Mars FL Light Restauration

[SaschaUE]

First stripping the Light

 

[SaschaUE]

the restauration

 

[SaschaUE]

after a lot of work, polish, new chrome, some customs made new replacement parts the rebuild starts

 

[SaschaUE]

Finish

 

[SaschaUE]

a short clip i´ve made

 

[toon80]

Unreal...


What a nice work you've done!

 

[dmathieu]

WOW!!!

 

[tsquale]

Absolutely stunning! Bravo! :hail:

 

[CrownVic97]

Better than new! It's museum grade :thumbsup: . Great work, man!!!

 

[ERIC6913]

Sehr gut!! Sieht echt spitze auss. Du bist genau so gut wie ich jetzt!

 

[solid_snake]

Just WOW!Amazing.You are an Artist!

 

[ex416]

awesome job! :2thumbs:

 

[JohnMarcson]

One of the nicest refurbs I have seen recently.

 

[dakarm34]

Wow, that is astonishing.

 

[emtanderson51]

Bravo! Bravo! (theater clap from side to side)

 

[Billy Goldfeder]

Outstanding!!!

 

[AuroraBorealis]

Very impressive as that involved hours of painstaking work. I'm sure the original Mars designer would blush if he could see it!


Well done.

 

[ful-vue]

:hail:

 

[crescentstar69]

What they said!

 

[fyrboy]

I have a few, and had one gear housing chrome-plated - the portion where the nametag attaches. Very disappointed because of the pitting created during the original aluminum sand-casting manufacturing process - the chrome plating enhanced the appearance of those pits. Did you encounter this, and if so, did you take steps to repair/fill in the pits before chrome plating? If so, how did you accomplish this?

 

[PinballCharlie]

Simply awesome!!

 

[dmathieu]

First class!

 

[denko3]

out of words.....

 

[Maxim2Eng]

That is an outstanding job! I would even go so far as to compare it to the work of John Dorgan, may he rest in peace--beautiful!

 

[JennyCop]

Simply Amazing! Looks battery than the day it was made! Great job! :hail: :thumbsup:

 

[SaschaUE]

thanks for all your likes and comments!!


@fyrboy. you can fill up the pitts with liquid aluminum. thats a long process. with a lot of grinding, polishing and new chrome. if i had a choice for a second light. i dont want do this again. so it looks great but its to expensive!

 

[Mars Light]

Really great job, Sascha! :thumbsup:

 

[Skip Goulet]

Super-nice restoration! As many of those FLs as I've seen in operation over the years, this is the first time I've seen one broken down to see the "works". My first encounter with an FL was in 1957 when Thomas Funeral Home here mounted one on the rt. front fender of their then-new 1957 Plymouth station wagon ambulance: as if that wagon didn't have enough already, with a lighted Q, four red Unity lights and a 17 beacon behind the Q.


Did the FL use the 1195 bulb, or the larger 1019?

 

[SaschaUE]

its a 1015 bulb

 

[dmathieu]

1015 for 6 Volt


1019 for 12Volt

 

[SaschaUE]

1015 for 6 Volt
1019 for 12Volt

thats right!


my light is a 6 volt light.

 

[SaschaUE]

a Upgrade for my FL 8 Light

got a extremly rare blue lens.

know only one other FL light with a blue lens in this Forum from tsquale.

 

[dmathieu]

WOW!

 

[tsquale]

That looks great with the blue lens! I need to get mine running! Thank you for the video.

 

[801]

Wow, I'm speachless!

 

[AuroraBorealis]

Another superb restoration. I wish I had that time, patience and commitment!

 

[ERIC6913]

Blau sieht viel besser auss! Wo findest du nur die Zeit moechte ich wissen??!!

 

[Skulldigger]

Fantastic job ! Just ditto what everyone said above...!

 

[SaschaUE]

Thanks to you all

Eric, ich nehme mir einfach die Zeit aber woher bekommst du deine ganzen tollen Sachen, die du hier so vorstellst?