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Re: Sealed Beams on SC

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:11 pm
by VinceD
I will try and check tomorrow and let you know.

Re: Sealed Beams on SC

Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 2:45 pm
by Matt Kirsch
Standard 4411/4511 "PAR36" sealed beams will fit the pancake housings with a little modification. All you need to do is follow my How-To up in the How-To forum.

I did the conversion on my Super H and they work great.

Re: Sealed Beams on SC

Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 9:50 pm
by Xperimental
Thanks Matt, I took a look at your "how to". I think I will try this approach with my 1956 Cub. Where can I find the gasket material you used?

Re: Sealed Beams on SC

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 2:01 pm
by Matt Kirsch
Those are replacement gaskets for the pancake light housings, purchased from OEM Tractor Parts.

Since then, I've found that the "sealed beam" lights are not sealed beams at all!!!

I have a bunch of burned out pancake bulbs, and I needed a lens for the conversion lights on my Dad's W-400.

The pancake bulb is a steel reflector crimped over a glass lens. Inside the "bulb" is a complete separate light bulb, like the ones inside the older-style bullet lights!!!

The problem is you can't get to the real light bulb without destroying the pancake bulb in the process.

For want of a $2 light bulb you have to throw away a $40+ pancake light... Who says non-serviceable, throwaway, proprietary, planned obsolescence is a new idea?

Re: Sealed Beams on SC

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 4:11 pm
by Xperimental
I have heard that it is possible to open the original sealed beam and replace the bulb, but I have never tried this. I will look for the gasket material at OEM. Thanks

Re: Sealed Beams on SC

Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 12:12 pm
by Matt Kirsch
One of my rainy-day projects is to figure out a way into one of those bulbs without destroying it, and rebuild it as one of those conversion bulbs.