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Show i EASY WAY TO j FOGUSLIGHTS 'Rough and Ready Method h ! Available to Motorist With a Little Time Fortunately, a rough-and-ready and fairly reliable method of focusing is available tp anybody who doesn't shy a.t a little bother, says Ernest Color In 'Motor Life Magazine. Stand the car on level ground, fifty feet from a vertical surface, such as tho side of a building, a fence or the-garago door. Mark two crosses on this surface: tho horizontal Unes of tho crosses should bo forty-two Inches from the grouna While tho distance botween the vertical verti-cal lines should bo equal to tho distance dis-tance between the lamps of your car. Remove tho covers or lenses of the lamp, train tho light on tho two marks and focus the lamps by changing thq location of tho bulbs until you obtain the smallest cirdo of clear light centered cen-tered on the crosses. Check Alignment. As long as tho Jjght circle on the wall shows a black spot In tho center your bulb is too far back in the reflector; re-flector; as long'as that circlo remains fuzzy, streaked or without sharply defined de-fined edges, proper focus has not been obtained. Hfio crosses Incidentally Incidental-ly enable you to check up the alignment align-ment of your lamps. Frequently they aro tilted upward or downward, or sideways. After" focusing the non-glaro non-glaro or plain lenses may be replaced and your lamps aro as efficient as they can bo with the equipment you carry. But, as long as you aro anxlousj to have properly focused lamps tho focusing has to be done again when you change or renew lampbulbs. Fan ft of Keflcctor. While It grieves me to inject this discordant note, candor nevertheless compels the statement that some mo-' torisls will find It practically impossible impossi-ble to obtain a clear white spot of ! light when focusing their lamps. In these cases the fault lies with the reflector, re-flector, which may have been turned out by a manufacturer who, In all likelihood would not recognize a para-blold para-blold if It were presented to him by a process server. Everything that gilt-' lers with a nice, shiny coat of nickel plating is not necessarily a parabolic lamp reflector. When your lamps happen to be saddled with reflectors of this description all you can do is I to focus your lamps until you obtain ' the nearest approach to a clear, white I circle of light- |