screen accurate ammeter needle color
Oct 9, 2011 13:33:58 GMT -5
Post by sigmfsk on Oct 9, 2011 13:33:58 GMT -5
pic 1: top = bluesmobile, bottom = Marin County's new speedo
Of note:
Mileage: 72307.6
Ammeter needle more yellow than fuel gauge / speedo needle
Ammeter needle shorter than stock, and further away from the face than stock
Here's what I did:
The first thing that seems to fade on a Monaco speedo is the speedo needle. Then the face is next (turns orange), then later the fuel gauge and ammeter needles fade.
I have my original Marin County cert speedo, which I planned on using, but I stumbled across a 74 cert speedo with an unfaded face and was eventually able to swing a deal to trade some parts for it. I need the negotiating practice, as I'm still having no luck with my 200kph speedo trading, but that's another story.
Pic 2: I got some red, orange, and yellow needle paint.
Pic 3: The orange on the speedo needle is due to thin sliver of paint on the BACK of the needle. And the color flows through the transparent needle. With the faded needle, the coat of paint is still there (as can be seen on the back of the needle), but the color has faded. So I wet sanded off the paint, then painted a new thin coat on the back.
pic 4: the gauges (notice the 1974 Ammeter face is attached to the 1976 Ammeter body with screws instead of rivets), with plastic between the needles and faces. Ready for painting.
pic 5: after painting.
pic 6: I tried a few different ways of "dirtifying" the needles to get them bluesmobile-like, but what worked best for me was to shave pencil graphite on a file, and then "paint" it on. A little dab'll do ya!
In pic 1, the needle doesn't look particularly yellow, but you can see in pic 5 that it's different. I think I have a pretty good match, other than my odometer wheels are faded (not as white as the bluesmobile). I wonder if they're faded, or just dirty. Something to investigate later.
From archived info here:
www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/forum/topic/8327-theres-a-new-marin-county-sheriff-in-town/page__view__findpost__p__120791
Of note:
Mileage: 72307.6
Ammeter needle more yellow than fuel gauge / speedo needle
Ammeter needle shorter than stock, and further away from the face than stock
Here's what I did:
The first thing that seems to fade on a Monaco speedo is the speedo needle. Then the face is next (turns orange), then later the fuel gauge and ammeter needles fade.
I have my original Marin County cert speedo, which I planned on using, but I stumbled across a 74 cert speedo with an unfaded face and was eventually able to swing a deal to trade some parts for it. I need the negotiating practice, as I'm still having no luck with my 200kph speedo trading, but that's another story.
Pic 2: I got some red, orange, and yellow needle paint.
Pic 3: The orange on the speedo needle is due to thin sliver of paint on the BACK of the needle. And the color flows through the transparent needle. With the faded needle, the coat of paint is still there (as can be seen on the back of the needle), but the color has faded. So I wet sanded off the paint, then painted a new thin coat on the back.
pic 4: the gauges (notice the 1974 Ammeter face is attached to the 1976 Ammeter body with screws instead of rivets), with plastic between the needles and faces. Ready for painting.
pic 5: after painting.
pic 6: I tried a few different ways of "dirtifying" the needles to get them bluesmobile-like, but what worked best for me was to shave pencil graphite on a file, and then "paint" it on. A little dab'll do ya!
In pic 1, the needle doesn't look particularly yellow, but you can see in pic 5 that it's different. I think I have a pretty good match, other than my odometer wheels are faded (not as white as the bluesmobile). I wonder if they're faded, or just dirty. Something to investigate later.
From archived info here:
www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/forum/topic/8327-theres-a-new-marin-county-sheriff-in-town/page__view__findpost__p__120791