shipping, payment, contact person, additional product or services needed to process your order). Include your name, address, telephone number, and any specific instructions regarding your order (I.e. If you have European lights needing resilvering and the lenses are crimped into the reflectors, we can remove and replace them at an extra charge. Please remove lenses, sockets, bulbs and gasket materials before sending in your reflectors. There is a 25% additional charge for this service. ![]() Rush orders can be processed within 3 weeks but we cannot guarantee that service. The shop rate for these services is $80.00/hr.Turn around time is approximately 4-6 weeks from the time we receive the reflectors. We also offer disassembly and reassembly. Reflectors that have dents, old gasket material and heavy coatings will take extra labor to prepare for re-silvering. Pitted steel reflectors are copper plated and then hand sanded to remove the pits which adds to the cost of processing steel reflectors. Some light pitting can be silvered over, but the pits will often still be visible. Steel reflectors usually cost more to re-silver because they are copper plated before being silvered to achieve proper adhesion and reflective capabilities and to fill rust pitting. Steel reflectors are often rusted and require bead blasting. To re-silver brass reflectors we chemically clean, polish, silver plate and then finish polish them. To determine if your reflectors are brass use a magnet, if it won’t stick it is brass and in some very rare cases even aluminum. ![]() Most original reflectors were made of brass. ![]() Silver plating was originally the most effective way of plating reflectors and is still used here today at Steve’s to achieve the superior reflective capabilities versus using chrome or other materials. For 30 plus years we have been offering the service of re-silvering headlight, taillight and cowl light reflectors back to factory specifications.
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