{"id":1590,"date":"2015-12-22T15:03:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T14:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atomicalex.com\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2018-01-19T17:57:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T16:57:49","slug":"bubble-shifter-illuminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomicalex.com\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"Bubble shifter, illuminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"uid1\">Last week, I posted a photo of an IKEA Lyster curtain rod end. This morning, battling an epic headache of no known origin, I remembered to take some more pics and a video to explain the whole thing. Remember, this was done at least twelve years ago (likely closer to fifteen), and that I have no shame whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p id=\"uid2\">I wanted a glass doorknob for a shifter in the B5. Kind of boring, but functional. I didn\u2019t like the shifter on the car as it was delivered. It was even more boring. I never did find a cool glass doorknob, but wandering through IKEA, I found the Lyster bit, and a short call to my dad later netted me a threaded-to-fit stainless steel adapter. This happened.<\/p>\n<p id=\"uid6\" class=\"has-image media-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"tag-d17uK2-73\" src=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/ercx3eue5l3iqlrrhfkj.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"uid7\">Then, because nothing entertains me like a bunch of glowing LEDs, this happened.<\/p>\n<p id=\"uid14\" class=\"has-image media-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"tag-d17uK2-77\" src=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/p4vzyvbxzbdzz0bphc0t.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"uid5\">&#8230;and this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Illuminated bubble ball shifter\" width=\"627\" height=\"353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/biDSmJKFgDQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yup, I wired it into the dash dimmer properly. Unfortunately, the acrylic Lyster bits are a bit fragile and I get about a year out of each one before the base cracks off. Now, I run the rubber shifter knob out of my old Rabbit Convertible. It\u2019s a bit more cold-weather friendly. Reverse is in the wrong place, but that is a topic for another post.<\/p>\n<p id=\"uid11\">The whole shebang kept the denizens of ClubB5.com entertained for a while, because no car is sacred and this was good for April Fool\u2019s if nothing else.<\/p>\n<p id=\"uid10\">Anyway, about four or five years later, I was wandering around a Murray\u2019s looking for something, and discovered that my utterly fabulous knob was now a thing. Battery LEDs, but a thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I posted a photo of an IKEA Lyster curtain rod end. This morning, battling an epic headache of no known origin, I remembered to take some more pics and a video to explain the whole thing. Remember, this was done at least twelve years ago (likely closer to fifteen), and that I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-chemistry","category-style"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomicalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomicalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomicalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomicalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomicalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atomicalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"https:\/\/atomicalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomicalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomicalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomicalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}