We had a TC foglamp with a badly tarnished reflector that did not "swish"
clean. We gave the unit to a caring, ultra-careful machinist who chucked the
unit in a lathe and cut the reflector away where it met the glass (having
first carefully noted some indexing marks so it would go back in the same
place.
Then we had the reflector re-silvered professionally. After it came back, we
placed it in position on the glass and epoxied it back in place with a thin
layer of JB Weld around the outside. After several years of use it is still
holding up well.
Lawrie
British Sportscar Center
www.britcars.com
-----Original Message-----
From: TATERRY@aol.com <TATERRY@aol.com>
To: bmckarney@thegrid.net <bmckarney@thegrid.net>; CFritz7001@aol.com
<CFritz7001@aol.com>
Cc: mg-tabc@egroups.com <mg-tabc@egroups.com>; mg-t@autox.team.net
<mg-t@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, January 30, 2000 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] Re: Headlights (Plating / Resilvering) of reflectors
>We have a similarly made lamp on the Arnolt...it is made by Marchal of
>France. They are hard to find and expensive becasue they were used on
>Ferrari's and Maser's. Some folks has successfully pried the folded over
>metal up enough so that the glass can be removed and the reflector
>re-silvered, the the glass is crimped back into place. Not a job for the
>faint hearted!!! But worth saving a rare item. You might try swishing
>"Tarnx" silver rrestoring solutin on the reflector and give it the
dishwasher
>treatment per McCarney....
>Good luck
>Terry
>
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