47heaven Posted January 29, 2007 Report Posted January 29, 2007 Have a question about the brightness of the dash lights. I have a 12 volt change over. My cluster gauges light up pretty decent, except the speedometer gauge seems dimmer than the rest...kind of a dim green. I put a new 12v light in the radio and now it seems overpowering than the other lights. All the light bulbs are the 12v equivalent to the original 6 volt bulbs that were there. Clock is not in yet, so don't know how bright that will be, yet. Were all the dash lights supposed to be the same brightness or were the clock and radio always brighter? Quote
DonaldSmith Posted January 29, 2007 Report Posted January 29, 2007 ... the faster you go. Green, yellow, then red. It gets brighter, too. I'll let the speedometer experts chime in. Quote
bob westphal Posted January 29, 2007 Report Posted January 29, 2007 My speedo is the same brightness as the rest of the gauges but as speed increases the color goes from green to red. It could be that the thing that changes the color could be dirty thus making the speedo light a little dimmer. Quote
David Maxwell Posted January 29, 2007 Report Posted January 29, 2007 ...I removed the prism and reflecting plate. I repainted the reflecting plate with a highly reflective white paint. I thouroughly cleaned the prism which was very dirty and I replaced all light bulbs. I also re-tinted the green and red on the speedometer needle's acrylic shaft. Quote
47heaven Posted January 30, 2007 Author Report Posted January 30, 2007 ...I removed the prism and reflecting plate. I repainted the reflecting plate with a highly reflective white paint. I thouroughly cleaned the prism which was very dirty and I replaced all light bulbs. I also re-tinted the green and red on the speedometer needle's acrylic shaft. David...I recently won a NOS (still in the box) speedometer gauge on Ebay, so the colors are still vivid on the prisim. I haven't tested this one yet, but the one I have on my car presently was cleaned when I took the dash out to have painted. I'm assuming the light source is the two bulbs that go in from the back of the gauge. Is that corerect? I mean, I can see any other holes where lights would go. I did notice that the reflector plate on the NOS one is still bright white and I recall that the paint on the plate for the gauge in my car was flaking off, and I didn't repaint it when I put it all back together. So that could be my problem with the dim speedometer gauge. How about your radio and clock? Are they brighter than the gauges? Quote
David Maxwell Posted January 30, 2007 Report Posted January 30, 2007 ...including pics of the original tinting on the spindle. If possible, could you email some pics to me and maybe post some here for the rest of the group? David Quote
47heaven Posted January 30, 2007 Author Report Posted January 30, 2007 ...including pics of the original tinting on the spindle. If possible, could you email some pics to me and maybe post some here for the rest of the group?David I'll see what I can do. The problem is my camera doesn't take sharp, close-up pictures anymore for some reason. You want to see how the spindle is colored, right? Quote
John Mulders Posted January 31, 2007 Report Posted January 31, 2007 I can make picture of the speedometer if needed. Still habe the unit out and can easily do that. I was looking for the page where David had this recoloring work shown but haven't found it on the web yet. Will try to explain what seems the case with mine when I post these pics. Probably Thursday, tomorrow is a bit busy! John Quote
David Maxwell Posted January 31, 2007 Report Posted January 31, 2007 but what I'm hoping to see is a NOS one for comparison. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v455/bojeta/47%20Plymouth%20Restoration/?action=view¤t=12a3.jpg Quote
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