Edward, one method of retaining the brass as it is and to stop it shorting out is to coat it with a lacquer. You can either use a spray lacquer or paint on a clear gel coat nail varnish such as Sally Hansen's Double Duty. If you use the DD, give it a couple of days to get to a rock hard finish. I have used this in various aspects for clocks, it makes great crystal clear lenses for LEDs embedded in brass mounts if you build it up slowly over a couple of days, to make diffuser lenses just agitate two part clear epoxy to include micro air bubbles in it and this gives great dispersion of the LED light.
I get some weird looks from the staff at my local pharmacy when I am asking them for clear nail varnish but they are getting used to me asking for strange stuff. It is a good place to get small amounts of chemicals for other applications too. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/79ef70e0-4d43-48bf-9516-61d6d595d0bf%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
