Malcolm Gordon Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 For an upcoming production we need to use an old-style two bar electric fire, the type with an exposed wound element on porcelain, not the quartz type (it is set in the 1950s). We have the fire but I need to make it practical (safely), from a visual point of view not as a heat source, as it is sometimes switched on and sometimes not. I seem to recall a reference in a recent thread to a method of achieving this, but cannot now find it. Can anyone point me in the right direction, please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddSocks Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 I too thought I had seen a thread about this and here it is :D http://www.blue-room.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=65664&st=0&p=528470&hl=fire&fromsearch=1entry528470 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 Maybe another job for led flexible strip, a tube of red gel and some loose winds of wire? LED strips seems useful things for all kinds of stuff now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.elsbury Posted May 21, 2016 Share Posted May 21, 2016 Led tape for the colour and EL wire for the wire so it can glow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcolm Gordon Posted May 22, 2016 Author Share Posted May 22, 2016 Thank you for the thread link, which I now recall, although I thought that I had seen it alluded to more recently. It didn't come up for me on a BR search. It seems that it is necessary to use Google to search back that far. Thanks also for the other suggestions. LED tape and EL wire will be new experiences for me; I hope the learning curve isn't too steep. Sadly Steve's Dropbox links no longer work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.elsbury Posted May 22, 2016 Share Posted May 22, 2016 The blue room search is positively awful since the software was upgraded years ago. Best to use Google and add " site:blue-room.org.uk " to the end. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsabre Posted May 22, 2016 Share Posted May 22, 2016 Forget EL wire, it is only bright enough to be seen in a blackout. And you can't see the wire on the wirewound heaters unless you look really closely anyway.Some red LED tape in a frosted tube (e.g. rolled up frost gel) will look very realistic - plenty on ebay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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