Surgery On An LED To Preserve Vintage Aesthetics - Hackaday

An indicator LED off an old piece of stereo equipment had failed.

It was a strange rectangular type for which he could source no modern substitute.

[Chris] tried soldering a small SMD LED between the legs of the existing part, which was open circuit.

It worked, but the light didn’t really propagate to the top of the LED’s plastic.

Unperturbed, [Chris] instead elected to cut the LED apart.

However, installed back inside the stereo, it’s a perfectly stealth fix that looks great.