strip-test-and-resinepoxy\/","title":{"rendered":"LED Strip test and resin\/epoxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>Each time I wire up a new piece I test it to make sure I didn&#8217;t mess something up. Here is a test of 4 pieces, rainbow pattern:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k5YuGuGe90Q?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I did one section covered in the smooth on epoxy..it didn&#8217;t work so well. It was to liquidy and probably need more catalyst than what it says in order to cure a small thickness. The test piece sort of felt rubbery, and I forgot to add more. Rubbery might actually be good. The other resin I got was rock solid hard, so I&#8217;m trying it on a second piece (so far, it seems better, but it will need to dry overnight).<\/p>\n<p>On the first test piece with smooth on, I would add the epoxy and then try to cover it with clear packing tape to mold it into a curve. This was a mess\u2026.and frequently captured air bubbles underneath. Using the other casting resin worked <b>much<\/b> better (no pictures yet) with the same process.<\/p>\n<p>Worse, the first test piece sucked a bunch of stuff out via capillary action overnight:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_1002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_1002-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" alt=\"IMG_1002.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luckily it dries really slow (24+hours) so I could wipe off the overflow with acetone on a rag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each time I wire up a new piece I test it to make sure I didn&#8217;t mess something up. Here is a test of 4 pieces, rainbow pattern: I did one section covered in the&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/led-strip-test-and-resinepoxy\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-circus-and-silk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_1002.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8zn47-VY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5387,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions\/5387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}