Re: Fwd: Re: Clear Lights

[T Berk <tberk@mindspring.com>]

When Jim said " then buffing them out clear." He meant smooth enough to
overcome the frosting created by the sanding smooth to remove the prisms
process. What weve all been sayin in one way or the other is that the
color goes all the way through.

TBerk

Mark Peele wrote:
> 
> The sigs and rear lights are coloured plastic.
> >
> >Is the paint just on the outside?  If so, why couldn't you just
> >sandblast it off?  Same goes for if it is in the inside I guess?  Just
> a
> >thought.
> >
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> >"This is a fine world and worth fighting for" -Ernest Hemmingway
> >I also agree with the second part.
> >
> >
> >"Jim Buck/BahnBurners!" wrote:
> >>
> >> I've thought about "candying" a set of MK2 taillights by carefully
> sanding off
> >> the ridges molded in to them then buffing them out clear.  I know
> it's doable
> >> and would look awesome.
> >>
> >> jim
> >>
> >> Riley McDowall wrote:
> >>
> >> > At 6:32 pm -0700 14/2/99, Owen wrote:
> >> > >There are clear signals made in Germany for the roc, but no clear
> rears.
> >> > >However, they apparently can be custom made, which would be cool.
> There is
> >> > >a guy on the Corrado list having a set of clear rear tail lights
> made up
> >> > >right now.  Don't ask me how they do it though.
> >> >
> >> > I would imagine you need either the original tooling or some pretty
> good
> >> > copies of it.  Plus all the injection-molding equipment, etc, which
> is I
> >> > guess why there's only one company in the world making S2 clear
> turn
> >> > signals :)
> >> >
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