tsquale's mystery cleanup / finished!

[tsquale]

A teaser of what is to come. Picked this bar (complete) and began the tear down and cleanup today. This is all you get for now! Photos and video will be updated when it is done. To those who saw what this is on another interwebs, don't ruin the surprise!

Update 5/7/2019: Surprise! It's all done with what I want out of it. A New-Tech Lightstorm with the factory painted lenses. This one is complete with alley lights, take down, four rotators, and the original speaker! This one will be staying in the collection and I'll be selling the other one I have.

As you can see, this thing was filthy. The endcaps both are damaged which allowed the elements in. Someone had the idea to use bathroom silicone to try and prevent that, which made for a real bear to remove the endcaps without further damaging them and then cleaning all of it off the bar. Needed a few new bulbs, a deep interior cleaning to get rid of the 2 crickets, 4 ladybugs, hornet, and spider that all met their demise inside, and polishing of the lenses to get to where it is at now.



Obligatory video:

 

[JazzDad]

It's a low-speed fratistat.

 

[tsquale]

JazzDad was close. Had a couple of free days to get this fully cleaned up and running! Op is updated

 

[coop359]

Nice job Tony. Another unique and rare bar. Not mass produced is my bet.

 

[kitn1mcc]

ohhhhhhhhh

 

[lotsofbars]

It looks sexy as hell, but it's sad to see the condition the endcaps are in and how they were "fixed."

 

[tsquale]

It looks sexy as hell, but it's sad to see the condition the endcaps are in and how they were "fixed."

Agreed. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to safely get the silicone off. Some heat, a sharp razor, and lots of time and patience paid off.

 

[Skulldigger]

That is a sharp looking bar. Never seen one before. Congrats !

 

[Sparx_MacGyver]

That looks great! I've never seen it, though. Very interesting.

 

[irishff]

Impressive. Did they make their own rotators, or are those SVP rotators I spy?

 

[tsquale]

Impressive. Did they make their own rotators, or are those SVP rotators I spy?

I'm not sure James. I'm not familiar with the SVP rotators. I would imagine that they used someone's parts vs creating their own as it would be much more cost efficient for production.

 

[Stampeed Valkyrie]

@irishff Your probably right... They appear to be SVP/Sireno/S&W rotators.

@tsquale looks like lightstorm did the same thing other bars of this time period did, and outsourced their internals.

 

[Nolines]

That reminds me of a bar I saw in a movie I'm just not sure what movie I saw it in... Dangit..

 

[kitn1mcc]

are the color lenses faded

 

[tsquale]

are the color lenses faded

A little, but not terribly. When sliding them out, part is covered by the black "top" metal piece. That area is a little darker but not drastically.