Rusty Bowtie
General Category => Early Chevy/GM Discussion => Topic started by: Coley on May 16, 2024, 11:09:44 PM
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I am doing them again as there seems to be a need for them. If you ever bought a new lens for one, you probably noticed that there was a gasket, hollow riveted to the back side of it. Ever ponder about how well that gasket sealed the housing from the car wash or a good rain?? Guess what....it doesn't seal anything. I am just finishing up the tooling to cast them in a hard black plastic. The only thing the gasket does is cushion the glass against the 2 small tabs that the 2 screws go into to hold the lens on!!!!!
I have been a Chevy owner and mechanic for over almost 65 years. My initials are GMC. I owned a lot of Chevys from 1956 to today, my current ride is a 2006 Chevy HHR. I don't buy a Chevy until it has at least 150,000 miles on it. I then drive them to around 3 to 400,000 miles. The HHR had 229,265 miles on it. Fun car and not too bad to work on.
I will bring news of the housings when they are ready to go.
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Fun to see someone's thinking about the small details. I've wondered about the amount of
sealing some obviously dysfynctional lamp seals do.
Last saturday I was at a small swap meet and scored a couple small crhomed lamps,
thinking they might look good as front turn signals on my Buick. No lenses in them, though,
so I'll have to be creative...
They were cheap. Cheap is my middle name.
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I am the same way. I have been doing all my own work for so long If you ever thought about it there are some very good urethanes and epoxies that cast very well in plaster molds for making your own lenses. If you can find one that fits and you like it, make some up of your own.
In my casting business, I have been asked to reproduce a lot of items and not all of them automotive.
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To be honest, I never thought of casting my own lenses, but I'll kep it in
mind. It would be cool to have home made custom ones, though.
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I am also working on making new plastic lenses for the license light, on the 1936 tail light housings. There seems to be a real shortage of 1936 parts.
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True but try finding '26 Chevy parts. ;D
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sixball, I had to check, when you talk about parts availability.
According to "reliable sources" (read: Internet). about 14 times more 1926 Chevrolets were
manufactured than Marquettes in the makes short history. I'm in luck though, since I'm not
using any original parts on my "Buick", which is really a Marquette.
(http://www.waasadata.com/buick/img/buick000f.jpg)
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Sorry for interrupting. Go on doing what you did.
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No problem. Looks like a nice project.