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Title: anyone know what make gear indicator
Post by: bigalzete on 30 September 2014, 09:56:43 am
Hello can any one tell me what gear indicator this is it was already on my 600 fancy one for my fazer 1000
Title: Re: anyone know what make gear indicator
Post by: noggythenog on 30 September 2014, 10:12:37 am
I dunno....but it took me a while to figure out what i was looking at...im like "eh he's got a load of hair on his dash seemingly behind his LED" :lol


Good luck with the search oh hairy one.
Title: Re: anyone know what make gear indicator
Post by: bigalzete on 30 September 2014, 12:51:26 pm
Haha everyone loves the wild hair :P
Title: Re: anyone know what make gear indicator
Post by: tweetytek on 30 September 2014, 01:18:03 pm
I was reading the blog on which the guy described this, last year. The guy that did it said he had crafted a piece of coloured pespex plastic (slightly tinted) using a carboard template that he shaped around the clocks. He used a soldering iron to cut the perspex to shape according to the paper template, then sanded down the edges. He included to tabs in the template cutout (which you cannot see from your photo) that he warmed up with a heat gun, bent back 90 degrees, and used them to fix the tinted plastic to the clocks housing using silicon sealer (which could easily be revoved if needed - rather some glue type adhesive). Its easy to do.
 
 
Perspex: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Colour-Perspex-Acrylic-Sheet-Plastic-Material-Panel-Cut-to-Size-A5-A4-A3-/201121042564?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&var=&hash=item2ed3bf9084 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Colour-Perspex-Acrylic-Sheet-Plastic-Material-Panel-Cut-to-Size-A5-A4-A3-/201121042564?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&var=&hash=item2ed3bf9084)
 
The indicator itself if from here http://www.acutrac.co.uk/digital-gear-indicators-23-c.asp (http://www.acutrac.co.uk/digital-gear-indicators-23-c.asp) and fixed using adhesive to the back of the template.
 
Any soldering iron will do but here is mine: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dremel-VERSATIP-2000-6-Multifunction-Butane-SOLDERING-IRON-/310421923228?pt=UK_Baby_BabyFeedingUtensils_EH&hash=item484696a59c#ht_3880wt_1110 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dremel-VERSATIP-2000-6-Multifunction-Butane-SOLDERING-IRON-/310421923228?pt=UK_Baby_BabyFeedingUtensils_EH&hash=item484696a59c#ht_3880wt_1110)
 
Just draw a felt marker around the cardboard/paper cutout  laid onto the perspex, heat up the iron, carefully work around the felt line to cut through, sand edges. End of
Title: Re: anyone know what make gear indicator
Post by: bigalzete on 30 September 2014, 11:10:00 pm
Looks like I have a little project to do then thanks for the help :)
Title: Re: anyone know what make gear indicator
Post by: tweetytek on 01 October 2014, 06:47:35 am
For a neater cut use a dremel with a cutting bit, less sanding too
Title: Re: anyone know what make gear indicator
Post by: Arbie on 01 October 2014, 11:55:19 am
Wish I had hair !!! :'(