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03-08-2013, 06:41 PM | #1 |
Rock Stacker Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: north augusta
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| i need to make light buckets in my lexan body!help
i have a new unpainted lexan 98 dodge ext cab...i want to make light buckets and have no clue where to start...any advice or suggestions?is it possible?help me!
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03-08-2013, 06:57 PM | #2 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Lunenburg
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I use an Xacto knife to cut out the holes. Glue in light buckets, I used Automotive Goop but a lot of folks use Shoe Goo. Attach lenses |
03-08-2013, 07:23 PM | #3 |
Scale Detail Engineering Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Turtle Island
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| Re: i need to make light buckets in my lexan body!help
The Traxxas Grave Digger light kit has self locking buckets that work really good, you'd have to glue lenses to them if you wanted though.
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03-08-2013, 08:15 PM | #4 |
Rock Stacker Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: north augusta
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| Re: i need to make light buckets in my lexan body!help see the problem is i have curved lenses not round like ur body or the bettele below...if it was round like urs it be easy...but my dodge body is curved...i order some lexan and gonna try to make some light buckets...but before i glue them i figured i would paint the body and cover up the lights with some liquid mask...its gonna be hard to curve those light buckets |
03-08-2013, 08:26 PM | #5 |
Rock Stacker Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: north augusta
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| Re: i need to make light buckets in my lexan body!help thanks for the adive but my lights are curved like this,it wont work |
03-08-2013, 08:33 PM | #6 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Ukiah
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03-08-2013, 08:39 PM | #7 |
Rock Stacker Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: north augusta
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03-09-2013, 07:13 AM | #8 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Manchester
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| Re: i need to make light buckets in my lexan body!help
Or try searching for drift body parts, they sell a bunch of different sizes and shapes of light buckets for those cars.....maybe you can find something close.
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03-09-2013, 07:59 AM | #9 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Northcentral Wisconsin
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| Re: i need to make light buckets in my lexan body!help
there is a lexan Subaru Impreza body out there that comes with light buckets that are curved similar to the Dodge Ram shape (I have one) - you dont cut the lexan body, leave the "lens" area clear, and glue the buckets in from the inside (shoe-goo?)...not sure if you can get the buckets seperately or not... Or, you could try building something out of styrene - cheap & easy to work with... |
03-09-2013, 12:33 PM | #10 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Gettysburg
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| Re: i need to make light buckets in my lexan body!help
make headlight buckets out of stirene. what i do. can cut them to fit body. then put them in with shoegoo
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03-09-2013, 01:21 PM | #11 |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: DENVER
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| Re: i need to make light buckets in my lexan body!help
I would mask the headlights and leave them clear. Then build buckets out of styrene. If you can use sissors and super glue your good to go, make them out cardboard/tape first then you have stensils to cut the styrene out. drill some holes for leds. I use chrome tape for the insides Then I used black RTV to glue them in place. |
03-09-2013, 06:09 PM | #12 | |
Rock Stacker Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: north augusta
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03-09-2013, 06:49 PM | #13 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: round pond (aka clarksville TN)
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03-09-2013, 07:12 PM | #14 |
Rock Stacker Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: north augusta
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| Re: i need to make light buckets in my lexan body!help i found this vid...im gonna do this method.. Kyokuro Presents DIY Light Buckets - YouTube hope it works..thanks |
03-11-2013, 10:23 AM | #15 |
Rock Stacker Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Portugal
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| Re: i need to make light buckets in my lexan body!help
Good Luck men, a lot of work to do |
03-11-2013, 12:48 PM | #16 |
Rock Crawler Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Waukesha
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| Re: i need to make light buckets in my lexan body!help
That's pretty sweet. More ideas for my scale projects.
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