Help restoring gauges! removing needles?

[Chuck78]

Checking with my professional screenprinter friend on how difficult this image would be to print on these small aluminum faces. I'm hoping this will produce excellent results, as uncrimping the bezel again to redo a peeling or fading decal would be a real bummer, and may not go so well the second time around.

[Agemax]

mate, check out this very old thread. Rudy is the guy that used to make gauge faces for site members. may just give you some ideas or hints on how to go ahead with yours.

http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showthread.php?t=130920&highlight=gauge+faces

[Chuck78]

Thanks for the link, I have read most of the pertinent threads on gauge faces in the top search results. Rudy's were laser etched translucent plastic faces with the design etched into the reverse. I wouldn't know where to go for that type of technology, and I would like to stick with the original manufacture stylings to keep it vintage looking for a classic mid 1970's vintage bike look.

EDIT: new update of images above, got the "OIL" lettering edited from scavenging other letters and numbers from the face and resizing and manipulating them!
Next is order LED lens and LED, and verify that I can fit the OIL lamp in below the trip odometer, and touch up the faces. Getting ready to send my rim off for redrilling to my GS front hub's proper spoke angle, and maybe custom modifying some Ninja twinpot aliper brackets so they will be a direct fit on our GS forks with no bracket needed! Lots of fab work but fun project. Machinist buddy is making me some rotor adapters out of aluminum. Getting ready to order carb parts. The gauges are something to kill time in between house remodeling and mechanical projects on the GS750.
__________________

[Gumbo76]

I like how the faces look, but how are you going to calibrate them? It looks as though your 60 & 70 MPH spots are right where the 50 & 60 MPH's were on the original... I'd assume you'd need to re-calibrate, right?

[Chuck78]

Simply just reinstall the needle at a lower position, it's not splined or anything, just a press-on fit