alibaba 68 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 I've had to replace a halogen bulb in one of my cabin lights. While I was at it , I thought I would replace all the halogens with equivalent 2-pin LEDs. Much less heat - and less power as well. The lights are fitted by pushing them into the hole, compressing two springs, which then spring back and retain the light in the deckhead. I followed some advice with the first one, just to keep pulling until the springs collapsed. Ha!- what that does is to break one of the springs, which are only held on by light rivets. Then when you replace you now need a small screw to keep the light up. They're nice lights and I don't want to replace them. I feel sure that there is something I'm missing here, so does anyone have a method for getting the darn things out? The photos show one in place and one pulled down as far as it will go. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mcp 32 Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 Does the headliner come off? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alibaba 68 Posted July 24, 2022 Author Share Posted July 24, 2022 Thanks, I like the lateral thinking, but the deckhead has a built =in hollow box the length of the cabin. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CarpeDiem 323 Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 Do you have a photo of the spring setup? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stray Cat 5 Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 In the past I’ve had similar lights where the bezel around the lens unscrews without having to remove entire light fitting from the cavity…? Sort of press firmly and turn? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alibaba 68 Posted July 25, 2022 Author Share Posted July 25, 2022 Thanks, I'll get a photo of the one I ruined tomorrow- it was blowing too hard to get on today. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ballystick 66 Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 Looks like you could fabricate a thin sheet of plastic about the size of an ice cream container lid without edges, fold it around the lamp and slide it upwards pushing the spring upwards allowing one side of the lamp to drop below the surrounding housing and then the lamp can be removed by tilting 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alibaba 68 Posted July 26, 2022 Author Share Posted July 26, 2022 Pix of the spring, one each side. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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