christmas-landscaping-lights

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:10:37 -0500

04DEC24 - My first attempt at using red and green gel filters on the landscaping lights failed miserably but I sort of expected that as all I did was lather some Vaseline on the lenses and then stuck the piece of gel filter on it. I think it took less than a couple hours for the damn Corpus wind to blow most of them off. Went out the next day to find them and was short a few.

So, I got to thinking and came up with a plan. I picked up a ten foot stick of 3" PVC and cut 18 3-inch pieces off it (the number of landscaping fixtures.) Painted them black, used the sander to clean up the filter edge, then I put Gorilla Glue all around the face of the pipe and stuck the filters on. I had to get more gel filters because the pipe was so much larger than the original gel cutouts.

Let 'em sit for a couple three or four hours, checked that they were attached snuggly, then took them all out and placed them over the landscaping lights and that's what you see in the photo. I was quite happy with how good the second batch turned out.