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11-12-2005, 10:11 PM
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gauge needle painting
do you remove the needles or just paint them on the gauge any help app.if you have to remove them how do you do it
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11-12-2005, 10:17 PM
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Re: gauge needle painting
Pm BYRD, I think he is the resident expert on guages
 http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/member.php?u=15834
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11-12-2005, 10:18 PM
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its all about the +6 inches
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Re: gauge needle painting
Personally, I don't like removing them. Chance of breakage, and then there's the question of acurate placement on reassembly.
I get thick paper cut a slit in it, slide it under the needle and shoot the paint. |
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11-12-2005, 10:36 PM
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Re: gauge needle painting
thanks thats what ill do the paper thing
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11-12-2005, 10:49 PM
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Re: gauge needle painting
I only remove the speedo needle. The only reason for removing it is to clean, lube and reset it to zero. The other gauge needles can be removed but not advised as they will need to be either put back in the same spot ( which is very hard) or recalibrated. The paper idea or model paint and brush is easy to do. Lamar.
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11-13-2005, 08:45 AM
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Re: gauge needle painting
I had an old speedo gauge to try and get the needle off, and it broke off part of the shaft. So I then decided to just use glow orange paint with a brush and didn't pull off any needles. If you have a steady hand, you don't even have to cover the gauge face. Just don't use a big "glob" of the paint on them. Here's a picture of the paint I used. I got this at Wall-Mart. Works great!!
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11-13-2005, 09:51 AM
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Re: gauge needle painting
no paper needed, just a small hobby type brush for painting models and such, and a steady hand. Should take at least two, maybe three very thin coats as to not disfigure the needles from too much paint . I have found that the best way for me to remove the speedo needle is to pull up and twist downward towards the bottom of the speedo and they always pop right off and the gearing of the speede itself help to hold the shaft in place so that the needle should/will slip right off. Randy
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11-13-2005, 06:06 PM
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Re: gauge needle painting
So were the needles painted red or orange? I have seen flourescent model paint in both shades and I would like to know what is factory correct.
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11-13-2005, 06:51 PM
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Re: gauge needle painting
as far as I have ever seen.....orange.....
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11-13-2005, 08:12 PM
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its all about the +6 inches
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Re: gauge needle painting
I have always thought they were redish
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11-13-2005, 11:09 PM
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Re: gauge needle painting
I have a few NOS gauges are they are more orange than red, but I would not call it orange, but rather a redish orange.
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11-14-2005, 01:40 AM
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Re: gauge needle painting
use the end of a paper match instead of a paint brush...they're free.
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Re: gauge needle painting
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11-14-2005, 09:27 AM
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Re: gauge needle painting
I differ from all of you.
I use the paper with a slit like Andy recomended to avoid "needle trauma", but I use flourescent orange spray paint instead of brush on. It gives much smoother results than brushing does. I used to do the brush thing, this works better.
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