Some Days the Bear Eats You...

[BButturff]

My headlights and parking lights (incandescent bulbs) of my 1931 were working just fine. However, I removed the lenses to clean the inside and noticed that the headlight bulb filaments were not horizontal. In other words, the filaments in both headlight bulbs were "clocked" at about 10 and 4. So I removed the reflectors and found that the headlight sockets did not "key" into the reflectors to keep them from turning when the focus screw is turned as they should. In fact, the key on the socket seems to be about 1/4" short of reaching the slot in the reflector in spite of the focus screw being backed all the way out. The headlight buckets, reflectors and hardware all appear to be correct for a 1931.


So my question is, was there ever a time when repop headlight reflectors were made too shallow? Or maybe the headlamp socket made too short? If not, what could be going on here?