I've finally gotten the El-Glo electroluminscent instrument cluster from Ryan Gould (http://www.deloreanautomotive.com/) installed, and I took a bunch of photos, several of which almost look decent. I opted for the Eurostyle font, reverse El-Glo (i.e. dark background, lit lettering), White "Cobalt blue" font (which glows a nice, deep blue similar to the newer VW instrument clusters). Note that this isn't the same color as the normal white color, which glows a much lighter blue. We originally had a mixup over this, and Ryan was very helpful about getting things sorted out. I can't say enough good things about him. While Ryan's kits include red 194 bulbs to replace the regular instrument cluster bulbs, I really want lit needles, so my plan was to replace the instrument cluster bulbs with UV LEDs and to paint the needles on the gauges with a UV-reactive paint. I tried this out, and found that the UV LEDs, from the distance and orientation they're in in relation to the gauge faces, didn't cause the needles to fluoresce one bit, so I've shelved this idea at least temporarily. I may try a cold cathode tube later, which will produce a lot more UV, or I may even try butchering the cluster from a car with real lit needles and kludging them into the DMC cluster somehow. I haven't given up yet! Anyway, I took a bunch of pictures of the failed UV painting procedure and the finished product (alas, with Ryan's provided red bulbs), and it really looks great. The pictures are up at: http://artifact.psychedelic.net/~aos/photos/?album=dmc-ElGlo The finished product looks better than I expected, and I'm really pleased. I'm going to keep working on real lit needles, but I know I won't be disappointed with this in the meantime. If any of you are on the fence about doing this project, I really recommend it. It's given my car a whole new look at night. -andrew #4115 Houston TX Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT <http://rd.yahoo.com/M=194081.4074964.5287182.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=170512 6215:HM/A=1706996/R=0/SIG=11p5b9ris/*http://www.ediets.com/start.cfm?code= 30509&media=atkins> click here <http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=194081.4074964.5287182.1261774/D=egroupm ail/S=:HM/A=1706996/rand=172073323> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
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