how to De-honeycombe lights??

[juniorbamf]

asking for help and advice here, as the title says, how do you de honeycombe the rear lights?
how the smurf do you do it.
all ive heard is that you have to put the lights into your oven.
sounds strange but if its correct its ok as i have my old set of lights to practice on and then watch them melt away :] ha

[B.Martin]

I\'m not sure what you mean mate, which rear lights do you have?

[juniorbamf]

replaced the standard boring lights with the kouki turbo ones, and you can de-honeycombe them to make them look clear, if you know what i mean.

[juniorbamf]

perfect example:

http://www.mazdarotaryclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71799&page=3&highlight=kouki

bottom of that thread you posted couple of pics, the sexy white fc has it done to its lights.

(i was tryin to put pics up but it wont let me :[  )

[Prof]

You put them in piping hot water - not in the oven (they will melt).
 
This will soften the \'hot melt\' glue that holds the light lens onto the plastic back cover - once you get it off - and it will take you ages - so be patient - you can remove the grey lensed sheet that sits between the bulb/reflector assembly and the outer coloured lenses.
 
It does mean the lights aren\'t as evenly lit as before and it also reduces viewing angle -but some people like the look of it.

[juniorbamf]

righto, thats great stuff thanks for the info,
ill give it a go on my old standard pair of lights 1st as an experiment,
obviously need to get the glue gun out or something to stick them back together i imagine??

[TiddlesRX7]

I\'m sure there is a write up on RX7club.com about this. They used the oven method.

[juniorbamf]

ill have a gander later and try find more info out, currently got half of 1 of my old lights in piping hot water so will see how that method turns out.

[papercutout]

Let us know, and after photos! I\'d wondered about doing mine.

[Prof]

Found my old link - lol
 
http://www.mazdarotaryclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28593

[juniorbamf]

good thread and information :]
the hot water method didnt seem to do much yesterday but i think ill try it again today but also try and attack it with a screwdriver at the same time.
however i do think using a proper heat gun would work out best.

[B.Martin]

Oven on low is supposed to be good, my mate did this withe his Mk2 Golf lights and they looked uber cool.

[juniorbamf]

i am rather tempted to put them in the oven just to see what happens, ill definately give it a go if the other methods dont work.

[juniorbamf]

right i got bored, and its a good job i did get bored because i tried the oven method and i am to offically say that its TOTALLY AWESOME...
after about 15mins at a low heat you can start to seperate the light lens from the plastic cover, half of it didnt seperate so easily so put it back into the oven for 5 mins more. just make sure to keep an eye on everything as i imagine the heat could start to warp the plastic.

however on my old lights the honeycombe stuff is built onto the lenses itself so im not sure how you would remove it apart from maybe heating that up and then scraping it off or something,

not sure if its different on the kouki lights or not but i doubt it will be.

(also i do have pictures of this but i cnt seem to get them onto here, no idea how its done, not sure if its because im just a guest?)

[B.Martin]

If you use something like photobucket you should be able to post pics using the little yellow icon at top of the message box.