Back to dash layout and gauges.
After Simon very kindly sent me a Turin shroud dash, I was able to transfer the layout onto a bit of MDF.
I then set about making some rather fetching gauges, indicator lights and switches using Autometer pictures and powerpoint drawing tool! End result a life size dash and hardware that I can fiddle around with as I like.
Now Autometer sell two sizes of speedo and tach, one at 127mm and one at 85ish. Anyway one is smaller than normal UK sourced gauges and one bigger.
Heres the small ones.
And the large ones.
Upshot, don't think I like either! And I need to paint the floor again!!
So the hunt continues for full sweep electrical gauges that I like with decent through the dial lighting.
Enter Kirkham http://www.thomaskirkham.com/gauges.html
Now these I like, classic design, full electric transducers and good through dial lighting, oh and °C temperature measurements. Just need to find out if its possible to change the bezel to something a little more IVA (note the change there from SVA) friendly.
3 comments:
Looks like we share taste in Gauges and Electrics. So, thanks for doing some research for me :-)
cheers,
marcel
Hey, no problem! How are you getting on?
Had a little battle with some upper joints, but that's all sorted now. I'm hoping to get this thing on wheels soon.
Garage is bloody cold though.
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