headlight stamping restoration

[rustynuts]

is there anyone who can re-etch (restore) worn out headlamp stampings.

[Chris Haynes]

Check with jewelry repair shops and ask for the name of a good engraver.

[Glenn]

i sent my headlight to be re stored and chromed and re etched to Paul's Plating and it came out fantastic

http://www.paulschrome.com/

[46CHF]

beware

While I truely believe Pauls Chrome is the best out there, a word of warning. I sent a pristine motolamp bucket for chrome and they ground off the rivits for the mounting bracket and gave it back to me in 2 peices with screws to reassemble it with, the screws have smaller head diameters than the original rivits and instead of drilling out rivits they used a grinder and scuffed up the bracket inside the bucket. Had they told me they were going to molest my vintage original bucket i would have opted for paint. So still looking for another motolamp bucket,lessen learned. The chrome and engraving was top notch though!

[Robert Luland]

While passing over this subject. Does anybody here know of someone that can reinstall the rivets in guide headlights and signal lights? Bob L

[micmac]

also on this subject, who does re-silvering? I believe that is the name of the process to replenish the reflector.

[Rollo]

head light resilvering

One of my buddies here just had one redone for a 48 pan and I am getting ready to give him ( Stephen Polosky) two more for me at Metro Plating and Polishing 4110 Howard Av. Kensington MD. 20895 301-493-4009 or 800-938-5811. He is experienced with these and work looks first rate. Price was $75. Other AMCA guys in the area use him as well.

Tom Hardy (Rollo)
AMCA #12766

[micmac]

Thanks Rollo, heck I was in Westminster, Md Thursday.

[rustynuts]

stamping refurbished

stipped, cleaned and polished the bucket- detailed the engraving with a dental pick- etch primed with phosphoric acid and dipped in enamel. looks great!

[Chris Haynes]

While passing over this subject. Does anybody here know of someone that can reinstall the rivets in guide headlights and signal lights? Bob L

Colony make rivet replacement kits for both headlamps and spotlamps. They are bolts with a rivet head on them. Just bolt them together and nobody is the wiser.

[GrandpasHarley]

Brass Headlamp

stipped, cleaned and polished the bucket- detailed the engraving with a dental pick- etch primed with phosphoric acid and dipped in enamel. looks great!

Was this a brass headlamp.. or a later steel one?

[Chris Haynes]

Was this a brass headlamp.. or a later steel one?

I have always found the brass headlamps were chromed and steel were painted.

[T. Cotten]

I found a O.D. Cycle-Ray in a parking field the day after a local auction. Some tractor fellow must have decided it wasn't important.

There was some rust pitting in the worst place: the point of the bucket where the stamp is, and nearly obliterated it.
I had no problem smearing some spot filler into the pits and stamp, and then removing it from just the stamp with a toothpick, before it hardened. After repeating the procedure a few times, the lettering became quite distinct, and took paint well enough for my rat.

I'm certain that any one of you could do better, but I hate to paint with anything but a brush.

....Cotten