New Chrome Dials

[jjferreira]

Afternoon all, I'm having a new Walnut  dashboard done for my spitfire, and I wanted to buy a whole new set of Chrome Dials, can any one suggest where I can buy them, or can i just buy the chrome rims  for them.

Also when replacing the dials most of them seems to be easy, my concern is with the Gas one, is it easy to do that one?

Cheers

p.s. the missues is not happy about the amount of dash I'm spending on this hobby :)

[DaveKent]

your dials should have a chrome bezel anyway.  use a wooden scraper or a plastic one to scrape the black paint off to reveal the chrome. do not use anything metal, or paint stripper etc as the chrome damages easiy and the dial glass is often plastic!

[Velocita Rosso]

Better off using a chrome cleaner paste, rub like hell and the black comes of and reveals well protected chrome

[DaveKent]

that is true, but i find it damages the plastic of the "glass". it is the way to do it if you've got glass "glass" !

[Gt6s]

Celulose thinners takes the black off very easily and cleans the glass.

[Velocita Rosso]

However the chrome bezel has tabs on the back and you twist the bezel to the `outlets` and the bezel comes off

[DaveKent]

if the rubber hasn't perished and gone all gooey!!

[CharlieB]

1655 wrote:

...or can i just buy the chrome rims  for them.

Yes, eg:
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=smiths+bezel&_sacat=See-All-Categories

[jjferreira]

Brilliant exactly what i was looking for.  Replacing the dashboard, is there any specific issues i should look out for.
Cheers

[rotoflex]

CharlieB wrote:

Yes, eg:
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=smiths+bezel&_sacat=See-All-Categories

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