Soarer Central: Archive through March 25, 2006

Soarer Central Bodywork and Exterior Clear Sidemarkers Archive through March 25, 2006

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Lawrence Ostle
Tinkerer
NSW
tt

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 02:51 pm, by: Lawrence Ostle (Lawrence)

Made these on the weekend and took photos' along the way:

If there's interest, I'll do a write up.

Avin Luther
DieHard
vic
Soarer uzz31 Limited

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Reg: 07-2005

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 03:00 pm, by: Avin Luther (Lex_luther)

they look great!
neater than mine anyway.

Paul Bernasconi
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wa
soarer tt

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 05:15 pm, by: Paul Bernasconi (Pauli)

looks sweet, been planning on doin mine, just to save me some time, where did yah get the plastic and roughly how much.

Lawrence Ostle
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NSW
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 05:51 pm, by: Lawrence Ostle (Lawrence)

Paul, I actually bought a complete single fluoro fitting from an electrical place (John R Turk) for $20, and I'm going to put the light over the workbench in my garage without the cover!

Dave Hart
TryHard
Waikato
UZZ32

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 06:17 pm, by: Dave Hart (Davyboy)

What did you find was the best way of cutting the plastic.

Vinod Param
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Victoria
V8 UZZ31

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 09:44 pm, by: Vinod Param (Vparam)

If you want a large flat sheet you can get them from builder supply shops. Ask for a K12 Diffuser sheet and they will know it. ($20-$25 for 30x100cm sheet).
Ive still got a big chuck left if anyone in Victoria wants it for free..

Sam Schreck
DieHard
ACT
vvt-i JZZ31

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 09:49 pm, by: Sam Schreck (Schreck300)

Looks great.

I know!! send me a pair and when people ask me, "where did you get those???!!!" I'll tell everyone "Lawrence made em"!!!

Avin Luther
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vic
Soarer uzz31 Limited

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 10:12 pm, by: Avin Luther (Lex_luther)

cutting the plastic is the hard bit. mine was very brittle
I used a jigsaw blade (metal blade) but found they got blunt quickly and once blunt cracked the plastic. i had to have a few go's and change blades.

lawrence how did you cut them? they are neat cuts

Adam Underwood
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Victoria
V8

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 12:28 am, by: Adam Underwood (Adam_underwood)

Vinod i will happily take it off your hands

Adam Underwood
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Victoria
V8

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 12:29 am, by: Adam Underwood (Adam_underwood)

and Lawrence they look very nice show us a pic of them on your car

Lawrence Ostle
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NSW
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 11:13 am, by: Lawrence Ostle (Lawrence)

Avin, I used a Bunnings el-cheapo 'Dremel', cost me about $36 bucks, comes with everything and I've used it about 5 times recently to great effect.

Just gotta remember to wear eye protection, a piece of molten plastic flew off and missed my eye by about 1 cm

Lawrence Ostle
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 11:19 am, by: Lawrence Ostle (Lawrence)

This gives you an idea of the quality of the cut:

Basically roughly cut the plastic to withing a cm or so of the size and shape you want, then use the filing attachment to grind it down to the exact size and shape you want. The Dremel has multiple speed settings, so you can get a very accurate shape quickly.

Tobias Trinks
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Queensland
JZZ31

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Reg: 09-2005

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 04:52 pm, by: Tobias Trinks (Toby)

Looks great. Yeah, those rotary tools are very useful. Bought a cordless Dremel a couple of weeks ago and am very happy with it.

Tried to find a diffuser sheet today (Townsville), but without much success. Does anybody know where I can order one of those?

Don Bagnall
Moderator
New Zealand
I have LESS Soarers than Hayden :-(

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 05:03 pm, by: Don Bagnall (Baggs)

From an electrical wholesalers.......maybe

Dave Hart
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Waikato
UZZ32

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 05:16 pm, by: Dave Hart (Davyboy)

Got a broken piece from an electrical wholesaler for nowt, diddly squat, zilch, zip nixie...

Lawrence Ostle
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NSW
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 06:01 pm, by: Lawrence Ostle (Lawrence)

Got so many PM's about this, wrote a tutorial and posted up...

Don Bagnall
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 06:32 pm, by: Don Bagnall (Baggs)

Lawrence......you ARE the MAN!.

(today, anyway!)

Lawrence Ostle
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 08:52 pm, by: Lawrence Ostle (Lawrence)

Don,

I get that a lot.....

Don Bagnall
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 09:13 pm, by: Don Bagnall (Baggs)

Alex Dermedgoglou
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wa
uzz32

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Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 10:53 am, by: Alex Dermedgoglou (Soarer32)

Is the plastic UV stabilised? If not,given the strength of the sun in OZ, I am wondering how long before the plastic becomes real brittle and opaque

Lawrence Ostle
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NSW
tt

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Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 11:45 am, by: Lawrence Ostle (Lawrence)

Alex, I agonised about that too, but given that my car only spends about an hour on the road every day, either at 7am or 6pm and lives undercover at all other times I didn't think it too much of a problem. I also considered that the plastic is vertical and not horizontal to the sun at midday (its hottest and most direct) and that it's transparent and probably would not attract too much punishment that this probably would not be an issue. Failing this a liberal coat of Banana Boat SPF40 once a week should do it ;-)

I actually found the factory orange bits to be quite brittle (they are 14 years old after all), and after a few bits of shrapnel bounced off my face, I decided goggles would be the go....

Perhaps those who have done this conversion a while back can comment on the longevity ? Any signs of fading...?

Emanuel Spinola
Moderator
NSW
JZZ30, UZZ32

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Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 11:49 am, by: Emanuel Spinola (Manny)

Alex Dermedgoglou wrote on Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 10:53 am:
Is the plastic UV stabilised? If not,given the strength of the sun in OZ, I am wondering how long before the plastic becomes real brittle and opaque

In Sydney, 6 months in my experience... at least it will match the typical Soarer yellow headlights.

Lawrence Ostle
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NSW
tt

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Saturday, March 25, 2006 - 06:00 pm, by: Lawrence Ostle (Lawrence)

Complete at last, here are some photos. I used E-bay LED bulbs.....

Thomas Mulraney
TryHard
South Australia
JZZ30 TT

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Saturday, March 25, 2006 - 06:38 pm, by: Thomas Mulraney (Mxt_imports)

can you give me the link for the bulbs please Lawrence? Did they fit in ok without any adjustments??

Cheers,
Tom

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