Rayline Searchlight Parts

[Jumpinthewaterisfine]

TEN GRAND TO REPLACE MY SEARCHLIGHT? Better get out the polish and take care of the one I got!

1977 Hatteras DC
"Theyachtwegot'

 

[Tim Powell]

Hi guys i have no interest at all in these lights but after reading this post and replies . I believe i saw three of the beast in a local salvage shop. You can call Ron Or Barbara. Here you go.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rusty-Rons-Marine-Surplus/172330982813831

Hint Ron knows more about old things than Barbara...

 

[Dreamboat]

Finally got the light back together and mounted on the boat.

 

[SKYCHENEY]

Now that is how it's supposed to look!!! Outstanding!

 

[tracy]

who did the work for you it looks great

 

[holtcl]

Nice- now you need to get a nice zippered canvas cover for it. I've got one and still need to polish the light ~3x a year to keep it looking that way.

Cheryl
Cinderella
1971 53 MY

 

[av8torrich]

Wow!! That looks great!

Many years ago, I used to work on old Navy Dead Reckoning Tracers (DRT). They had many gears, and belts. Other than the X, Y worm gear we were able to find most of the parts from the following outfit:

http://www.wmberg.com/

If in the future you or someone else runs into this problem, you may want to see if berg offers what you need (no affiliation).

 

[Dreamboat]

who did the work for you it looks great

I took the the light apart a la Sky's example of a few years back, then took the pieces to a place in Toronto, who re-chromed all the pieces. I sent the reflective mirror to New York to have it re-silvered. The problem with that was, some of the back surface was stained too much to get a 100% result on the re-silvering, but it came out a lot better than it was.
Chroming was $400 and re-silvering was $50.

 

[Dreamboat]

Nice- now you need to get a nice zippered canvas cover for it. I've got one and still need to polish the light ~3x a year to keep it looking that way.

Cheryl
Cinderella
1971 53 MY

I'm having a new cover made as we speak.

 

[Sailor John]

Dreamboat, your searchlight is awesome! I have same model and it needs a rechrome job too. I am in Toronto area, who did the rechrome for you? I may have mine done next year too.

 

[Dreamboat]

John

I had it done at Jim's Polishing and Buffing. You can google the website and address in Scarborough.

 

[Sailor John]

Super! Thanks!
Jims is where a friend of mine said to go too, so its a win.
SJ