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12-09-2008, 12:36 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Clarkrange Tennessee
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gauge needles?
When you guys rebuild a gauge cluster how and what do you guys use to repaint the gauge needles when they are faded? thanks Rick
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12-09-2008, 01:33 PM
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Rods
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Bryan, TX
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Re: gauge needles?
I used industrial marking paint (spray bomb)
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12-09-2008, 02:29 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Wells, Maine
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Re: gauge needles?
nail polish
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12-09-2008, 02:57 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Columbus, Ohio
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Re: gauge needles?
I went to the local hobby shop and bought a small bottle of testors chevy orange or red paint and the smallest brush I could find...
http://www.testors.com/products/137014 or http://www.testors.com/products/136975 Works great! |
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12-09-2008, 03:24 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Marysville Washington
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Re: gauge needles?
model paint and a small brush works really good and cheap.
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12-09-2008, 03:48 PM
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Re: gauge needles?
cut a slit in a piece of paper to cover everything but the needle, and use a small can of model spray paint
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12-09-2008, 03:58 PM
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Re: gauge needles?
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That's what I used. Came out nice 
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12-09-2008, 04:05 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Marysville Washington
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Re: gauge needles?
you should post some pics of the needles.
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