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Before I took out the blu diode I practiced on the red/IR one first and that one had the brittle cast metal that breaks easily but the blu one had super smooth curved metal that made it super hard to get a grip with anything.

I'm not giving up on all diodes on all sleds, just this one diode in this one sled. It's double heat sink is so weirdly shaped and hard to get off. It took a half hour of unsuccessful attempts before I took a drill bit and had to hammer it out, even that took a few minutes.

So I looked at the diode and there is a little piece of green "glass like" material that rattles around. I'm just going to go with an 805T already pressed, definitely broke it with my less then professional extraction methods.

I got it as small as I could get it, at least smaller then .5mm in diameter.

I was looking at the wrong diode the 805T should be around 120, this one 80-100. I have tried to burn tape but after a minute in the same spot it didn't leave the slightest hint of any damage.

I got a PHR-803T diode from a sled but when I put everything together is is super dim "120mw" 405nm on the right, 5mw 632 on the left I believe I cracked it on extraction as there are a lot of abstract shapes around the beam. The other problem is it doesn't focus. I can get a good dot at one...