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Re: NEED WHITE FACE GAUGES CAN DOES SOMEONE MAKE THEM??
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Posted by Mr TurboSaab (more from Mr TurboSaab) on Fri, 27 Jul 2001 02:14:39 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: NEED WHITE FACE GAUGES CAN DOES SOMEONE MAKE THEM??, Dylan, Thu, 26 Jul 2001 21:59:11
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You could make them yourself by getting hold of the instrument face (from a wreckers perhaps?) Scanning the the face on a desktop scanner, putting the image into photo-editor, converting to black & white, removing any unwanted markings and making the edges clearer...

You will need to invert the image (so that the black goes to white and white to black - you need to convert the normal image to black/white first, and then generate a negative of the image...

Then, go down to a local office supply shop and get some glossy vinyl, self adhesive A4 paper (like what they use for stickers) and run it through a laser printer for good results - you will also need to paint the hands on the gauges with a very thin artist's brush black so that the orange dials don't look silly :)

You can fit the stickers over the dials if you exercise extreme care and cut the holes with a hand held hole punch (works VERY well) -
Score lines from the holes to the edges with a sharp knife - these will be your tear lines so that you can remove the backing when you put the sticker on.

You will need to move pretty much everything to the 12:00 position (including the clock :P) and sticking the bottom first by putting the sticker over the gauges with the backing still on, and peeling off the backing against itself - this will allow you to line up the bottom of the sticker with the bottom of the guage cluster and get all of your alignment correct.

If you take a scan, be sure to put the artwork on the web so others can do this as well...


Cheers
Mr TurboSaab

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