I live in Lawrenceville Suwanee area however my son lives in Johns Creek near old Alabama and buice Rd and I'm in that area often as well.
I actually have to take my drive side headlight back apart lol.
The hot glue I used to hold the rings in place while I secured then with rtv... Has melted and dripped onto the projector getting glass doh.. So I'll have to clean that up no biggie
Good thing the lenses come off easier now with the butyl tape.
I actually baked a spare junk yard set tonight to test the permaseal... That was terrible and big fail. Housing cracked as I expected.
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Originally Posted by sgrice
Nextelbuddy - Great work!
I'm about 30 minutes in on watching your video and I really want to congratulate you. Lots of great information/tips and tricks. I also appreciate it when you talk about other ways that other people have accomplished (or tried to, at least) the same task (e.g. oven baking or (as crystalworks did) cutting the top of the flange off completely and then reattaching it later.
This is quite timely in that I was recently helping my son with his e53 with quite cloudy lenses. I had seen some videos that claimed that a long oven time worked to release permaseal. So I tried that (240 degrees for 20 minutes) but that was total fail. I contemplated doing what you did (oscillating tool to cut off lens followed by precision heat gun/razor knife/prying/pulling) but wasn't sure it would work. Ended up just doing a 3M lens restoration sanding job which right now looks great. I then applied the Maguires sealant spray that they say is guaranteed to last at least a year. We'll see. If they cloud up again quickly then (thanks to your video) I now know a technique that works with this very recalcitrant permaseal.
Side note - where in Atlanta are you? I'm in Johns Creek/Alpharetta area.
Again, great work and thanks for taking the time to put it together.
Regards,
Stephen
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