remove and reinstall tail light lenses

Peter Coomaraswamy said:
Hi Scott, I have the passenger side and you can have it but it's got a chip. Let me know if you want it and when my heat knife arrives I'll get it going. It does not look cracked from the inside but it depends how bad yours is- Price- about 4 bucks for shipping mail.

Peter
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hey Peter,

thanks, i need to find one without a chip. i have a NOS driver side. i am changing over to red lenses because i think it looks better with the black coupe. already following Stan's new lens discussion

scott
 
HB Chris said:
I bought the heat knife at Harbor Freight and it works like crap. After 15 minutes I might have removed two sides of the reverse lens, can't tell. In this case it follows the basic rule that you have a 50/50 chance of getting something that will work and last from this place. It's not very hot.
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check this out ... a bit more expensive. the hot knife tip is short ... but it has great reviews. thoughts?
http://www.amazon.com/Portasol-010589330-Super-125-Watt-Heat/dp/B003H6NN2Q/ref=pd_sxp_grid_i_1_1
 
hello everyone,

i remove my broken lens with electric hotknife, everything is ready to glue but we don't have liquid fusion glue in FRANCE so do you think we could use hot gun glue or epoxy glue ? thanks
 

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Hi everyone,
I'm using a special strong cutter made by Excelite. It's rather bursting than cutting these overlapping hard edges.
I use ceramic filled compound with good gap filling (e.g. Located EA3450 or 4090 from Henkel) to put the lenses back in place20230923_160336.jpg20230923_160347.jpg
Regards
Thomas
 
TomHom said:
Hi everyone,
I'm using a special strong cutter made by Excelite. It's rather bursting than cutting these overlapping hard edges.
I use ceramic filled compound with good gap filling (e.g. Located EA3450 or 4090 from Henkel) to put the lenses back in placeView attachment 168735View attachment 168736
Regards
Thomas
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Good info all around. Many look for a good product to install lenses.
 
TomHom said:
Hi everyone,
I'm using a special strong cutter made by Excelite. It's rather bursting than cutting these overlapping hard edges.
I use ceramic filled compound with good gap filling (e.g. Located EA3450 or 4090 from Henkel) to put the lenses back in placeView attachment 168735View attachment 168736
Regards
Thomas
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By chance a picture of the compound?
 
Anyone in US find this domestically? I saw a couple on ebay from Italy and Latvia with either huge lead times or $$hipping...One domestic company (Radco?) and their website said yes, their customer sevice said no. Nothing on Amazon but the usual epoxy...None at Lowes, Ace, etc Help appreciated.
 
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