Author Topic: cleaning instrument faces, needle restoration  (Read 1775 times)

Offline Sunlitgold68

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cleaning instrument faces, needle restoration
« on: January 17, 2010, 11:07:32 PM »
What can you use to clean the black faces of your instruments without causing any fine looking scratches? Looks like a very fine layer of "dust" covers the instrument faces.

Going to paint the red line back on my speedometer face, what do most people use? Was thinking testors red/orange fluorescent.
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Re: cleaning instrument faces, needle restoration
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2010, 06:46:29 AM »
A good hobby store the sells plastic model paints. [Any one with a tach should not put too much on as it could effect the reading].

Offline rockhouse66

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Re: cleaning instrument faces, needle restoration
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2010, 09:21:02 AM »
NPD has the paint in their current catalog but I haven't used it.  Might be a convenient place to buy it if you are ordering something else.
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Offline cobrajetchris

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Re: cleaning instrument faces, needle restoration
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2010, 12:40:30 PM »
I would recommend sending the gauges out for restoring by a reputable company that deals in this. I used AUTO INSTRUMENTS and they did a nice job. I did have some minor issues with them but they did correct. The black on the gauges are probably faded to a grey from the sun and most likely the speedometer head needs to be rebuilt. AUTO INSTRUMENTS did a great job silk screening the faces. This is a fairly expensive process but it looks very correct.
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