mad_machine
mad_machine GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
7/11/17 9:33 p.m.

At work we more or less recently brought a VW bus back to some resemblance of life for a party we are going to have next Friday. I wish I had pics of it when it was first rolled into our storage building as it had spent the past decade or so out in the woods with a huge chunk cut out of the roof. The carps did a bang up job welding shut all the holes and making it look halfway decent.

in cutting corners though, all of the original trim is long gone, so we grafted in some PAR 64 lights where the headlights used to be. I wired them up today and decides to see how they looked when testing. Each one is 1000w but before you get excited, they need 120v and about 8.4 amps to work.

EvanR
EvanR SuperDork
7/11/17 11:55 p.m.

How did you get a 64 in a hole that was designed for a 56?

Neat trivia: the number after the "PAR" designation is the diameter of the lens in eights of an inch. So a 36 is 4 1/2", a 64 is 8", etc.

mad_machine
mad_machine GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
7/12/17 6:32 a.m.

PAR 56 is too small. It's only 7 inches in diameter. Original large round sealed beams are 7.5. As I stated above, the original trim was all missing, including the headlight mounts, we cut up two pairs of aluminum stove burner trim buckets and used them to sandwich the PAR lamps into the bucket.

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