Re: how to repair a Milano/75 headlamp/light (or worse)

[JHertzman@domain.elided]

Jorge asked about repairing a chipped headlight, eliciting replies from John 
Katos and doug sedon. I have no direct knowledge, but before I shipped my 
back issues of "Racecar Engineering" magazine to a friend I photocopied a few 
ineresting culls. One (in Volume 7 #1) was on windscreen repairs for Class 1 
Touring Car and Super Touring teams by a British company called Esprit, using 
a resin system originally developed in the USA but further developed and now 
used around the world. I was particularly impressed that "the windscreen of 
one of the GT racecars running in the 1996 Le Mans 24 hours had been repaired 
no fewer than twenty times - - " and also that "The equipment meets or 
exceeds the British Standard for screen repairs (BSAU251-1994) and has ISO 
9002 international certification." (So, I snow easily - -) The process was 
involved enough, with particular resins, pressures, vacuums, UV lamps and 
fixtures that I wouldn't want to try to describe it, let alone do it, but it 
suggests that there are professionals (and equipment) around which can far 
surpass anything I could hope to accomplish with a tube of epoxy from K-Mart. 
A quick check of the phone book suggested that even in this relatively small 
town there are dozens of businesses worth checking out.

John H.
Raleigh, N.C.

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