>Has anybody found a better way to install the glass and trim ring than I
>have for those Lucas bullet type lamps used on early Spitfires (and surely

>other cars)?....

>Is there a mini version of the rope trick?  

I've never tried that, but that almost sounds like an interesting
idea.  Have you tired it with string?

>Some special tool that I can make instead of the small
>screwdriver that I am now using to get the blasted chrome retaining 
>ring on without scratching the paint when the small screwdriver 
>slips?

What I've done, is to take a popsicle stick and grind it,
so that there is a point or at least a lot thinner on one 
end, and used that like the screwdiver.

Good luck.

John
 
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     75 Bricklin SV1   77 Spitfire     71 Saab Sonett III
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