[s-cars] HID lights group buy - $185/set delivered

[LL - NY]

Per Daniel Stern's site, the diagonal cut goes from the center
of the cut up at 15 degrees. Of course the problem for me is
to take the time to get the lamps out and apart.

LL - NY

On 12/8/05, Dave Ellis <UrS4 at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>
> I didn't use a mask, just used a felt pen to mark the cut first.  The
> beam pattern mask is upside down and backwards, but I expected this from
> a lens.  Just bend the beam mask out, mark the cut from the notch in the
> center of the DOT beam pattern to the bottom of the outside alignment
> tab (there's a small alignment tab on each side of the mask), and then
> cut.  Takes about five minutes per low beam one the headlamp is
> disassembled.  I used some fine sand paper to remove the burs and smooth
> the edge out again, then bent the tab back in to it's original position.
>
> The DOT mask is like this:
>
>         |                             |
>         |              _______________|
>         |______________|
>
>
> Once cut it looks (something) like this, but at a much less severe angle
> (imagine the diagonal cut ending where the right edge does in the top
> ASCII illustration:
>
>         |                 /
>         |                /
>         |               /
>         |______________/
>
>
> Just to be on the safe side before I actually cut the mask, I inserted a
> paper cutout of my planned cut and then shone a pen light beam through
> the lens assembly onto the wall to ensure I was going to get the beam
> pattern I was looking for.  I used on old euro beam Hella headlight
> assembly from an old Volkswagen I used to own to compare the "new" low
> beam pattern to an actual euro beam pattern.  They matched, so I went
> ahead.
>
> -Dave
>
>
>
> LL - NY wrote:
> > I've been planning to do this, just haven't the time. BTW, do you have
> > a pattern (i.e., is the mask image reversed, as I would expect or
> upright?)
> >                                                                  /
> > (bad ASCII art   do you cut like this? ----------/
> >
> > or this?     /--------------
> >               /
> >
> > I know the other parameters are availible at Stern's website.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > LL - NY
> >
>