painting gauge needles

[bigdan]

doing the rally pack conversion.....
the gauge needles are white,

anyone ever painted the needles orange ?

 

[pontiacgp]

I did on a tach and it worked fine. Jut pull the needle off, clean it and paint it.

 

[Bonnewagon]

I read that the weight of paint will throw off the gauge reading. It said to use magic marker instead, that's what I used on the tach you gave me, Steve.

 

[pontiacgp]

you just answered something for me...a friend of mine painted all this needles with nail polish cause he liked weird colors and he said his gauges were screwed up after that, now I know why. Mine didn't seem the be affected by the paint tho so I guess I got lucky, great point to use the markers

 

[bigdan]

imagine ,I wanted to buy some brushable paint ....

never tought of that !

thanks for the input !

Dan ,