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Today i started to fit the lenses from Supragaztt's GB....

 

...only managed to fit one lense, which took about 4.5 hours fron start to finish. I had a few problems along the way, namely the Dremel bits which kept overheating and breaking so had to continuely cool them while cutting in water.

 

the other thing which i did different was NOT to remove the old lense from the body in the oven, i thought it was better not to and i think it didnt come out too bad, the reason was because i didnt want to make a mess of having to seal both the old lense ring to the light body and then the new lense to the old.

 

The only thing i made a c*ck up of was filling the gap between the lenses as i found filler doesnt adhere too well to bostick adhesive :rolleyes: something which i may need to redo and do properly on the other side. Anyway heres the before and after pics:

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/7130/dsc00306pg1.jpg

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/7130/dsc00306pg1.963cb771dc.jpg

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/880/dsc00305du3.jpg

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/880/dsc00305du3.0ab7823b7e.jpg

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/9475/dsc00304db9.jpg

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/9475/dsc00304db9.cb29ca6868.jpg

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/4695/dsc00307bc1.jpg

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/4695/dsc00307bc1.bd72374d36.jpg

 

a very impressive transformation....

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Wow - good effort mate. For someone who didn't like the sound of polishing out some marks they look fantastic! Good job ;)

 

Yeh i know mate, to be honest - half way through i thought right this is going to come out really shite but i think what helped was not removing the old lense from the light body kept it much simpler although i had to do a lot more masking prior to spraying and used an airline to make sure every last particle of dust was out...fantastc lenses though and oy were they tough to cut :innocent:

 

Looks great

 

thanks mate

 

a very impressive transformation....

 

thanks Imi, i think for the price its a fantastic mod and makes the front look a lot more modern and cleaner

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