Originally posted by m4gician:
For the Sandpaper, what grit sand paper do we use to sand down the numbers? Also, which BULBS (i.e. from superbrightleds.com) are the BEST ones that work in there?
I'm going to ASSume that it's some real fine paper so you don't end up sanding off the opaque paint.
WATCH IT WHEN YOU PULL THE FACE OFF THE SPEEDO!!! When I did the ol S&H gauges, some of the opaque black paint stayed on the clear plastic part of the speedometer, which sucked pretty bad (white light shined thru) since I had to put the factory faces back on since the S&H ones sucked. Because of this, I now have a set of gauges sitting in storage that I might just try this on.
Now the lights? I would personally get the widest angle LEDs you can. If you put the ones that shine with a narrow angle, you'll have the "flashlight" effect on the guages.
I went with the white 6 led ones. They make the gauges have semi-patchy light, but are WAY brighter.
I also bought some 360�° white LEDs. They are blue LEDs with the phosphor that is in normal white LEDs (to change the blue to white) on the entire outside of the LED, which makes them light up 360�°.
Ok, well, I had a picture of the 360�° LEDs... oh well.
Last edited by Big Daddy Kane; 07/12/06 05:02 PM.
