<div dir="auto">My red behives are coated red and chipping at base. Will send photos when I find the box. I am insulating my shop and everything has been moved<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Ira Erbs<br>1959 AH 100-6<br>1967 MGB<br>Milwaukie, OR</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 9:46 AM Ricchardd Mayor via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">I suspect the “original Lens” on your 1960 BT7 was an original clear lens that someone - during the last 62 years - painted it red. Red Lucas beehive lens are red glass - not painted.<div><br></div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 27, 2022, at 9:25 AM, Michael Salter via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">This is very odd.<span> </span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Like Mark and Perry I have never encountered red beehive lenses with paint on them.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Is the paint on the inside or the outside?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">I would have thought that if they were to be painted by Lucas, of which I'm very doubtful, the paint would have been on the inside.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Can you confirm that the painted lenses have the word LUCAS cast on them and L594?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">M<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 11:54 AM Harold Manifold via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Update on restoring Lucas beehive lens. The original lens on my 1960 BT7 were painted glass and the paint had peeled noticeably on one of the lens. I used a common paint stripper I had on hand to remove all of the original red paint. I first tried to recoat with paint for stained glass from a hobby store. It did not work well and was a poor colour match. For the second attempt I used VHT Nite-Shades which is lens paint. Who would have thought! It worked very well. Picture attached.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">My total cost is about $30 which may be more than new but I was able to use original parts.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Harold<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:medium none;padding:0in"><b>From:<span> </span></b><a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">i erbs via Healeys</a><br><b>Sent:<span> </span></b>Saturday, February 5, 2022 7:09 PM<br><b>To:<span> </span></b><a href="mailto:healeyguy@aol.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Perry Small</a><br><b>Cc:<span> </span></b><a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">healeys</a><br><b>Subject:<span> </span></b>Re: [Healeys] Restoring Lucas L594 Lens</p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">I have two red behive lenses and the red is in fact peeling off.</p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Ira Erbs<br>1959 AH 100-6<br>1967 MGB<br>Milwaukie, OR</p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Feb 5, 2022, 3:12 PM Perry Small via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Harold</p><div><p class="MsoNormal">After seeing Marks response I reread your email. The Lucas red lens were made of red glass not coated. True, the red color varies. </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Photo attached.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Perry</p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Harold,</span></p><div><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Your comment about the colour ‘peeling off’ puzzles me.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">I agree that the red beehive lens does come in a small variety of shades – some quite dark – but mine are all red glass right through. <b>No red coating</b>.</span></p><div><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Mark</span></p><div><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Ardmore</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">NZ</span></p><div><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><br></div><div><div style="border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Harold Manifold <<a href="mailto:manifold@telus.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">manifold@telus.net</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 5 February 2022 2:49 PM<br><b>To:</b> Ken Fleming via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">healeys@autox.team.net</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [Healeys] Restoring Lucas L594 Lens</p></div></div><div> <br></div><p class="MsoNormal">Hello,</p><div> <br></div><p class="MsoNormal">I have 4 red original glass Lucas L594 Red Beehive tail light lens. Unfortunately no two match. The colour is either different, <span style="background-image:none;background-color:yellow;background-position:0% 0%;background-repeat:repeat repeat">faded or starting to peel off.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Has anyone has good success stripping the old red and then recoating with a new red?</p><div> <br></div><p class="MsoNormal">I know you can buy new but these are original and I would like to reuse them. Any tips or suggestions are appreciated. What type of coating is recommended.</p><div> <br></div><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks….. 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