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| | | | Joined: May 2015 Posts: 11,009 Housekeeping (Moderator) Making a Stovebolt Bed & Paint and Body Shop Forums | | Housekeeping (Moderator) Making a Stovebolt Bed & Paint and Body Shop Forums Joined: May 2015 Posts: 11,009 | Got a nice set of stainless headlight bezels from one of the members (Thanks, Dave) Nice shape except one needs to be spot welded at the bottom. Have a friend with a spot welder who's willing to fix it for me, but wanted a sample to practice on to make sure he didn't burn a hole thru it. So yesterday I took the buggered up bezels off my truck, thinking I would sacrifice one of them for practice spot welds. One was the typical with the gasket and spring wire clips holding it in place, but the other had no gasket, but just a metal piece at the top that engages the slot on top of the headlight bracket. Anyway, I took a file to one, as they looked like chrome plated rather than stainless. And lo and behold it was chrome plated brass (all the way thru). Checked the other one with a magnet and it appears also to be brass. Guess I need to scrounge up some stainless sheet metal from somewhere else.
Anyone have the skinny on what the bezels were made of each year? Also the one without the spring wire clip - could it be a repop? My truck is a '51. No idea what year the stainless ones came off of but they have the gaskets and spring wire clips.
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Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truckFollow this saga in Project JournalPhotos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together. | | | | | Joined: May 2015 Posts: 11,009 Housekeeping (Moderator) Making a Stovebolt Bed & Paint and Body Shop Forums | | Housekeeping (Moderator) Making a Stovebolt Bed & Paint and Body Shop Forums Joined: May 2015 Posts: 11,009 | Anybody willing to check their bezels with a magnet and reporting year and either magnetic (stainless or chromed steel) or non-magnetic (chromed brass)?
Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truckFollow this saga in Project JournalPhotos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together. | | | | | Joined: May 2007 Posts: 289 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2007 Posts: 289 | The bezels n my 50 are chrome plated brass.
Mike | | | | | Joined: May 2015 Posts: 11,009 Housekeeping (Moderator) Making a Stovebolt Bed & Paint and Body Shop Forums | | Housekeeping (Moderator) Making a Stovebolt Bed & Paint and Body Shop Forums Joined: May 2015 Posts: 11,009 | Thanks Huck Looks like 50 and 51 trucks came with chromed brass headlight bezels. (pretty small sample size though  ) Anyone else with a different year model have a magnet?
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Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truckFollow this saga in Project JournalPhotos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together. | | |
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