![]() Needle nose pliers help to pull the lip back and get the ridge of the housing seated nicely in that groove you cut earlier with the X-acto knife. You can then work the housing into the top of the handle, which will require some massaging and stretching of the silicone. Pull the wires out the bottom and keep your fingers wedged under the washer until the bottom of the LED comes flush with the top of the washer. Position the housing so that the wires are directly across from each other on either side of the washer, then feed them around the edge of the washer and straight down through the small hole in the bottom of the Pom. I've found this part is easiest if I hold the handle such that my thumb and middle finger wedge between the underside of the washer and the top rim of the Pom - this should prevent the washer from slipping back into the handle while you work. Pick up the PomGrip and use pliers or your fingers to pull the washer up, allowing room to insert the wired housing. Now would be a good time to make sure the LED works - press on the bottom of the light until it clicks, then turn it off once you've confirmed it's still functional. Gently push the electrical tape-protected LED back into the housing as far as it will go (the wire will prevent it from going all the way in). Do the same with another length of wire through the other two holes, then repeat for the second handle.įold both sets of twisted wires on each handle up so the ends meet, and trim them with the wire cutters so the lengths are roughly equal. Thread the wire in one hole and out an adjacent hole, pull so the ends are matched up in length, then grab both ends with the pliers and twist the wire down until there's a small triangular gap of about 1/2" between the bottom of the twist and the housing. If you haven't already, take your poking device - I use sharp, thin tweezers - and poke four evenly-spaced holes in the center of the ridge ringing each light housing. You'll start by cutting four 8" lengths of jewelry wire (two per handle). As the time-consuming nature of this step is the only significant ongoing disadvantage of the handle, I'm open to any alternatives you guys can come up with! The only way I've found to guarantee that the light will stay in the PomGrip when you drop your poi is to strap it in with wire. ![]() No need to get too crazy with the sewing here, just make sure the loop can't slip off the washer when you wiggle it around. To make sure the loop doesn't slip off, I sew the loop end to the straight part of the loop it's pressing against and run a few stitches through the center of the washer and back. Stick the tip of the loop through a washer and fold it back and over the washer. Next, pull the loop through the bottom of a PomGrip - it's easier to work with if you continue to pull until the swivel pops temporarily into the bottom of the handle. ![]() I've found that one inch sticking out the bottom of the handle (before the swivel) is a good length to hold on to while spinning, so I marked out two inches with a ruler, cut my handle there, and sewed the ends back together. Trim and then re-sew the ends of your loop handles to your desired length, noting that approximately one inch will be inside the handle when you're done wrapping it around the washer. The lip of the NiteIze housing should slot into this nicely later. When you're finished, you should have a groove about 1/16" wide going around the inside of each handle. This part requires some finesse if you don't want to totally shred your handle, so start slow and shallow and then cut deeper if need be. You can use pliers to pull this strip out once you've mostly detached it with the knife. Once you have those two cuts, you can stick your knife into the top cut at an angle till it's almost flat against the inside of the Pom, then work it around to slice under that strip of silicone between the parallel cuts. Start your cut just below this ridge and turn the handle with your other hand to make a shallow cut all the way around, then move the knife down about 1/16" (roughly the width of that ridge ringing the top) and make another parallel cut all the way around. If you feel on the inside of your PomGrip, you'll notice a slight ridge ringing the large opening on top. The SpotLit light housing is juuust silghtly too large to fit comfortably inside an unaltered PomGrip, so it helps a lot to carve a groove on the inside of the handle with an X-Acto knife.
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