Front T/S Lenses, what diff types are there? Options

[dlo914]

ive got a set of glass front turn signal lenses that came with the car...today i took a glance at them and decided i had to get rid of them and get a nice stock set. SO...the question now is what types are there? ive seen the ones that are 3/4 orange and 1/4 white...what else is there? and if someone has a clean set (any kind) lying around PM or email me with a pic and price...thanks - Dan....O AND MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR !!! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif)

[scotty914]

QUOTE (Jaiderenegadesimpson V8 914 @ Dec 27 2004, 10:34 AM)

I emailed scott thacher about reproducing rear lenses and he said they were easy even without the external screw, just required the originals to make a mold. Felix

i dont need other people to pay for the molds and stuff but i would need enough people who want to make it worth it. basicly the way i price things like this are the first five sets cover the start up costs. for some thing like rear lenes the molds would be about 50 bucks per side, so 100 for molds. then about 20 bucks per lens for material or 40 a set. so the works out to 300 my cost to do 5 sets. now we take in to thought about the 2 sets that have flaws that can not be sold, theres another 80 bucks down the drain. total now is 380. then to get the materials to my house you add in shipping of about 20. now we are up to 400 bucks and 20 to 30 hours of work.

at five sets i am out my time, unless i charge 150 per set ( or something like that ) then we figure that 5 sets at 150 each set is 750 bucks minus 400 start up, leaves me 350 for about 20 to 30 hours of work. who here makes 10 to 12 bucks an hour. now after the initial run of 5 i would make 110 per set at one hour time involved which is not bad.

now if some one else wanted to pay for the molds i would do it for them but i retain the molds forever and still sell then to them at that price and they can mark them up. i would only do the the parts for them until they released em.

this sounds like it sucks for the money guy, but look at it this way if he markes them up to 200 a set, he makes 50 a set, and after 8 sets he breaks even, and then it all money for basicly nothing after that

sorry for this being so long but i have received a few emails and pm's regarding making stuff, that i wanted all those people to see my point of veiw

and doing all clear lenses is 3 steps less that red/white ones. because i dont need 2 different molds per lens, unless i just paint em ( no way )

if you all want we can do a group buy thing here, ever body send one person 150 bucks, that person send me 400 to make up the molds and first run, which as they get shipped i get the rest of the money from each person through the money holder. if i go away and everybody's ( lets say 10 people ) only out 40 bucks, but i refuse to do a prepurchase order where i get all the money up front, just so people dont start saying i ripped them off when something takes alittle longer than i/we thought

oh and i have a set of lenses for the masters