1966 Plymouth Fury 3

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Re: 1966 Plymouth Fury 3

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It's all those neat little jobs that never get done on anything that's a runner......
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mercrocker wrote: Sat Jul 30, 2022 10:12 am It's all those neat little jobs that never get done on anything that's a runner......
Not a runner that you depend upon at least.

There an element of truth there though. I haven't even washed the daily in months.
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You can get Chrome effect paint here, I've never used it but it might be worth a try?
It's these little jobs you do that make the cars look special
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DodgeRover wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 2:19 pm You can get Chrome effect paint here, I've never used it but it might be worth a try?
It's these little jobs you do that make the cars look special
I found a can of the mirroriest stuff I could. It's not bad.
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Grabbed the spare speedometer from the shed, unfortunately it was submerged for s few weeks in rainwater.
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A little worse for wear; the mechanism is rusted solid and the dial isn't too special either. Still, decided to clean it up as practice.
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Came up looking ok. The lens is crazed and the surround cracked.
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Still, with the pcb cleaned up all the lights work. The silver is a little too shiny on the inside edge of the bezel. I'll wait for the silver to harden fully and then paint it pale gray, echoing the original chrome/matte silver finish it had.
I like the way it looks though. Certainly the largest speedometer I've owned.
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Bought a cheap red lens at Napa ($1.79, has reflective patterns and stuff in so what's not to like)
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Cut the shape out and stuck it in place, sealed the gaps with silicone and covered that with red lacquer.
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Perfect? Far from it. Now all red lights with no holes in? Yes.

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Re: 1966 Plymouth Fury 3

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That's a great, cheap fix for about the same price as a big bag of crisps? Now you've gone to that trouble one will come up for sale next week.
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I didn't expect flex PCBs in something this old. Must have been really cutting edge at the time.
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I'm not sure about flexis but PCBs were making an appearance in WW2 aircraft, I think a British patent was taken out around the time. Some of them were on impregnated resin boards that could be pressed into the required shapes.
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Looking at it again, it doesn't look like a flex PCB as too thick.
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SiC wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 11:08 am I didn't expect flex PCBs in something this old. Must have been really cutting edge at the time.
I don't know when flexible PCB made it to the scene, probably mid seventies.
This is hand drawn, resin board PCB, like you find in old radios. They started to appear in consumer stuff by the late fifties.
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