I think that the easiest thing for me to do is just to remove the LED completely from the box so I can work on it...I drilled the hole precise enough that the LED body fits snugly to be held in without glue, therefore I can just pop it out to apply the shrink tubing or solder the wiring without risk of *&%!#ing up my box....
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