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gauge needle paint who makes it ?
i,am restoring my gauge cluster and all of the gauges pointers are very faded. who sells the correct color pointer paint ?
bob
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Re: gauge needle paint who makes it ?
If you go to a local hobby shop you can probably find small bottles of florescent orange paint. The color I found is not exactly correct but looks very good. The needles that I painted about ten years ago are just now starting to fade a little. Be careful not to paint the needles too heavily since some gauges are very sensative to needle weight.
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Join Date: May 2004
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Re: gauge needle paint who makes it ?
I used my daughters fluorescent orange nail polish. Worked like a charm!
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Re: gauge needle paint who makes it ?
testors model paint works great!
Frank
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Re: gauge needle paint who makes it ?
i used some trafic marking paint i had on the shelf
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Re: gauge needle paint who makes it ?
ive used testors chevy orange from a model i was working on
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Re: gauge needle paint who makes it ?
The wife has a nail polish called "Cajun Shrimp" - she looked at me funny when I asked to borrow it - then, she asked if most truck guys had nail polish in their tool boxes..
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Re: gauge needle paint who makes it ?
I just picked up some House of Colors neon orange model paint at wallyworld yesterday. It looks like it will do the job.
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Re: gauge needle paint who makes it ?
I used the testors florescent orange as well. As long as you do all of them it will work fine
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Re: gauge needle paint who makes it ?
Any Corvette Supply. You can try Zip Corvette Supply or a gauge restoration shop could sell you some.
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Re: gauge needle paint who makes it ?
I used Testers from Wally World.
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