Acrylic lenses for sale. These are laser cut from 0.06" transparent acrylic to match the size of the original lens. The colors are green, bronze, dark red, dark gray, and gray (smoke) as shown below.


The price is $6.50/lens or $30 for a set of all 5 colors plus shipping. Preferred payment method is PayPal.

Until I can get something else setup, you can order by PM'ing me on the BBS.

do you/will you have install pics?

I tried some this evening but with limited success. Here's the red lens. Can someone tell me who took or how the lens compare pictures were taken?

I'm pretty sure Tony took them.

These look pretty sweet!

Im glad there is another source for lenses, my smoke lens is getting pretty scratched up. When you get a chance could you post some more pics and info on shipping cost/ other costs ?

No problem, the pics will take a little while but I should have an idea of shipping costs for the US and Europe this week. I would guess it will be a few dollars for either location.

Yeah, Tony took those photos. I remember it being tricky for him to capture everything, but I'm sure he'd fill you in. You will sell a ton of these at that price!

On a side note, has anyone played with the idea of drilling a hole by the LED so that it pulses a differant color than the rest of the player?

Playing is the operative word but the laser cutting does provide some interesting possibilities.

Cool. Now I like that idea... you could blank out the flahing blue light...

Sean in NC

you could blank out the flahing blue light...

You could always just do that with hijack...

Matthew

Those are some sweet looking lenses!!! Any plans for any additional colors?

I'd like to add different colors but its more a limitation of acrylic supply. There doesn't seem to be a large demand for 0.06" acrylic so suppliers don't carry it and getting even a small run made requires pruchasing 20 4x6 sheets. Trust me, no one needs that many lenses.

You should have a PM from me. If you don't, let me know and I'll send another

I've PM'd Mach about comparison photos... Long story short, it was so much work that I'm loath to do it again.

Mach, set up an e-commerce web site with the lenses and I'll link it from the top of the BBS.

Working on it. I'm going to short circuit the lens photos though. Your photo fu is stronger than mine.

I've tried a couple of times to get some decent photos of the lenses. I'm very sure that Tony has a great deal more patience than I do.

Below is the acrylic color key for the plastic that's being used. Smoke is 103-2. Dark smoke is 104-1 and Bronze is 131-2. The smoke color is the same as that shown on Lens Compare. Dark Smoke is slightly darker and Bronze is slightly browner. The degree of similarity/difference is equivalent to the color swatch. The Deep Red and Deep Green colors appear to be the same as the ones on the Lens Compare page.

If you order a lens and feel you didn't get what you expected, contact me and we'll work something out.

To everyone who has PM'd me, thanks. I'm still working out the kinks so it may be a couple of days before I get back to you.

I tried a different approach to generating lens install images.

I've re-touched the smoke lens pictures from the lens compare page to approximate the color of the Dark Smoke and Bronze lenses. This is how they look to me. The other images are the same as the Lens Compare page. I've included the plastic colors to better illustrate the difference.

Very cool!

Greetings!

These look great! I am extremely happy with my order! Thanks again!!!

Paul.

Got my bloody order this morning and I'm very angry... not with him, with every other supplier I use for not being as fast as he is!

This guy's a star.

Superb product, great price, stonkingly fast delivery.

Now if I can just get an amber lens, I'd be an even happier puppy

Both of you - post pics!!!!

Can't beat the price!

Awesom Job! I just received my dark smoke lense today, and although these pics do the lense no justice this is my best attempt. One is with the flash and the other is without.

I got my order last week and I am really happy too. I am now using the red one, which looks nice with the instrumentation.
Great great job!
Bravo!

Thanks guys, and thanks to everyone who has ordered lenses. I'm very pleased by the response as we've clipped through most of the first batch of lenses faster than I expected. I'll post a link to the order pages hopefully next week so ordering will be a little easier.

With the exception of 2 orders, all orders have been shipped. I'm out of complete sets of lenses so I'm going to stop taking orders for now. Another batch of lenses and the website for ordering should be available soon.

Many thanks to everyone who ordered.

Well, thank *you*! Absolutely appreciated!

Well, I found somewhere to park this afternoon a little in the shade and snapped a few shots off with my camera. Here's what my green lens looks like, with and without flash... bloody superb These lenses are an absolute bargain. Kudos Mach.

I got my local halfords to make me up an aerosol of bright orange paint mixed with clear lacquer (ratio 10% to 90%). I have used this mix before to tint rear lights and the results are rather good. I'm going to attempt modifying the bronze lens to be amber - if it works, I'll post the results



Edit: Amber experiment didn't work, need a deeper orange - luckily I tested on a piece of glass first Might get a deeper colour, but at £10 a can, it's a bit of an expensive experiment...

the lenses do look really great. I am wondering if there is any kind of trick or something to make sure that buttons dont stick after installing one of these lenses. I am specfically having trouble with my top pause button and the bottom button. Am I tightening these the bolts too much/ too little?

The trick is to break the bottom corner of the lense next to the down button. Yeah, just snap it off, you can't see it with the face on the empeg anyway. (well actually i did that by accident while trying to trim around the down button... but hey it works!)

I am wondering if there is any kind of trick or something to make sure that buttons dont stick after installing one of these lenses.

Yes. Click here.