Like many others I was extremely bummed to learn that Aveo stopped manufacturing their overhead light that had both white and red lights built-in. After unsuccessfully searching for surplus or used lights I gave up and settled on the EyeBeam Mini with white light only. I loved the touch sensitive On/Off and Intensity selection but needed a way to make it work for night flying. So here we are nearly two years after my build, um yeah I’m not much of a night pilot with just one early morning dark departure from Las Vegas to date, and I finally got around to tackling this project. So if you need to make your EyeBeam Mini lights red here is how I went about it.
![1. For material I bough 1/8" (3mm) Dark Red Translucent Acrylic Plexiglass Sheet 12"x12" from Amazon for about 10 bucks](http://www.strikhedonia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Light-Lens-Material-2000-scaled.jpg)
![2. Covering an 1.25" hole saw drill bit with aluminum foil tape and covered an 18mm socket with the same material to reach a diameter of 0.98"](http://www.strikhedonia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Light-Lens-Hole-Saw-2000.jpg)
![3. With the 2.5" x 2.5" square piece of acrylic resting on the socket, it was baked at 350 degrees for 15 minutes](http://www.strikhedonia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Light-Lens-Oven-2000.jpg)
![4. After being heated up, oil is spread over the acrylic to help the hole saw press the material over the socket](http://www.strikhedonia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Light-Lens-Forming-2000-scaled.jpg)
This is a nice tight fit and after a half dozen flights with a few bumps the lens covers have not come off due to turbulence or time. Actually it takes a pretty good pull to pop them off.
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