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Old Aug 7, 2020 | 01:52 PM
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I've got an 18' dovetail car hauler. my son managed to knock the center clearance light out loading a car with hanging exhaust. I've looked everywhere I can think of to find a replacement. The original had a nice chrome metal cage to protect the lens, I can find the lens, but not the metal protection piece. I'd be willing to replace the entire 3 light cluster with something a bit more modern, but the metal cages seem to have gone away. I guess I can resolve myself to something cheap and easy to change, & just accept that as part of the cost of ownership. The originals have survived since the year 2000. Any suggestions?
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Old Aug 7, 2020 | 04:37 PM
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Optronic Armored Clearance LED

The armored LED's cost about twice as much as regular LED's (with decent output). When updating a trailer, I got a few feet of aluminum channel, cut to length, rounded the edges and drilled to mount Optronics' Thinline Miro-flex LED's. They are a standardized size and very common, the LED's from any mfg will fit the sockets.



These LED's are very bright, and the clear ones are a match for uncoated aluminum channel.

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Old Aug 7, 2020 | 05:10 PM
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That would tick all the boxes, thank you.
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