I just spent all day farting around with my fuel gauge. The original face
had cracked and you couldn't read it very well. I made a template of where
every mark was supposed to be, bought some flat black paint, and painted
the faces black. I then bought some white ruboff letters from the hobby
store and put all the slashes, the E and the F, etc. Everthing but the part
# and the smith's.
1 new gauge!
flame away,
signed,
BARRY PALMER
amesfolks@snovalley.com
72 MG Midget (Sparky)
http://members.xoom.com/mgboy
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> From: KILE, PAUL D <Paul.Kile@Aerojet.com>
> To: 'mgs@autox.team.net'
> Subject: Gauge Help Please
> Date: Thursday, February 12, 1998 2:46 PM
>
> Earlier today, Ed Kaler said:
>
> " By the time you spend 20 hours farting around with said instrument
> you could
> have sent it to MoMa and had it back, installed in car, drivrn a couple
> hundred miles, and fixed something else!!!!!!! Why do we (sic) keep
> trying to
> reimvent the wheel???"
>
> Now I usually see totally eye to eye with Ed over such things as
> Pozidriv tools, wiring harnesses, and such. But this time I think he
> might be forgetting that some people derive great pleasure in fiddling
> with their cars. Enrique (the original poster) may want to try to fix
> the gauge himself.
>
> I had a roommate who had a 1967 or so Sprite that was held together with
> spit and bailing wire. One time he showed up at the Palo Alto meet with
> a generator bracket that he had produced in his own forge. It looked
> like something out of the Middle Ages, but it WORKED! And he was very
> proud of it.
>
> "Sometimes we took pride in just GETTING there..." - Jimmy Stewart to
> Richard Attenborough in "The Flight of the Phoenix"
>
> Cheers, Paul Kile
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