In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 28 Nov 2020 19:49:21 -0600, Hank Rogers
wrote:

rbowman wrote:
On 11/28/2020 02:13 PM, Steve W. wrote:
micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 28 Nov 2020 06:18:47 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 01:13:08 -0500, micky
wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 27 Nov 2020 18:05:44 -0600, Hank
Rogers
Remember when we had sealed beam headlights? Plain, cheap Glass.
And they never burned out.*** Though I decided to get fancy and I
replaced them once with halogen, and those did burn out.
Your memory of sealed beams is different than mine.

Well maybe I didn't drive as much as I could have.



Besides replacing a few on my own
cars, I saw many "one-eyed" cars on the road.* That's a rare sight
nowadays.

But I drive less now than I did then, and I was one-eyed twice
in the
last two years.*** Occasionally when I'm facing something
reflective, a
store window, certain cars, I test my headlights but I don't
know how
long they had been out.** There are enough street lights here that
unless I go to the next town at night, I can't tell by how well
I can
see.

The trade off with modern lighting is that to get brighter
lighting with
the smaller reflectors used they run the bulbs at a higher
voltage than
they used to. So an older sealed beam may have been tagged as a
12 volt.
but the filament was set up to run at 14 or higher. So the sealed
beams
tended to last a while, unless they were the cheap ones and in poor
mountings.


Also one fog light burned out. Will the police stop you for
that?* I
guess, if allowed, it would make a good excuse and they like to
stop
people.

Nope, fog lights are not required lighting. They can stop you for

Yep. Read my other post. You act like there is one law for the whole
country, and that you know what that law is. You're wrong on the first
and I doubt you're right about any state.

headlights, tail brake (although technically the laws state you
need two
rear facing brake lights so if the CHMSL is working they cannot
give you
a ticket for one out UNLESS it is also the turn lamp) And these
days for
not having them on in the rain.


A different situation: I'd bought an old Dodge pickup where someone
with big truck envy had installed clearance lights on the cab.
According to New Hampshire law while they certainly weren't
required if they were there they had to work.



So, remove them. Caulk the holes with RTV silicon.

Since they were added after manufacture, that would probably work, but
you never know and I'd check first. And actually it's easier to replace
a burned out bulb or two than to remove them.