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How do I shorten the length of a "Line of Fire"?

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How do I shorten the length of a "Line of Fire"?

I want to buy it off of Billy down the street, but we put it up to my tailgate and its about 4 inches to long. Do you know if I could just chop off the one side or both sides? The only thing is, if I do both sides, would it be pretty easy to re attach the wire connector back to the leds? If I do the one side, I'll loose 3 leds.

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i too have wondered about this.. cause its 49" or watever and our stepies are like 46".. lameness


but yea if anyone knows of a safe way to cut it down that be awsome
 
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Good Luck on that one! I tried and screwed the whole thing up.
 
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Good Luck on that one! I tried and screwed the whole thing up.

ok, then i guess i won't buy it then, fooey.
 
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Won't work, as you will mess up the lens and circuit board. You could either make your own, use an EL strip instead of LED's, or do the same thing I did until they make a flareside fire strip. http://silvertank.batcave.net/FireStrip.html
 
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wat i am kinda thinking, you could dremel out the sides under the tailgate to the size of the strip and it could stick past it on both sides so it could ift...? maybe.. never seeing what one looks like up close doesnt help either
 
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