Eyeball fresh air vents dismantle

[Robbie224]

Have a early 1971 1275GT it should have the chromed fresh air swivel direction vents.
In the past ones I have in mini have been hand painted a silver colour but no where near chrome but they are the rubber twist knob correct ones.
Does any one know if the eyeball assembly can be dismantled so I can get the directional vents out and chromed and refitted.
Thanks

[mk1]

66Traveller has done this successfully.

[Robbie224]

Easy to dismantle once removed?

[Niclas92]

I have done this with Innocenti air vents.
There is a ring, that holds the eyeball in place. This ring has some sort of "bajonett fittig", BUT it's also glued!
You need to break that glue away. I used a wide screwdriver to so this.
The glue is quite brittle and makes weird crunchy noises while doing this, but at least from my expierience the plastic wont break!

[Robbie224]

Thanks. Sounds risky but I'll give it ago .