Sunday, October 2, 2011

T300 CEV indicators

There's not too much to say about these indicators, other than that they are pretty well made by the CEV company. I had six all together: four from my Daytona and two from the Trophy. The Trophy had two odd replacements of unknown origin on the back. 

The indicators don't look sided at first glance but they are. There is small rectangular hole at the lower leading edge to allow water to drain out - if it gets in. All were pretty dirty inside so were treated to a nice warm bath. 




All were in reasonably good condition except one, which had a big crack down the side and showed lots of evidence of corrosion on the fasteners and also the flash-chromed reflector had crazed. Most had lost chroming around the edge where the amber lens bears down on them.

 I decided to use some Plastikote silver enamel paint (called 'chrome' but is more of a shiny silver) to seal the edges of all the reflectors, mainly to prevent the real chrome from being eroded further. I also painted the main surface of the reflectors that had suffered the most.
 I also coated the bulbs with an amber lacquer intended for fog lights, just because I'd had it for ages and thought, well, why not?

1 comment:

bostik said...

This looks like a job you enjoyed doing!! Very artistic.