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 Mar 15, 2006 - 5:36 PM
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Anyone have red-painted needles day and night pics?
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Mar 15, 2006 - 5:43 PM
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Enthusiast Joined Dec 31, '04 From white hall, Maryland Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
i got red needles. but no pics
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Mar 16, 2006 - 2:13 AM
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QUOTE(trdproven @ Mar 15, 2006 - 11:36 PM) [snapback]408111[/snapback] Anyone have red-painted needles day and night pics? Here, painted deedles and gauge numbers... (openly, I'm not satisfied much... it's not bad but IMHO not great  ) 
This post has been edited by malpaso: Mar 16, 2006 - 4:13 AM -------------------- No more replicas... This is evolution... This is SS-four :)
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Mar 16, 2006 - 2:21 AM
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QUOTE(malpaso @ Mar 15, 2006 - 11:13 PM) [snapback]408432[/snapback] Here, painted deedles and gauge numbers... (openly, I'm not satisfied much... it's not bet but IMHO not great ) I think that looks great at night. Nice work. 
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Mar 21, 2006 - 3:46 PM
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Did u change the bulbs at all. How did u paint them? -John
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Mar 21, 2006 - 5:02 PM
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 Enthusiast Joined Jan 28, '05 From Redondo Beach, CA Currently Offline Reputation: 86 (100%) |
use red 194s in the gauge and you get red needles!
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Mar 22, 2006 - 1:57 AM
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Enthusiast Joined Feb 3, '06 From Czech Republic (Europe) Currently Offline Reputation: 56 (100%) |
QUOTE(LewFX @ Mar 21, 2006 - 11:02 PM) [snapback]411051[/snapback] use red 194s in the gauge and you get red needles! "red 194s"??? More information please
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Mar 22, 2006 - 2:03 AM
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Enthusiast Joined Feb 3, '06 From Czech Republic (Europe) Currently Offline Reputation: 56 (100%) |
QUOTE(Celica_Kid95st @ Mar 21, 2006 - 9:46 PM) [snapback]411023[/snapback] Did u change the bulbs at all. How did u paint them? -John I tried that (painting white bulbs to red), but effect was desperate... Paint burned and bulbs shine pink-white color... So I wish to find red LED's with sufficient illumination and diffusion effect to light gauges uniformly... (oh and of course be able to buy them in CZ... p.s.: availability in all common japanese or american supermarkets is not interesting for me  )
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Mar 22, 2006 - 10:15 AM
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Enthusiast Joined Jan 28, '05 From Redondo Beach, CA Currently Offline Reputation: 86 (100%) |
194 is the size of the bulb found at any auto part store, just look for red, take out your green capped bulbs in the guage and put in the red
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Mar 22, 2006 - 11:25 AM
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Enthusiast Joined Feb 24, '05 From Pittsburgh, PA Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
Did u paint the numbers? -John
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Mar 23, 2006 - 2:25 AM
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Enthusiast Joined Feb 3, '06 From Czech Republic (Europe) Currently Offline Reputation: 56 (100%) |
QUOTE(LewFX @ Mar 22, 2006 - 4:15 PM) [snapback]411363[/snapback] 194 is the size of the bulb found at any auto part store, just look for red, take out your green capped bulbs in the guage and put in the red I see... Here we call those bulbs W5W .  I tried to buy any color, but approachable here are normal (white-yellow shine), "cool blue" (bright white shine) and orange only  QUOTE(Celica_Kid95st @ Mar 22, 2006 - 5:25 PM) [snapback]411404[/snapback] Did u paint the numbers? -John Yes, numbers are painted too... (bright white bulb (that "silver vision" from philips) and numbers+needles paint red) 
This post has been edited by malpaso: Mar 23, 2006 - 2:28 AM -------------------- No more replicas... This is evolution... This is SS-four :)
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Apr 9, 2006 - 1:14 AM
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 Enthusiast Joined Mar 22, '06 From Wesley chapel, Florida Currently Offline Reputation: 13 (93%) |
yeah but where do you get red niddles and if you where to paint them what kind of paint do you use
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Apr 9, 2006 - 6:01 PM
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Enthusiast Joined Aug 2, '05 From Guam Currently Offline Reputation: 15 (100%) |
i painted mine using Krylon Fusion. They are made for plastic and they do not need any sanding or prepping. This was ideal cus I did not want to prep it and damage it. So all you need to do is paint even layers of red. The only hard part is masking.
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Apr 9, 2006 - 8:46 PM
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Enthusiast Joined Mar 22, '06 From Wesley chapel, Florida Currently Offline Reputation: 13 (93%) |
so you mask every number on there and then painted them
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Apr 10, 2006 - 2:12 AM
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Enthusiast Joined Feb 3, '06 From Czech Republic (Europe) Currently Offline Reputation: 56 (100%) |
I used red transparent paint (same as everybody use to paint tails or turns).
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Apr 10, 2006 - 3:07 PM
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Enthusiast Joined Mar 22, '06 From Wesley chapel, Florida Currently Offline Reputation: 13 (93%) |
so you painted whole gauge cluster
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Apr 11, 2006 - 2:13 AM
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Enthusiast Joined Feb 3, '06 From Czech Republic (Europe) Currently Offline Reputation: 56 (100%) |
QUOTE(twolownissan2002 @ Apr 10, 2006 - 10:07 PM) [snapback]419826[/snapback] so you painted whole gauge cluster thats right... (for more see your PM...) -------------------- No more replicas... This is evolution... This is SS-four :)
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