Re Silvering Headlights

Trevor my one's in the 34 were dull and I used Silveo this is polish for home silver ormenments and they came up a treat. Dave

Dave

The picture below shows the condition of one of the buckets as you can see it has no silver left on it at all, the 2 i am getting done are for the next truck as the ones for the truck i am doing now are in pretty good condition.



Trevor

the other trick to getting brighter lights is to fit halogen bulbs (providing it is 12 volt). Did that to the P and even with the same wattage as the original bulbs I can now see where I am going.

I should do the Inter one day.

Trevor, They are still OK although vehicle has always been under cover, firm was Premier Plating Co, 59 John St Bentley WA 6102, 08 9451 5688. Have sent you a PM. David.

Ron

Thanks for the contact (I owe you a colddy or 2)

The aluminising process is called "vacuum metallising", and it appears there are only a few companies in Australia, doing it on a repair basis for older vehicles/headlights.
Zeus Products P/L in Dandenong, appears to be one company that does do it.

www.zeusproducts.com.au/metalllisingobjects.html


Just spoke to Garry at Zues Products and he can do the headlights for about $15-$20 each for the plating plus any prep work required and he said absolute top price would be about $40-$50 each.

There address is 14 Healey Road Dandenong Victoria 3175
The factory works Monday to Thursday 10 to 5

Trevor

Trevor, that's excellent news. It's not often you get a pleasant surprise when you get a quote nowadays. However, make sure you get it in writing.
Just got some relined brake shoes back from a brake crowd, .. they quoted me $80 verbally, but when I went to pick them up, it was $151! :'(

Part of the price alteration appears to be, that in the deal, the old shoes were returned to me complete, and I got complete new shoes with new linings supplied.
I guess it was because the old linings were asbestos, and they wouldn't touch them as far as removing the old linings went. However, it would have been nice to have that explained to me beforehand.

I agreed with Ron I had a vacum brake done for (JP ) and was one price and when it came back it had double in price I needed and had to pay it. Dave

Got my headlight Reflectors back today $90 including postage.

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After





Gary at Zues products is a fantastic bloke to deal with.

Trevor

Came up a treat mate, gotta be happy with that result.

I can see Zeus working on some Dennis headlights soon!