Broken Blue-ray window

[rog8811]

Today I stripped out 2 of DDL's group buy Blue-rays, fitted them into Aixiz housings, connected them to a dual LM317 driver board set to 10ma and got 2 glowing jems, adjustment to 39ma a channel had them nice and bright .

When I put the lenses in place one of the bluies was easy to get to a nice tight dot.......The other one had the messiest dot I have ever seen .

Close investigation with an eye loupe shows it has a broken window, around half the glass is missing! I have got to think that this is a manufacturing fault as I cannot see the bits inside and, unless it had broken into a number of pieces the bezel round the aperture would have kept it in place.

Has anyone been successful in somehow removing the remains of a broken window? (I did try a search but anything over 3months old gives me a 404 error).

Regards rog8811

*Edit...moved to correct forum... : and picture added...I could not get a good photo so this has been massaged by hand to show that the break looks to be the radius of the window and offset....

 

[MarioMaster]

i removed the window on my bluray, i took a cutting wheel on my dremel to the sides just until the wall was very thin, then it just popped off with a pair of pliers, the laser perfectly in tact

 

[rog8811]

I have already mounted it in the Aixiz so I cannot get at it with my dremel I would probably knack it getting it out again....
Out of interest why did you have to remove your window?

Regards rog8811

 

[MarioMaster]

well if you don't wanna pop it out of the axiz module it's gonna be a real pain to open. i took the window off my bluray after i snapped the VLD pin off

 

[rog8811]

I was big and brave and I used a jewelers screwdriver to break out more of the glass. It worked , there is still a slight line through the dot but you need to look hard to see it.

Regards rog8811