Dome light repairs... How Ford should have done it

[Ranchero50]

Figured I'd do a TTT on this one.

Jamie

[Joshpow]

That signal arm sounds great.

[fordguy63080]

What happened to making those dome lights for us? are you thinking about making a few or what?? If you are whats the price???? please let me know...............................Thanks Rich

[Ranchero50]

Rich, thanks for digging this back up, been getting lots of business in the last week or so. Must be spring.

The dome lamp bezels are $30 mailed out. I have a couple dozen made still.
I also have the ash tray pulls, just finished another batch of them, and they turned out great. They are $14 mailed out.

PM me your address so I can verify the paypal payment if you chose that route, ranchero50 at yahoo.com

Regular mail

James Sollenberger
810 Chestnut St
Hagerstown MD 21740


As a side note, I've had the mill for almost one year now. Seems so long.

Jamie

[Ranchero50]

Another update, been trying to make the lense milling part more efficient. I was cutting out each peice on a saw, setting them on edge in the mill and cutting one side flat, then flipping them and doing the other side, then running a cut program on each face of each part to get one good lens out. Now I'm trying to do 8 at a time using double sided tape to hold the lenses to a fixture.

Took some doing to get the program running and it worked out pretty good. Takes around an hour to mill out all 8 since I have to run the mill slow to keep the plastic from overheating and gumming up the tool. Only problem I had was the tape really took hold and with the tabs holding the peices together they broke when I went to remove them. Still I got one good one out of the test batch.


Jamie

[flyboy2610]

Maybe you could soak the tape off overnight?

[Ranchero50]

Maybe, the top layer of tape needs to stay on and I think water would make the particle board fixture do wierd things. I was thinking about slotting the base or maybe making an air pocket in the middle of the lense and then drilling through the fixture so I could use air to help pop the lenses off the base. Still thinking about it right now. I need to redo the program first and run another batch. I have four fixtures with lexan taped down that need processed.

Jamie

[71 LONG BED]

Without knowing exactly what material your using, but knowing it is plastic, I would say you need to up your feed rate to stop the gumming. Use the fastest RPM your machine has and feed it pretty aggresive. What is the highest RPM you have?

[Ranchero50]

8k, but if I push it hard the tape was giving way. The material is an Acrylic. 1000rpm and 10ipm on a sharp .25" 4fl carbide cuts fine just idling along. The .125 2fl EM gets 30ipm and does nice too. Both climbing cuts. The machine will do 200ipm but I don't like pushing it that hard.

Jamie

[Ranchero50]

Oh yeah, DOC for the .25" was .030", .080" for the .125" EM.

[1971ford]

good to see you still pumping these out! Any estimate on how many of these you have sold?

Oh and i got my '69 interior painted all shiny red, and i have a new camera (Nikon D70) so i can get some good shotsof the dome light/sun visor clip but i think you already have great shots. ill take them anyways and send them your way

[frankensteined_67]

just found this thread.
are you still taking orders. if so how can i get in on this bad@@@ light cover

[Ranchero50]

Ryan, somewhere over 400 of these puppies out there.

Frank, you have a pm

Jamie

[Tank]

Ranchero50,

I would like to jump on this banwagon also. Please put me down to get one also. How do we pay you?
Thanks

[Ranchero50]

Tank, you have mail...

Jamie