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I did mine myself. You can get the gauge overlays and special needle paint too (which I didn't do). I don't know how meticulous or authentic you want it done, but all of the rebuilt clusters I've seen have the original cross hatching removed. The cross hatching is not in the metal, it's part of the painting process.
I did mine myself. You can get the gauge overlays and special needle paint too (which I didn't do). I don't know how meticulous or authentic you want it done, but all of the rebuilt clusters I've seen have the original cross hatching removed. The cross hatching is not in the metal, it's part of the painting process.
hey looks Great. All I know the only gauges that work in mine is the gas and battery voltage. I want all of the gauges to work look like it just came from factory in 1949.
I have no idea, really. But I'll speculate that it is a very thick coating that is somehow stamped or rolled on with a pattern.
Wonder if you could duplicate it by laying an expanded metal screen the size of the pattern on the face and laying a heavy coat of paint on. Lift off the screen and you would have a wet pattern left over don't you think? No doubt it was baked on too.
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Wonder if you could duplicate it by laying an expanded metal screen the size of the pattern on the face and laying a heavy coat of paint on. Lift off the screen and you would have a wet pattern left over don't you think? No doubt it was baked on too.
To my knowledge this process, or any other to produce the crosshatching has never been duplicated. And I will speculate that the cluster itself wasn't built by Ford, but another one of hundreds of it's vendors. The process is probably lost to time.
