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GP headlight
Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:24 am
by red ghost
What's the preferred method to seperate the glass from the reflector?
Re: GP headlight
Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 5:32 pm
by andylaw7
knock it off the shelf in the shed

Re: GP headlight
Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 10:15 pm
by red ghost
Already tried that one, still finding little shards off glass.
Re: GP headlight
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 8:33 am
by mcbrid
Its a real bar steward of a job that involves laboriously picking and gouging the sealant out by hand until there is no stiction keeping the lens in and you can break the two apart.
Good chance you'll break it anyway and then you have to reseal afterwards without getting silicon all over the reflector and glass inside.
Have fun!
Re: GP headlight
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:30 pm
by TS1-200
I found a Dremel with a cut off disc works well.
Re: GP headlight
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:47 pm
by Andy Pickering
Unless its a NOS headlight I wouldnt fcuk about..theres a few remade good ones about right now but not a Kace..

Why do you want to separate it has the chrome peeled away...is there no one in Aus that sells em..?,what about a hairdryer to melt the sealant and a stanley blade to separate when it goews gooey..?
Re: GP headlight
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 11:11 pm
by red ghost
Lam46 wrote:Unless its a NOS headlight I wouldnt fcuk about..theres a few remade good ones about right now but not a Kace..

Why do you want to separate it has the chrome peeled away...is there no one in Aus that sells em..?,what about a hairdryer to melt the sealant and a stanley blade to separate when it goews gooey..?
There may one ot two shops that sell them, but it still works out cheaper to buy from the UK
As for why, just playing around and I'm not going to tell cause it may not work and look crap and some grown-up might tell me off

Re: GP headlight
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 11:39 pm
by Andy Pickering
red ghost wrote:just playing around and I'm not going to tell
Twin headlights..

, thought about that often..

one of the autos as this and looks cool as feck...