I have a CD25D with original brass "reading lights" below decks that maintain their position with brass discs threaded thru the bracket into to lamp itself. The discs are about the size of a 25-cent piece in diameter and thickness and are threaded metric M-6 thread. You can buy new units at West Marine, but they don't look as nice, are not as substantial and the adjustment knobs are not compatible. Does anyone have a source for these, or a suggestion on how I can make my original lamps more operational? Where does one go for metrically threaded brass anything?
thanks ahead.
Mimi Litsche
s/v Lifeline #54
mlitsche@hotmail.com
A Light in the Night?
Moderator: Jim Walsh
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D. Stump, Hanalei
Re: A Light in the Night?
Mimi,
Hanalei has her original cabin lights. If you are talking about the brass thumbscrew that holds the lamp in a particular position, I don't know where you could get one. But, what you might do is to remove the light from the bulkhead, and look inside the base, if I remember right, the manufacturers' label is in there. That might help you get the replacement part.
On Hanalei, some of the lamps, particularly the two lamps in the "V" berth, were pretty corroded. To fix that, I took them home, applied paint stripper to all the parts (there are about 10)to remove the clear coat on the parts(completely disassemble all parts). Then I polished them first with copper cleaner and then on a buffing wheel until they were like new. I then used a brass clear coat spray that I bought at Home Depot to protect the newly polished lamps. Took 'em back to the boat, hooked 'em up and they work and look like new. Oh, be careful not to get any of the paint stripper on the white paint inside the shade, it will remove that also, making refininshing that much more difficult.
The original equipment lamps were a quality peice of gear. It takes a little effort to restore them, but I think it was worth it. Hope this helps you......fair winds.......
Dave Stump
Captain Commanding
s/v Hanalei
Hanalei has her original cabin lights. If you are talking about the brass thumbscrew that holds the lamp in a particular position, I don't know where you could get one. But, what you might do is to remove the light from the bulkhead, and look inside the base, if I remember right, the manufacturers' label is in there. That might help you get the replacement part.
On Hanalei, some of the lamps, particularly the two lamps in the "V" berth, were pretty corroded. To fix that, I took them home, applied paint stripper to all the parts (there are about 10)to remove the clear coat on the parts(completely disassemble all parts). Then I polished them first with copper cleaner and then on a buffing wheel until they were like new. I then used a brass clear coat spray that I bought at Home Depot to protect the newly polished lamps. Took 'em back to the boat, hooked 'em up and they work and look like new. Oh, be careful not to get any of the paint stripper on the white paint inside the shade, it will remove that also, making refininshing that much more difficult.
The original equipment lamps were a quality peice of gear. It takes a little effort to restore them, but I think it was worth it. Hope this helps you......fair winds.......
Dave Stump
Captain Commanding
s/v Hanalei