The Search is Over

I finally got some time to polish off the Navy search light I've been "restovating." I had completed the shutter and tested the lamp, but the shutter let too much light through. I fixed that by adding a narrow piece of extruded aluminum to each shutter. This had several laudable effects:

• It's more like the original shutter design. 
• As the photo below shows, light leakage is minimal.
• The finished edge of the shutter looks better, 
• The added mass smooths out the operation.

 


A few other details had  to be attended to, like installing a handle and figuring out and recreating  the return spring.