A couple of explanations. Either the later cars had plastic lenses (safety
police you know), or someone replaced mine prior to me buying the car.
Regards,
CHris
At 11:40 PM 1/17/98 -0700, Larry A Hoy wrote:
>Hmm, all my lenses are glass.
>
>Larry Hoy (MGB.Roadster@juno.com)
>Denver, CO USA
>1969 MGB Roadster
>1987 Jaguar XJ6 Vanden Plas
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>On Sat, 17 Jan 1998 21:39:35 -0500 Chris Delling <saschris@flash.net>
>writes:
>>Dan-
>>
>>I had good success replacing the lenses on my 77B's speedo and tach.
>Once
>>the instrument is out of the dash, removing the front bezel was quite
>>simple, and self-explanatory. Some cretin had decided to use what I
>assume
>>was a Bic lighter to see if the lens was glass (not) or plastic (yep).
>>Needless to say, the lens' were blistered, warped and discolored (some
>people's kids!).
>>
>>Had new pieces of plexiglass cut at the local hardware store, drilled a
>>small hole for the tripmeter push button, and everything went back
>together
>>nicely.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Chris Delling
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