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Well folks, as stubborn as I am, and as much as I hate to admit defeat, I think I'll be ordering a set of lenses from Layson's. For anyone who may be attempting what I did, I'd still say go for it, but verify your tolerances/sizes before you get too deep... Effectively what happened with my...

Wow... Just wow... Amazing job, my lenses pale in comparison.

:rofl:That's no joke my friend.

Interesting, I always thought urethane didn't do well in UV applications. That's what I was afraid of. I knew they'd be crazy expensive, which is why I was hoping to avoid it through the use of my vacuum chamber. If I didn't have as much invested in these guys as I do, I'd probably just buy a...

Thank you much, I greatly appreciate it. That's phenomenal, I probably wouldn't have tackled casting them if I had been able to find that site just because those are definitely cheaper. Are they true polycarbonate lenses, or are they acrylic like the ones I cast? I book marked it for my other...

You mean the raised edges that are in the middle of the lense? When the originals were cast/made, the inner silver piece was riveted through the light, and it's solid chrome plated pot metal. I'm planning on deleting the chrome on the lights themselves and only keeping the exterior trims...

Mine were basically jigsaw puzzles when I went to cast them, so I'm going to have to sand and polish them a bunch. If yours aren't too bad, and you're wanting to go the route like I did, I'd just fill the holes with hot glue, then sand the finished casting down to the original profile. That's...

I forgot to add that I cured the newly poured part and mold into the oven for an additional 2 hrs at 170F after I poured it. It just helps to solidify the part better. One thing about the mold pictured, the half joint (where the mold splits) was way below the bottom of the piece I was trying...

Alright, here goes nothing. So to start off with, I heated my mold halves to 170 deg F for 30 minutes. Alumilite suggests 140-150F, but our oven only goes to 170. :) I would strongly suggest buying a really cheap cookie sheet from the thrift store for this project, so that you avoid ticking off...

Absolutely, if I had been able to track down NOS lenses, I may not have reproduced them. I remember finding (on this forum actually) someone up in Canada that was reproducing Monaco lenses. I was in college at the time, and couldn't afford $800 for a set of plastics, so I book marked the site. A...

Thank you much, any and all help is welcome. If the boss (wife) says I'm OK to cast my last outer lens this evening, I'll try to get pictures from complete start to finish. I've got a friend with a big-tired Nova who's wanting to see if I can cast him a custom shifter top, so if I do that, I may...

I actually read that thread when I was considering my options! That thread was what ultimately led me to choose alumilite vs some of the competition. Thanks much for the props. The thing I'm most worried about with these is that the cast acrylic material yellows in UV light. I thought about...

Basically everything came from Alumilite. I used their "Water Clear" casting resin, their High Strength 1 mold rubber, their mold clay and a few other odds and ends. One thing that was kind of rough was that I grossly underestimated how much mold rubber I was going to need. I originally ordered...

Hello All, I've used this forum a lot, but it's taken me a while to finally join. I recently decided I'd go after one of the cheaper items on my Mopar (or so I thought), and I decided that I'd give casting my tail lenses a try. I don't have many pictures of the process as a whole, but I'll try...