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#1
01-12-2003, 08:09 PM
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Details on Opening A Corner Light?
I've searched, and found a couple of old posts about this but none have really anwsered it. I ve tried a heat gun, and oven method but none seem to loosen the silicone glue holding it together, and the housing starts to melt so i cant leave it in longer, its a plastic lense and housing clear corner.. any other ideas? or anybody accomplished this?, thanks
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#3
01-12-2003, 10:11 PM
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just take a knife and cut the damn glue.
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#4
01-12-2003, 10:58 PM
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RE: Glue
Its not glue its a epoxy which i heard means it a part of the plastic after it cures.. so u cant cut it, its hard as rock...
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#5
01-12-2003, 11:12 PM
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once u get one side cut open u can kinda pull it apart
dont be skeerd its only $20 at the most
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01-12-2003, 11:34 PM
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RE: once u get one side cut open u can kinda pull it apart
Well, it cracked when i tried to pull it apart.. so if anybody else has any ideas??
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#7
01-13-2003, 12:11 AM
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DREMEL is the best way.
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#8
01-13-2003, 01:53 AM
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^^^^agreed, that does seem like it would be the best method, get a dremel and a cutting disk, dremel multitools are a very good investment, they are so useful when it comes to almost anything!!
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#9
01-13-2003, 03:13 PM
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RE: Corners
Anybody Done this Successfully?
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01-13-2003, 06:25 PM
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We JUST had a thread about this...
I've tried several different methods including Heat gun and Oven. I can say that the heat-gun method worked the best, but it's still very hard to seperate the lenses without cracking them. I finally got it perfect once, but when I re-attatched the lenses after painting the housings black, I used hot glue. Since it was so hot out in the summer, the lenses ended up flying off... Anyways, if you're thinking about painting your housings black, check e-bay out, they've got some black-housing corners for sale on there... I figure that's what I'll do if I find some for a 90 hatch. Oh yeah, also heard that boiling them will warp them. CZ-R used the dremel method on his, cutting the housing away from the lense, from the backside, but I thought about doing that, and I'd rather pop the lenses off... I dunno..
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