Polishing my headlights
rbowman wrote:
> On 11/28/2020 02:13 PM, Steve W. wrote:
>> micky wrote:
>>> In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 28 Nov 2020 06:18:47 -0600, Vic Smith
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 01:13:08 -0500, micky >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 27 Nov 2020 18:05:44 -0600, Hank
>>>>> Rogers
>>>>>> Remember when we had sealed beam headlights? Plain, cheap Glass.
>>>>> And they never burned out.*** Though I decided to get fancy and I
>>>>> replaced them once with halogen, and those did burn out.
>>>> Your memory of sealed beams is different than mine.
>>>
>>> Well maybe I didn't drive as much as I could have.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>> Besides replacing a few on my own
>>>> cars, I saw many "one-eyed" cars on the road.* That's a rare sight
>>>> nowadays.
>>>
>>> But I drive less now than I did then, and I was one-eyed twice
>>> in the
>>> last two years.*** Occasionally when I'm facing something
>>> reflective, a
>>> store window, certain cars, I test my headlights but I don't
>>> know how
>>> long they had been out.** There are enough street lights here that
>>> unless I go to the next town at night, I can't tell by how well
>>> I can
>>> see.
>>
>> The trade off with modern lighting is that to get brighter
>> lighting with
>> the smaller reflectors used they run the bulbs at a higher
>> voltage than
>> they used to. So an older sealed beam may have been tagged as a
>> 12 volt.
>> but the filament was set up to run at 14 or higher. So the sealed
>> beams
>> tended to last a while, unless they were the cheap ones and in poor
>> mountings.
>>
>>>
>>> Also one fog light burned out. Will the police stop you for
>>> that?* I
>>> guess, if allowed, it would make a good excuse and they like to
>>> stop
>>> people.
>>
>> Nope, fog lights are not required lighting. They can stop you for
>> headlights, tail brake (although technically the laws state you
>> need two
>> rear facing brake lights so if the CHMSL is working they cannot
>> give you
>> a ticket for one out UNLESS it is also the turn lamp) And these
>> days for
>> not having them on in the rain.
>>
>
> A different situation: I'd bought an old Dodge pickup where someone
> with big truck envy had installed clearance lights on the cab.
> According to New Hampshire law while they certainly weren't
> required if they were there they had to work.
>
>
So, remove them. Caulk the holes with RTV silicon.
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