As part of an outdoor lighting project, I figure now’s the time to bite off one more lighting task: cleaning up 3 real RR lights, lamping them for 12v operation and installing them somewhere.
The first two were given to me by Dave Marconi (aka Hollywood), when we were at last year’s KOPS. Thanks again Dave for your generosity. Hard to believe Ken’s gone… these will remind me of him.
I’m guessing they’re signal lights? Anyone know about this type?
The first step was to disassemble, scrape out lots of putty and disintegrated gasket, and generally clean up.
Here’s the pile after cleaning, and chasing all the many rusty tapped holes. A couple screws I had to drill out, but thankfully they were brass. For the record (and for me to refer back to!), the blue lens was in back of the clear cone, and the clear lens was behind the yellow cone.
One of the side plates was missing, so I did a quick CAD model this afternoon, and will resin-print it. I’ll glue a plex stiffener in the inside, to help keep the part from warping.
The plan is to treat the rust areas and spray everything flat black.
For lights, I got a cheap 6-pack of LED floodlights, and will laser a bracket for one each to mount with existing interior tapped holes.
The other floodlights are for the other lantern, a 4-sided switch type. That’ll come later.
There’ll be several more steps to this, so I figger WTH, I’ll do a thread. Thanks for looking.
Cheers,
888:>Cliffy
