Does anyone know about printing your own guages

aftershock · Post by **aftershock** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:21 pm

Ive been looking for some yellow guages to complete my dash,but to no avail,so my next option is to make my own.

Does anyone have any experience in this, i gather that i need to use some sort of electro luminecent paper and a good printer,maybe a laser jet.

Also,where i can get the template for the guages,i could always just scan mine and use my cad package to touch them up.

Has anyone tried to make their own before?????

Post by **vipfto** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 12:31 pm

your on the right track mate
back in CHCH there is a place above fast fit batteries on barbados and litchfield st corners
they can do dash prints i looked into it before getting the KMC dials
A mate of mine got them done on his legacy they looked good but i dont know how they looked at night

so illumnation may be the issue
but they can also put in any letters or any thing you want.....
but if you have the gear to do yourself then just try it as they are so simple to fit and i am guessing you wont need to wire any lights in with them so just give it a go

rock_it · Post by **rock_it** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:14 pm

I saw a guy on ebay that use to do it... He use to get people to put what they wanted in a bmp format and he would make it ...

Had his details but lost em ....

aftershock · Post by **aftershock** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:08 am

Thanks guys,ive managed to find someone to do them for me,should get them next week!!!

rock_it · Post by **rock_it** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:45 am

aftershock wrote:Thanks guys,ive managed to find someone to do them for me,should get them next week!!!

Be sure to let us know how they go ... I would like to get some done up also ...

xSlurpee · Post by **xSlurpee** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:56 pm

Yea, let us know how it gos and some pictures too. Then you can hook us up

aftershock · Post by **aftershock** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:04 pm

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here it is

ft04me · Post by **ft04me** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:33 pm

HEY MATE...

nice and looks great.. just a quick question

what gear know is that and where did u get it from? i've been hunting it for a while now..

how much did the dials cost ya??

Post by **I8A4RE** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:49 pm

Looks F'en sweet man. How much and where?

harry90 · Post by **harry90** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:00 pm

aftershock · Post by **aftershock** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:38 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Mitsubishi-FTO-9 ... m153.l1262

Mel_star_1 · Post by **Mel_star_1** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:51 pm

damn! I'm getting the same steering wheel and gear shift as you

, got em on good old layby yew! I didn't copy just found em off the momo site.

rock_it · Post by **rock_it** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:55 pm

What do they look like at night

aftershock · Post by **aftershock** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:58 pm

rock_it wrote:What do they look like at night

They look ok at night, i had to replace the standarb bulbs with blue ones so that the numbers were visible, otherwise the standard bulbs just highlighted the yellow part,but because the fto hasnt got the best even illumination there are a few darker spots.