Replacing Beehive taillight socket

[Daryl Bertram]

I need to replace a couple of the sockets on my PreA's beehive taillights and I see that Stoddard sells the sockets single and double. Are they press fit in the original bases or soldered in? I don't see any vendors that sell the 6 volt single/double bases. Much appreciated.

[Jules Dielen]

The socket can be 6v or 12v, that ia irrelevant. It's the bulb that has voltage.

[Jim Liberty]

A spot of solder will keep it from moving. Or JB Weld .....Jim.

[John Brooks]

Almost Any 1156 socket can be modified to fit, the sockets is soldered to the base.

[Spencer Harris]

I need to replace a couple of the sockets on my PreA's beehive taillights and I see that Stoddard sells the sockets single and double. Are they press fit in the original bases or soldered in? I don't see any vendors that sell the 6 volt single/double bases. Much appreciated.

Daryl,
I couldn't get the double fixture number to come up on the Stoddard site, so I sourced both the single and double fixtures from Roger Bray.
Some details on this thread viewtopic.php?f=1&t=49932&p=355643&hili ... ve#p355643
and a couple more pictures here. I used a razor knife to peel the solder off, and a 3/8" socket drive with my drill press to push the sockets out and reversed the process to press the old and new fixtures in after nickel plating the bases.

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[Mike Wilson]

Nicely done!

Mike

[Daryl Bertram]

Thank you all for the advice! Spencer I was sure that you had a pictorial of this and looked back through your posts but not far enough. Much thanks.