PeytonM Posted June 27 Report Posted June 27 Any suggestions for a replacement, maybe an elf? Mooney 201, serial #24-3114 LASAR shows no stock. ($185) I emailed LPAero Plastics. Quote
201Mooniac Posted June 27 Report Posted June 27 Did you try James Gallagher? https://www.gallagheraviationllc.com/Replacement-Lenses_c_260.html 1 Quote
N201MKTurbo Posted June 27 Report Posted June 27 I went to the Home Depot and got a piece of polycarbonate and cut it out to match. Then I heated it with a heat gun and bent it over the side of a Home Depot bucket until the curvature matched. $5 of parts and about an hour of labor. 4 Quote
PT20J Posted June 27 Report Posted June 27 I believe Great Lakes Aero Products was the OEM. https://www.glapinc.com/Mooney/m20j.htm Quote
warren.huisman Posted June 28 Report Posted June 28 Great Lakes aero is the place to buy. It is who makes them. If you are in the area, you can pick it up from the factory. Interesting to seehttps://www.glapinc.com/Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote
PeytonM Posted June 28 Author Report Posted June 28 Any suggestions on preventing cracking at the screw holes? Has anyone used rubber washers or grommets to reduce stress cracks? (I know: don’t tightened the screws so much.) Quote
natdm Posted June 28 Report Posted June 28 14 hours ago, N201MKTurbo said: I went to the Home Depot and got a piece of polycarbonate and cut it out to match. Then I heated it with a heat gun and bent it over the side of a Home Depot bucket until the curvature matched. $5 of parts and about an hour of labor. Please do this for the wingtip lens as well and show me how $385 for those. Jesus. Quote
PT20J Posted June 28 Report Posted June 28 1 hour ago, PeytonM said: Any suggestions on preventing cracking at the screw holes? Has anyone used rubber washers or grommets to reduce stress cracks? (I know: don’t tightened the screws so much.) The landing light lens is polycarbonate and doesn’t crack as easily as acrylic. The lens on the cowl doesn’t have screw holes. If you have the wing landing lights, just don’t overtighten the screws. Quote
N201MKTurbo Posted June 28 Report Posted June 28 5 hours ago, natdm said: Please do this for the wingtip lens as well and show me how $385 for those. Jesus. For those we would need to build a plug to slump them over, a hot box to soften the plastic sheet and a vacuum box to suck them down. It can all be built with stuff from the Home Depot. You could 3D print the plug. Quote
PT20J Posted June 28 Report Posted June 28 4 hours ago, PeytonM said: Mine does. Maybe it’s not original. My 1978 J lens was retained by the metal trim which attached with screws, but there were no holes in the plastic except for the three drain holes. GLAP lists two cowl lenses depending on serial number, but the pictures for both show no holes. Anyone else have a cowl landing light lens with holes in the plastic? Quote
PeytonM Posted June 28 Author Report Posted June 28 Hmm. Its original. 1989 J. I guess I’ll have to drill the holes. Quote
PT20J Posted June 28 Report Posted June 28 9 minutes ago, PeytonM said: Hmm. Its original. 1989 J. I guess I’ll have to drill the holes. I notice the LASAR picture shows holes and LASAR gets them from GLAP so maybe the difference between the two GLAP part numbers is holes or no holes and the GLAP photo is wrong. You could call GLAP or I believe Gallagher is now a GLAP distributer and he may know. Quote
Utah20Gflyer Posted June 28 Report Posted June 28 10 hours ago, PeytonM said: Any suggestions on preventing cracking at the screw holes? Has anyone used rubber washers or grommets to reduce stress cracks? (I know: don’t tightened the screws so much.) Sharp edges tend to propagate cracks so bevel all of the edges - holes and circumference. Eventually it will crack as it ages but it will reduce the likelihood of cracks. I also made my own from Lexan (Polycarbonate). I used my old one as the template. It was a very easy job. Quote
Brian2034 Posted June 30 Report Posted June 30 On 6/28/2025 at 2:45 PM, N201MKTurbo said: For those we would need to build a plug to slump them over, a hot box to soften the plastic sheet and a vacuum box to suck them down. It can all be built with stuff from the Home Depot. You could 3D print the plug. I made a jig with a small 1/8” sheet of stainless steel I had laying around. I bent the steel around a pipe with a similar curve to what I needed, put the jig in my kitchen oven at 250f with a piece of polycarbonate on it waited 15 minutes it came out great. Trimmed it to shape drilled the holes and done. 3 Quote
Pinecone Posted June 30 Report Posted June 30 @DonMuncy makes some landing light lenses. He damaged his mold trying to make one for my 1986 252. So I had to go with GLAP for the cowl mounted landing and taxi light (one lens). It came drilled and fit perfectly. Quote
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