Machine gun

[afv]

here's one i thought i'd have a go at,
took the plastic machine gun out and drilled down the centre with a few micro drills, ending up with a hole 1mm dia,
put some 1mm fibre optic cable through the barrel so that about 1mm sticks out the end,
slightly roughed up the 1mm that sticks out so transmits light to the side as well as the front,and fitted to the hull with enough fibre optic out the back of the gun to reach three quarters the way down the tank, it's long because i'll use the original wiring from the turret machine gun led and the led
removed the led and made a light box using different sizes of heat shrink
done a rough coupling up and it seem to work fine
posted a few pictures, probably make more sense than i've done

regards Jack.

[tiger205]

ingenious mod jack, must of been a pain in the arse drilling through the MG though

            Tony

[tiger205]

i'm sure youre right jack, a job not for the faint hearted, me i would of chickened out and got a bit of tube and used that

              Tony

[madforce]

hi jack,
        very nice being a bit dull but what is the fiber optic wired up to? is there a led on the other end?, i would like to try this myself but didnt  get how to power the optic cable. realy good though
                                                regards martin

[tankman]

Good idea I like it.
Alan

[971wright]

Hi There Great idea you could connect 2 the same way .where did you get the fibre optic cable .

regards pete