Hiya Uncle Old Duke and Maplebones,

Sure Happy it's Monday!

I've not used the two part epoxy (resin & hardener) for tail lights or for anything in a long time. So long as you clean the mating surfaces, and and rough them up, through the chemical (annealed?) weld that failed where the white reverse lens separates from the tail lamp reflector body is rough, I guess it'd be okay.

I'd like to futz with Oldduke's Gorilla glue as a repair to tail lights. As it is UV-resistant, and I guess clear (I thought it was sort of yellow to brown in color, yet foams a bit as it eats the water, yes?). At least Gorilla Glue, like your two-part epoxy, is not all chemically solvent malodorous for a day as the Goop is.

You can still find 240 in the boneyards. The Row52 affiliated yunkyard here in St. Loogey.

Also, on eBay (ePray?), I find a persistent listing for the red lower, outer lenses for the later 240 sedan wrap-around tail lights, at least when last I looked. I don't see amber turn lenses or the other lenses. Though I do see like white reverse lenses for 200-700-900 that came off in a yunkyard, or are new, on ePray, when last I looked in the prior intervening years.

As for removing a broken lens, that has remnants still secured to the tail lamp reflector body, and I'd not done this in forever, use small tools to remove small sections so you get closer to the recessed groove, of channel, in the tail light, and well, more small tools, pointy ones, to remove and scrap away the broken lens. Though when breaking away pieces of remaining lens, it can be secured such that it it would break off section of the black ABS plastic reflector body. Maybe use something like dental tools to clean the channel. I dunno if a dremel would be controllable enough to do the task. There may be better manual and small power tools, like that used with model building for model railroad, that could prove useful.

I keep looking for tech writer jobs in the Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire. Oooph, I'd enjoy the snow. I have a built-winter coat year round now, that I should shed, as I'd done so before several times! Fun to do a *little* slip and slide in the snow, yet prove Volvo 240 again is good in the snow, even with all-season radials (yet snow wheels in the cargo area, at the ready, with shovel and hoe).

St. Louis is a sheet-hole, utterly. Unless you are one of the haves. In spite of three university diplomas terminating in a master's, I remain one of the have-nots.

As a cure to one of my prior 1980s resident laments of the region with the arches and the Cardinals former football and current baseball teams, at least one can buy St. Louis style pizza in the grocery frozen section Yet best to buy from the Imo's store in downtown at 17th and Delmar streets.

I hold my tongue, as employers with background checkers may find my occasional-times bombastic commentary. I'm sure they do.

Questions?

Hope that helps.

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