how about changing the bulb to a lower wattage?
I like the bomb indicator. Instead of 'hazard', how about the bomb symbol
and a question mark?
PS
----- Original Message -----
From: Terry L. Thompson <tlt@digex.net>
To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 6:54 PM
Subject: Indicator Lights/Stupid Tip/Anecdote
>
> The other day someone on the list mentioned that they were looking for
> special text for their
> rectangular indicator lights on the dash panel. And someone mentioned you
> can pull them apart
> and put your own transparencies.
>
> I just wanted to add my own stupid tip to this thread (and people that
like
> their indicators as
> original will deride and scoff at this but...)
>
> Everyone that gets in my car (at night) sees the HAZARD light and says "Is
> there something wrong?!
> Your Hazard light is on!" and I have to explain that; it and the Window
> Wiper lights are just indicators.
> They just happen to be this REALLY bright red.
>
> Well, the rest of the dash lights are green (my turn signal light, the
> instrument illumination has
> this great eerie green glow, my new radio back lighting is green, and I
> even bought a lighter with a
> green illumination ring from Krack-auto.) So, to change the lights to
> green, I pulled them apart and
> using a thick 4 mil (?) plastic, I used an indelible marker and colored it
> green. But there were
> two problems; 1) coloring the clear plastic doesn't dim the bulb
> enough...it's STILL really bright
> but with a green tinge to it and 2) the non heat resistant plastic
> burns...and stinks badly when on
> for an extended period of time.
>
> So after hours of looking at those little red pieces of diffusing plastic,
> I went into the kitchen
> for some milk and noticed that the plastic cap on the top of the milk was
a
> nice thick green plastic.
> And big enough to cut a rectangle out of.
>
> Years from now, someone's going to go to replace the bulbs in this car and
> see the words "dairy prod"
> on the back of the diffusing plastic and think "Man...The British were
> seriously into recycling!"
>
> Terry L. Thompson
> '76 Spit 1500 w/green indicator
> Maryland
>
>
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