'71 reflectors

Hi Snowcrusher,

I was missing both on the left side of my ‘71 Nordic.  I just bought a set of orange and red 2 inch round reflectors at the auto parts store, measured the square out, and cut them on my coping saw, then used the belt sander to put a beveled edge around them.  

Once I had cut them, the adhesive did not want to stay on, so I removed it, and glued them in place with a dab of RTV.  There was a paper film left behind after removing the adhesive pad, so I spread a very thin layer of RTV on it first, to kind of seal it, as if I removed it, there wouldn’t be a white background behind the reflector plastic. They lasted the winter, and are still firmly in place (just looked at them today.)

Note:  they actually look really good in person, if you click on the picture, the reflector is refracting light in different directions, in case anyone was curious as to the look of them in the photo.  The circular reflector, I believe, was actually divided up in to quarters, and refracted light slightly different for each quarter.  I cut them out of dead center of the reflectors, so depending on light shone at them, you may see a quarter square brighter than the others. (But they actually reflect from steeper side angles than the originals)