help with cibies refresh please

[martin aide]

Hi All,I have a set of hood cibies that I am hoping to put on my new toy,the problem is there is rust on the inside on the bottom half of the lamp,the rest of the light is fine infact I have just had the casing painted and the rings chromed.is there any hope for these,please tell me what to do,Thanks,Marty

[martin aide]

Does anyone know the answer to this?can you buy a replacement?Has anyone modified a new 8 inch sealed beam(last resort)?Thanks Marty

[Cornpanzer]

If you are speaking of the reflectors, you can have those re-plated

[kenikh]

Do you mean inside the lamp itself? Yes, there is hope (maybe). Is it really rust or just oxidation? You need to remove the lenses, for sure. There is one sure fire way to do this.

Buy a gallon of Jasco paint/epoxy stripper, put it in a LARGE bowl (I use pyrex baking bowls). You then put the lamp into the bowl lens down, soaking the white caulking that secures the lens in the housing and leave it there. You ay have to weight it down with a brick/piece of wood to maintain contact.

Every 24 hours, you will use a shop pick (looks like a screwdriver with the end sharpened to a point) to scrape away the softened material. After a few days, you will be able to work the lens free. Once free, you can send the reflector portion of the lamp into a glass shop that specializes in mirror resilvering. They can typically do the resto work. If your lamps are rusted through, though, there is nothing to resilver, so keep this in mind.

[martin aide]

Thanks guys,the sad part is the bottom half has some rust through,what if I put the glass and the back adjustment plate on a newer style light if I could find one that is the same size?Marty

[preS]

I have some old Cibie lenses (complete lamp units but not the buckets) if that is what you are looking for.

Richard

[martin aide]

my buckets and chrome are fine,its just the inside of the relective part of the lamp is bad,that sounds perfect ,could you pm your price,Thanks,Much,Marty Iam assuming yours are in better condition than mine!

[preS]

I will send you some pictures tomorrow and you can see whether they could be off use to you. I have no cibies on my car and am not into restoring these lights either.

Price will be very reasonable (I think).

Regards,

Richard