[Fot] Modern internals in Smith gauges

[Duncan Charlton]

A friend silkscreened the face of his voltage meter with the Lucas lion 
logo along with a quote attributed to Joseph Lucas, "A gentleman does 
not go motoring about after dark."

Duncan


On 8/18/14, 12:04 PM, toodamnfunky at comcast.net wrote:
> Mike,
> Great suggestion, I was wondering what I was going to do about the 
> gauge face.
> Thanks,
> jim g
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From: *"Michael Moore" <mmoore at mtmcpafirm.com>
> *To: *"Charlton, Duncan" <duncan.charlton54 at gmail.com>, "fot" 
> <fot at autox.team.net>
> *Sent: *Monday, August 18, 2014 10:53:47 AM
> *Subject: *Re: [Fot] Modern internals in Smith gauges
>
> I had my tach converted to electronic by Morris Mince at West Valley
> Instruments, did a really nice job, and even updated and checked it 
> for free
> last month.
>
> I also went one step further, on his suggestion, and had face 
> re-silkscreened
> to go to 8k (and redline mark is now at 6k-7k). Looks exactly like 
> original
> gauge unless you study it closely. I run at 5500 rpm but it nice to 
> not have
> needle always close to high end of tach.
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>
> Michael T. Moore, CPA
> 2007 West 32nd Street
> Erie, PA 16508
>
> Phone: 814-868-4831  ext 103
> Fax:        814-864-7383
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fot [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Duncan Charlton
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 7:48 PM
> To: fot at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Fot] Modern internals in Smith gauges
>
> You might also check with Nisonger in NY.  They repaired a damaged 
> tach for me
> that had already been modified by a previous owner.
>
> Duncan
>
> On 8/14/14, 2:51 PM, toodamnfunky at comcast.net wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a source to get modern internals in a Smiths tach.
> > I'm trying to get all my instruments back to original in appearance.B
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