Stots Build Thread

[Stot]

Add holes for the screws and locators


Cut out the odometer window with a craft knife.


Draw round the inside of the window with a black sharpie to hide the white edge.

[Stot]

Don't forget to cut the middles out like I did.


This is how I popped off the old dial hands. levering against my fingers not the back of the dial.


As I changed where the 0 position was, I needed to remove the three tell tale lights so the whole tacho dial would illuminate.

[Stot]

Put the dial hands back on.


Daylight


Night time


Came out nice I thought.

Cheers
Stot

[skov]

Them's the dogs danglies!

[Johno]

Very nice work indeed Mr Stot...
All I can say is you are a very clever chappy

[Stot]

Im changing the numbers on my dial design based on the Smiths Mini Classic dials. I also wasnt overly happy with the amount of light bleeding through the background on the dials when illuminated so I have added an extra 'mask' layer to these ones that is silver foiled to block the light.





Cant wait to see how these ones turn out.

[Stot]

I also had a go at making a new insert for the warning lights in the cluster because they would be upside down otherwise. Same process but omitting the paper layer.

The parts,


Layered up,


Light from behind.


I havent stuck these together yet but its looking promising.

Cheers
Stot