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Anybody refurbish their own gauges?

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Lonnie

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The cost of sending the gauges to one of the professionals is a bit out of my budget to have them looked at and cleaned if need be. The gauges look fine, and I don't know if there were/are any problems with them. How hard is it to take them to bits and clean them up?

Lonnie
 
I also tinker with gauges routinely. Calibrating them is hard, cleaning faces and free-ing mechanical tachs and speedos takes a bit more work. The best source for info I've found on this is to google for the 27 page PDF by Anthony Rhodes on repairing Smiths & Jaeger Speedometers. There is much useful information in there.
 
i've done some minor rebuilding and repair myself but have found that unless you have a tremendous amount of patience and a steady hand, you've got to be very careful. Otherwise you do more damage than good. definitely read the about links before attempting
 
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