Tackled this yesterday and it went okay.
150º for 8 minutes in a fan oven when wife or partner is out, helps to soften the glue a bit. Glass side down on a middle shelf.
I used a wide paint scraper/wall paper stripper to squeeze into the gap between glass and grey plastic then twisted it to ease them apart working slowly all the way around.
Take time, and use oven gloves, this is the hardest bit. Once they're apart leave to cool down.
Find a screw driver to match the groove width of the plastic back and chase out all the old glue. Glues seem to differ but it all comes off with blades from the glass and by poking it off the plastic.
Clean glass and, or refix your reflector, depending on why you embarked on this voyage, then stick it all back together with your preferred goo.
I bought a roll of body mastic in strip form. It fits the groove perfectly and is heat sensative. -So for example, if you're teaching your daughter car repair and don't notice the lens is upside down, you can just pop it back in the oven, split, turn and re stick.
If anyone wants some of this stuff let me know, I've got a bit left over.
Oh, and if your oven smells of headlamps and your wife starts asking awkward questions, then I share your shame.
150º for 8 minutes in a fan oven when wife or partner is out, helps to soften the glue a bit. Glass side down on a middle shelf.
I used a wide paint scraper/wall paper stripper to squeeze into the gap between glass and grey plastic then twisted it to ease them apart working slowly all the way around.
Take time, and use oven gloves, this is the hardest bit. Once they're apart leave to cool down.
Find a screw driver to match the groove width of the plastic back and chase out all the old glue. Glues seem to differ but it all comes off with blades from the glass and by poking it off the plastic.
Clean glass and, or refix your reflector, depending on why you embarked on this voyage, then stick it all back together with your preferred goo.
I bought a roll of body mastic in strip form. It fits the groove perfectly and is heat sensative. -So for example, if you're teaching your daughter car repair and don't notice the lens is upside down, you can just pop it back in the oven, split, turn and re stick.
If anyone wants some of this stuff let me know, I've got a bit left over.
Oh, and if your oven smells of headlamps and your wife starts asking awkward questions, then I share your shame.
