Aqua Signal 40 series Tri light and anchor light

[CalicoJack]

My lenses have crazes due to UV damage and I've just been quoted (brace yourself and take a deep breath) £92 yes really ninety two pounds for just the replacement lenses. Now that is some expensive plastic. Anyone know if this is correct and if so is there a way around the problem that does not involve so much pain?

 

[Sans Bateau]

I replaced mine with an Aquasignal LED version. I tried to clean my crazed one and it just collapsed in my hand.

 

[Fantasie 19]

My lenses have crazes due to UV damage and I've just been quoted (brace yourself and take a deep breath) £92 yes really ninety two pounds for just the replacement lenses. Now that is some expensive plastic. Anyone know if this is correct and if so is there a way around the problem that does not involve so much pain?

I have the exact same problem and found the exact same as you... I solved the problem by buying a cheap copy.. the damn things seem to fail every couple of years anyway!

I toyed with the idea of replacing the lens with clear plastic film well glued/sealed into the existing frame - bit of a faff though...

 

[CalicoJack]

Damn! I have a nasty feeling that that's what might happen to me, the unit feels very brittle? I was hoping that you might have a cunning plan to polish out the crazing.

 

[david_bagshaw]

My lenses have crazes due to UV damage and I've just been quoted (brace yourself and take a deep breath) £92 yes really ninety two pounds for just the replacement lenses. Now that is some expensive plastic. Anyone know if this is correct and if so is there a way around the problem that does not involve so much pain?

yes & no

 

[Stork_III]

Bite the bullet. £122.95 for a new one. http://www.seamarknunn.com/acatalog...514_952.html?gclid=CIee3vmvz78CFVIPtAodFFMANQ

 

[VicS]

Damn! I have a nasty feeling that that's what might happen to me, the unit feels very brittle? I was hoping that you might have a cunning plan to polish out the crazing.

Once its crazed its had it. It not just a surface effect that can't be polished out.
Crazing will seriously affect the light transmission and visible range and was one of the points to which attention was drawn in report into the loss of the Ouzo.

IIRC I paid about £80 for a complete new tricolor ( no all-round white ) a few years back. Which I then fitted with and LED "bulb" in place of the standard filament bulb.

In the same situation now I would I think be looking at the NASA Supernova lights

 

[rogerthebodger]

Damn! I have a nasty feeling that that's what might happen to me, the unit feels very brittle? I was hoping that you might have a cunning plan to polish out the crazing.

Same happened to me replaced with NASA LED but these failed so now gone back to Aqua signal with LED bulbs.

The crazing cannot be polished out as the crazing goes right through the plastic. You can only polish out surface scratches.

 

[CalicoJack]

Thanks for all the thoughts. Looks like a new unit with LED bulbs. I still think it's a lot of money for what it is.

 

[Topcat47]

I was also finding that the incandescent bulbs were failing, requiring a trip up the mast about twice a season. I replaced it with a lopolite tri-white. Best £200 I ever spent (they are more expensive now). I can cope with incandescents at deck level.