Now for the tricky part. The light bulb contacts were embedded in the epoxy that holds it into position because the whole unit was pressed together during the assembly process. Each wire that powers the light bulb leads is soldered to a spring clip that is then pushed onto the light bulb reflector when originally assembled. It's hard to explain but the light bulb contacts aren't able to accept solder so I would have to figure out some other way of connecting the wires directly to the bulb.
Here you can see the ceramic piece that is responsible for keeping the main wire section at a relatively manageable temperature as the bulbs put off a lot of heat themselves.
