Early tail light help please!
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 8:45 pm
I've finally found a Model 78 tail light, but it needs some attention..... I'm hoping someone here is more familiar with the details early tail lights than I am!!
I need to install a round red lens into the rear panel of an early Jno Brown tail light (Model 78), and a blue lens on the side panel.
1. How do you replace the glass without messing up the brass retaining rim?
2. The lenses are 3 1/8" diameter. I need to find a blue lens... does anybody know the size of the blue lens on a 1913/14 tail light? It appears to be the same size as the 1912.
3. It looks like all of the sides and the reflector are the same as a model 105 (1912). Does anybody know if the lenses and reflector are the same for a 1913/14?
My reflector is well worn and needs to be replated. Does anybody know somewhere I can have this done? Is a 1913/14 reflector the same? I'm thinking I may need to just find a reflector with better plating than mine from a donor lamp, if a 13/14 will work....
Thanks in advance!
I need to install a round red lens into the rear panel of an early Jno Brown tail light (Model 78), and a blue lens on the side panel.
1. How do you replace the glass without messing up the brass retaining rim?
2. The lenses are 3 1/8" diameter. I need to find a blue lens... does anybody know the size of the blue lens on a 1913/14 tail light? It appears to be the same size as the 1912.
3. It looks like all of the sides and the reflector are the same as a model 105 (1912). Does anybody know if the lenses and reflector are the same for a 1913/14?
My reflector is well worn and needs to be replated. Does anybody know somewhere I can have this done? Is a 1913/14 reflector the same? I'm thinking I may need to just find a reflector with better plating than mine from a donor lamp, if a 13/14 will work....
Thanks in advance!