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    Posted: March/12/12 at 6:30am
So what did the wife think of the oven usage for car parts? LOL Anne was not happy with me when I was rebuilding my brake calipers for the E30 on the kitchen table. LOL
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Thanks for all the info Kurt!  The bit about solvents & plastics is a good reminder.

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Looks tight. You did a good job. 

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Any oven in my home must serve dual-duty. :-) 

That's actually just one of the cotton work gloves from Japan that I always use when working on cars. Keeps all the yucky stuff off my hands and is great for burn prevention as well. The thin oils get through but they are easily cleaned up. 

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This give me ideas for SMOG-1.....

Originally posted by CORNERS CORNERS wrote:

Here's what he looks like when all done: 
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The end result is VERY NICE!

I stuck them in the oven at 200F for about 10 minutes to pry them apart and to put them back together.

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Did Martha Stewart approve of the recipe and usage of the OVE-GLOVE ?

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Originally posted by Erhan Erhan wrote:

Looks great.  Love the red accent.
 
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I too used an orbital polisher once I got the crude Z pattern removed from the lens that a person thought they needed to carve into the lens.
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I used 600 grit sandpaper, 1500 grit, and then an orbital polisher with Meguiar heavy cut polish, followed by fine cut polish. 

What I can see now are impact craters from rock hits. They are very deep relative to the surface, but the polish did get into many of them and they are not as visible as before.
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I used rubbing compound to get the deep scratches out and then progressively smoother Griot's compounds and finally glass polish.


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Originally posted by Erhan Erhan wrote:

Looks great.  Love the red accent.

That's "Ford Red" engine paint from O'Reilly's if you're interested. :-) 

It has a decent gloss by itself, but I shot it with some clear coat to make it more shiny. 

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I just used various sandpaper and polishing equipment I have on hand and it cleaned up pretty nicely. 

You can't tell from 6ft away. 

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Looks great.  Love the red accent.
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Kurt you might try one of those head light restore kits, my Dad had good luck with the 3M kit.
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The pits are fairly deep. I'll need to sand them down and then polish them back up again. 
I did polish it a little bit yesterday and it does look a lot better. 

Note to self: Never use thinner on clear polycarbonate - it causes haze. Use rubbing alcohol or just soap and water instead.  

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Kurt:  Looks very goodThumbs Up 

Painting with the family gone was a good move, otherwise you would have to try and convince your wife that the odor was just a special new MINI incenseBig smile

Those multiple coats thin coats are the hardest thing to do for me.  I always seem to get carried away with the paintCry.

Have you tried buffing out the pits in the clear lenses?  I took out some scratched in graffiti on a tail light lens.
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Originally posted by shasti212 shasti212 wrote:

Love it!!! CORNERS is getting more and more bada$$

$$ is right. These headlamps were not cheap. I should have got a 2005-2006 MINI. 
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It's going to take me a while to get used to how dark the headlights look now. 


Stefano: The passenger side Xenon is still here. I had to destroy the driver side light. Let me know if you want the good passenger headlamp. I'll give you a good deal. 

SMOG: I kept the spray cans indoors until they were room temperature. 
I closed the big garage door and opened the door to the house and circulated the air for a while, and then painted in the garage. I was real careful to not put down too much paint.  The key is to put down a very thin coat first - just barely even enough to cover the work. Wait for that to get a little sticky and then start laying it on a little bit thicker. Let it set up for 30 seconds or 1 minute between passes. 

The temperature in the garage was probably around 65F. Wife and kids weren't home to complain about the smell, so after painting, I put the painted parts in the powder room with a space heater to get the temperature up to 90F or so, to speed drying. They were dry to the touch in about 3 hours. 

I would not attempt to paint at temperatures much below 60F and in high humidity. 






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Love it!!! CORNERS is getting more and more bada$$
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Nice look.  I have a question about painting in cool / cold conditions - Doy you paint indoors, have a heated garage, or just not worry abut it?
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Nice job Kurt!

What u gonna do with the old xenon? I kinda need the passenger side one;)

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I did a Joey mod to CORNERS today. 
The 2002-2004 Xenon headlamps are basically impossible to take apart without destroying them, so I ordered a set of 2005-06 headlamps. These easily come apart after sticking them in the over for about 10 minutes at 200F. 

Then paint. 
I didn't bother sanding. I just used a Krylon Plastic paint as the primer - it is fairly aggressive and slightly melts the chrome. We'll see if it holds up - but this part will have nothing touching it so it should be OK. 

When I put things back together, some goo got on the inside of one of the clear lenses. 
I tried to clean it off but things just went downhill. I couldn't get the lens sufficiently polished and the more I tried the worse it got. 

I gave up and used the lens from one of my original headlamps (which required destroying it). So it's not quite as pristine as the other one. There are a bunch of small rock chips. It will even out over time. 

It was about as difficult as I imagined. If you don't have a spare headlamp, just be careful putting things back together!!! 


Here's the pictures! 




Here's what he looks like when all done: 
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Waiting for the painted parts to dry... 
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He looks like he has two black eyes.... :-)
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This is what the headlamps look like on the inside
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I stuck them in the oven at 200F for about 10 minutes to pry them apart and to put them back together. 
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The finished product. 
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New eyes.
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The bottom light is the high beam and also functions under low power as daytime running lights. 
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Low beam Xenon. 
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