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homemade dials...

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:18 pm
by ColinP
wasnt liking the km/h and the tacky overlay on my speedo :down: so i thought i would knock up my own dials :grin:
so with photoshop a printer and laminator here's what i came up with....

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homemade dials...

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:22 pm
by hannakournikova
Not bad at all. Curios to see how they perform at night.

Re: homemade dials...

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 2:38 am
by Neosophist
Hey they look good!

How are they at night?

I made dials for my NC24 but to get them to work good at night i had to make a clear acrylic disc for a new dial and then print the numbers onto transparent film which i bonded to it.

Re: homemade dials...

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 6:38 pm
by vfrman
Those look awesome! You should sell them.....

Re: homemade dials...

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:19 pm
by ColinP
Cheers for the replys :grin:

never took a foto wth standard speedo bulbs at night just with blue led's but the standard ones looked ok too..
the original speedo disks are used, i just scraped the black paint/numbers of them so i was left with a clear plastic disk, just had to stick the new faces on to the disks..


night foto...

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gonna take them back off again and mess about with the reflectors in the light housing, led's give a patchy light as the bulbs are so bright, didnt have that problem wth the standard bulbs....
:?:

Re: homemade dials...

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:36 pm
by hardnutdvd
vfrman wrote:Those look awesome! You should sell them AT A VERY VERY LOW PRICE.....
fixed that for you :grin:
:plus:

Re: homemade dials...

Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 3:39 am
by Vfr400/tbird
Wouldn't mind doing this with my nc21's clocks which are also in kMH how easy is it to remove the clocks and fit the dials, any tricks or tips, I don't wana mess them up but the bulb in the speedos gone anyway so need to take em off to fix that!

Re: homemade dials...

Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 7:43 am
by mightysprocket
Cool, Are the clocks backlit?

Re: homemade dials...

Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 12:10 pm
by iDemonix
They look quite nice but you REALLY could of picked a better font :P

Re: homemade dials...

Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 2:44 pm
by richhemmings
:plus:

Love it.
Assuming you scanned in the old as a template?

Think this is a tidy lil job for an afternoon.... :)

I'm diggin' the font by the way! Good Job :peace: