[doc] Indicator lens re-colour

["Phill Wright" <psw@xxxxxxxx>]

just some info ..

One of my rear indicator lenses was yellow rather than the usual nice 
orange, I've seen this on a few cars (quite a few on ebay). I don't 
know if one had actually faded or if it had been replaced at some 
time with a different production one that was lighter - the pics of 
the factory assembly I have on video seem to suggest the latter as 
cars can be seen on the production line which look like they have 
both yellow lenses.

Chris P suggested I re-colour it with some of that yellow stuff you 
used to paint on car headlights when going over to france, but thats 
still yellow and both local car parts shows gave me an odd look when 
I asked for some and tried thier best to sell me some beam deflectors.

I visited a few arts and craft shops and found one selling separate 
glass paints for doing that 'stained glass' art stuff.

There was nothing just right, but I bought 2 colours, Orange and 
Yellow and mixing these at 50/50 ratio gives exactly the right 
colour - I now have nice matching rear indicators.

The stuff I used is called 'Vitrail' and the two colours are Yellow
(14) and Orange(16) , about 3 quid a pot, but that 45ml of each, 
enough to do a hundred cars :-) ... anyone need some, I'll pop it in 
the post 

Cheers

Phill W
DOC 233
VIN 6772 (sorbet)





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