Lighting for Cab

[John Andrews 2Participant @johnandrews2]

I have rigged up lighting for the cab of my new 2-8-0 Baldwin 5 inch gauge using strips of LEDs (the kind you put in the kitchen cupboard), but because the boiler projects so far back into the cab, I cannot see the gauge glasses, and cannot get these LEDs any further to the rear so as to shine on the glasses.

Someone showed me a photo of a Victorian Railways steam loco cab which had lights at the side of each gauge glass, projected via a slit in a pipe onto the glass.

Does anyone have a photo of this arrangement, or something similar, or indeed any other suggestions for lighting the glasses? (There is an arrangement in the latest Australian Model Engineer for lighting the glass of a traction engine, but this is too large for this model)

Thanks

John A

[John Andrews 2Participant @johnandrews2]

[pgk pgkParticipant @pgkpgk17461]

I'm too much the novice to be familiar with your problem but 2 thoughts spring to mind.. fibre light guides (possibly inside thin tubing to point them) or if it;s possible to acess the dials under the glass then flourescent paint then shine a wide beam UV source from further back (cheap UV torches on ebay I used with flourescein dyes to highlight corneal defects). Lastly it's possibe to use simple thin perspex rod as a light guide rather than real fibres.. again bend to shape with a distant source.

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