Fog light covers

[John Dol]

This was on my list of things to do before paint, and when Ron posted (on the other forum) his it was a good motivation to jump on mine as well.
Thanks for sharing the tools you used Ron, as one Amazon order later the angle drill and stubby bits where here to get things started. In the meantime I had ordered the headlight cover brackets from FFR.
I tried 4 tabs at first, but didn't like the look so went back to 3 as Ron did.
Came out pretty good.

John

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[Ron J]

Hey John,
Your fog lamp covers turned out great!
What seal trim did you use and how did you cut the Lexan? I am guessing with a fine tooth band saw blade and then edge sanding to final shape.
For my covers, using what I learned in solid geometry, I created a dxf file of the fog lamp ellipse and had an online vendor laser cut the covers.
This might be of interest, the vendor I hired to cut the covers can supply acrylic in several different tints (i.e. Blue, Yellow, Green, Grey, etc.)

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Ron

[John Dol]

Ron.

Thanks!
My approach was a little more conventional. Used cardboard stock to make a template and transferred that to the lexan I bought at HD.
Transferred the templates with a sharpie to the lexan, and used a bench grinder to trim it to size. Since the edges are covered by the seal it didn't have to look as pretty as the headlight covers.
The seal I had still from "who knows what" and it worked perfectly. Just had to take some time to find it after 3 moves. It ended up being on my workbench of all places under a pile of crap. Which lead to a garage clean up before making these.
Pretty happy with how they came out, and it's a custom touch not too many of these cars have.

John

[Ron J]

Ron.

Thanks!
My approach was a little more conventional. Used cardboard stock to make a template and transferred that to the lexan I bought at HD.
Transferred the templates with a sharpie to the lexan, and used a bench grinder to trim it to size. Since the edges are covered by the seal it didn't have to look as pretty as the headlight covers.
The seal I had still from "who knows what" and it worked perfectly. Just had to take some time to find it after 3 moves. It ended up being on my workbench of all places under a pile of crap. Which lead to a garage clean up before making these.
Pretty happy with how they came out, and it's a custom touch not too many of these cars have.

John

Thank you for the feedback. What thickness Lexan did you use?

[John Dol]

I think it was 3/32

John