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My hypocrisy goes only so far
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Since I’ve not been able to find anything out about the lights I bought.
I decided to just finish them out the way I think would look best.
I soda blasted the trim ring & lens plate.
After sanding the cast aluminum housing I found the original color was grey.
So I landed on a grey hammered finish & polished the glass lens to finish it up.
Almost brings an upscale look it.























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Nice! Cool


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Very nice--whatever their purpose - lol



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Yes, that’s a swell job!
 
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Very nice result. You do excellent work.



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Great work, GB. I always enjoy seeing your projects on the forum.

BTW, the blue-handled bottle cap opener you made and karma'd to me is still doing great work around my beer fridge!




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Blasting with soda was a great idea, I've often wanted to blast some of my wood turning with sand or walnut shells just to see what impact it would make.

Great work !!
 
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Beautiful restoration.

Now what are you going to use them for, starting a red light district?
 
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New tail light on your motorcycle?
 
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Hook it up to a sensor so your wife knows when to stop when she pulls in the garage. I use a tennis ball hung from a string for my wife, but yours is much, much cooler!
 
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My hypocrisy goes only so far
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Originally posted by Eponym:
Beautiful restoration.

Now what are you going to use them for, starting a red light district?




Honestly I have no idea .
I don’t need them but I enjoy putting things like this back in action.
At $25 a piece & another $20 in materials it’s an inexpensive project.
They’ll probably go in our gym with the other overflow of signs or give them to a friend this Christmas.




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Posts: 6954 | Location: Central,Ohio | Registered: December 28, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Put them on eBay for $500 as mystery lights and someone will probably buy them. Big Grin

Either way nice results, must feel good looking at the before and after and saying "I did that!"



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Oh my goodness that looks amazing ! If you excuse my OCD ... but I would love to see a stainless screw in the place of the brass one at the bottom of the lens.
 
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The gray looks great Grumpy
 
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