Interesting Instrument Panel

[aviationfred]

This is an interesting instrument panel. Looks like the speedo is in Kilometers.



Fred

[Alf]

Very nice!. How is done?

[aviationfred]

Very nice!. How is done?

I found this for sale on Ebay Germany. It is 298.00 Euro's. I think it looks great, but at a steep price

Fred

[Alf]

Near I buy a complete running FJ for that price!!!! 

[ribbert]

This is an interesting instrument panel. Looks like the speedo is in Kilometers.



Fred

I do a lot of work on old (vintage) cars and there are places that do instrument faces so well you can't pick it from the original. They use a photographic process but it doesn't look like it and is much sharper than you would imagine. I've had several redone and recently had a Jag speedo turned into a Lagonda one. They can recreate originals or customize. Anything you can create on the computer they can put on an instrument face. I think it was about $50 per dial.

Hmmmm, a green arc before the redline on the tacho with "kookaloo" on it,  a discreet "Ribbert Special",  different colour scheme, built by...............

Noel

[andyb]

Photographic processes are used to make things like CPU's in your computer, with 32nm-sized components.  They can get quite sharp lines!

Looks really good to me, though I'm not sure it'd work so well in reality (glare etc). 

It's the same process that is used at times to make the face for a (analog) watch. 

[musicman]

I like the silver color, and also like the idea of putting kookaloo! on the tach, haha

[racerman_27410]

..... and also like the idea of putting kookaloo! on the tach, haha

fer sure!   LMAO!


KOokaloo!

[Charlie-brm]

If I was still in the business of making trophies I might try that with "dye sublimation". Basically a laser printer with special toner prints whatever you come up with on the computer in mirror image then it is heat transferred to the coated metal under a T-shirt press. Printing the faces on coated aluminum would be the easy part. Cutting in the openings for the odometer, etc. would be the not so subtle part. I think one would need punches or EDM to get those cuts sharp and undistorted. It does not give as sharp an edge definition as photo methods but the beauty is that one-off's are easy-peasy with no intermediate patterns, negative film or chemical processing.

[flips]

They look like very expensive stickers to me...look like they didn't stick to well in some area's.

Similar item for mg cluster on ebay...

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/MG-TC-YT-EARLY-TD-INSTRUMENT-DECAL-SET-/130822905269?pt=AU_Car_Parts_Accessories&hash=item1e75a71db5

Cheers

Jeff P

[ribbert]

They look like very expensive stickers to me...look like they didn't stick to well in some area's.

Similar item for mg cluster on ebay...

Cheers

Jeff P

A bit like some of the cheaper non RPM FJ parts out there.

I have a "new" speedo instrument face and the original tacho face from an 80 yo car in front of me now. Even before they are mounted behind glass it is difficult to pick one from the other. At a certain angle in the light you can see numbers on the new one are not raised, but you would NEVER pick it once it's mounted.
It can be done well.

Noel