Spent a few hours this morning repairing one of my retro headlights. The black gear for the vertical adjuster broke free, and the stationary mount started to break loose, pulling a good section of the base with it, causing a nice semi circular crack.
JB Welded the stationary mount, front and back. Hope that holds, and I don't have to pull the reflector bowl again.
Managed to get the brass screw for the vertical adjuster stuck in the black gear, from testing to see how well it would seat by tapping it in place with a hammer before going to the adhesive route. Opted to try using a 3" machine screw, which looked promising, but I couldn't thread the nylock nut on to keep the screw in place. Back to the brass screw. Drilled a hole in a piece of scrap MDF, threaded the screw into it, and used the claw from a hammer to pop the gear back off, which thankfully didn't get any damage.
Threaded the screw into the headlight, seated the gears in place, put the headlight on the floor and tapped the screw with my hammer a couple of times, and now it's good as it was before. Planned on doing actual retrofit stuff this morning, so much for that
Carlos is on his way over now, we're going to remove the head unit in his XUV to get a stuck CD out. Chill for a few hours, then head out for wings and UFC tonight.