Post by lynn on Sept 18, 2007 10:40:21 GMT -5
Here's some guidelines if anyone wants to make one of these clocks:
What you need:
CJ speedometer
Sawsall or good hacksaw
Files or dremmel with grinding stones
Tin snips
Hot glue gun
Clockworks. Get at Michaels/Ben Franklin/AC Moore/any craft store. Get one for ¼” thick dial
Flourescent orange spray paint
Drill, 5/16 drill bit, 1/8” drill bit
Screwdriver
Red construction paper
¼” thick piece of rubber, (or wood, etc) about 1x1” or so
5 or 6 flat toothpics
How to do:
Pry up edges of bezel, lift bezel/glass retainer off of unit. Clean glass, sand and paint bezel and retainer desired color (assuming chrome is shot)
From the back, unscrew the nuts that hold the guts in place (odometer and gauges). Remove guts.
Pry off needle, careful to not scratch the face.
From the back, carefully drill the two rivets that hold the odometer in place with the 1/8 bit, do not drill through the face. Save the fronts of the rivets.
Remove the entire odometer assembly, cardboard tubes, etc
Note that all of this has to be removed so that the hands can clear the glass when all is assembled. Essentially the face will be moved well back into the case from the original location.
Take off the frame and device that prevents you from moving the numbers. Once it’s free, take the odometer wheels to a copy machine, set them to whatever combination you want, and make a copy of the numbers.
Drill out the center hole of the face to 5/16”
Clean the face carefully.
Put the odometer rivet front pieces back on the face, hot glue them in place from the back.
Glue the odometer numbers copy to a piece of card stock. Cut it out, hold it behind the face until lined up, hot glue it in place. On single digit speedos, remove the old cellophane from the oil/amp/hi beam idiot lights, glue in some small pieces of red construction paper. (On later speedometers, you may elect to allow the multi-colored cellophane to remain in place, or you could remove it entirely and use appropriate pieces of construction paper (green, blue, yellow, red) to cover the holes. I imagine the plastic turn signal indicators could be removed and replaced with green construction paper...)
Remove the faces from the temp and fuel gage canisters, carefully clean them. If they are too bad, you can copy them on a copier, touch up the copies, then glue the copies over the original.
Paint the toothpicks and the clock hands with fluorescent orange paint. 2 coats, both sides.
Drill a ¼” hole in the center of the 1x1"x ¼” rubber, so it fits tightly over the clock stem. Hot glue it in place as a spacer between the works and the stem. Should be just enough stem to stick through the face and put the nut on to tighten.
Using a sawsall or hacksaw, cut the hump off of the back of the speedometer case.
NOTE { Depending on the speedo case, the clockworks case, and the depth you set the face (see later discussion about the cardboard tubes) you may need to grind out/enlarge the opening in the back of the speedo case to allow the clockworks to stick partially through the back. (I used both a dremmel, and a "butterfly" air die grinder with a pencil stone. The depth you eventually set the face, and how much the clockworks stick out the back, all depends on the clearance you need for the hands between the face and the glass. This appears to vary with the type of speedometer used. }
Put the clock works behind the face and push stem through the center hole in the face. Tighten with nut provided in clockworks. Slip face into the case. Push it back until it bottoms on the two metal brackets that are inside the case. Note where the clockworks may need to fit through the hole. Cut with tinsnips (or grinder, see above) to allow the clock body to fully extend beyond the case. File or dremmel all rough edges, then paint entire case inside and out.
Take the temp gage face, align it behind the appropriate hole. Hot glue the back of the gage face to the back of the clock face in one spot. Cut a painted toothpick. From the front, slip it inbetween the gage face and the clock face, pointing at normal operating temp. Carefully turn unit over, hot glue the other side of the gage face back into place. Put extra glue into the triangle holes on the gage face, that will hold the toothpick in place.
Repeat for fuel gage.
(Note I suggested painting 5 or 6 toothpicks because the ends are often different shape, and not obvious until after painting. Select two that match the best after painting)
Holding the case in hand, slip the face/clockworks into the case, allowing it to rest on the two brackets (if present, otherwise on some of the half-height tubes), and making sure to have the extended portion of the gage faces aligned with the indentations in the case. Take one of the cardboard tubes, cut it about in half, so that it supports the bottom when placed between the clock face and the back of the case. Once it is cut to the required thickness, hot glue it inside the case, putting glue inside and out of the tube. This should be about bottom center inside the case, and essentially supporting behind the two gage faces. The two metal brackets support the rest of the unit. ***
Be sure all is centered and level, then carefully turn the unit over, keeping it centered, and apply hot glue through the holes where you can access the metal brackets. The hot glue should make good contact with the back of the face and surround/encompass the brackets. When this cools, do the same for the cardboard tube support. Finally, apply hot glue around the clock body where it sticks out of the back of the case. The works and face should now be firm in the case.
After this, apply the painted clock hands to the clock stem per the package directions.
*** Only the early CJ speedos with the single digits have these brackets. Later speedos (0 - 90, and 5 - 85 ) don't have the brackets. In these cases, cut two or more of the cardboard tubes in half, and hot glue them over holes, essentially one in each quadrant to get the face to sit evenly.
Install painted retainer/glass/bezel, crimp edges. Put some painted screws in the corners.
I think that about covers it....
What time is it??
Early CJ5 Time!!!
What you need:
CJ speedometer
Sawsall or good hacksaw
Files or dremmel with grinding stones
Tin snips
Hot glue gun
Clockworks. Get at Michaels/Ben Franklin/AC Moore/any craft store. Get one for ¼” thick dial
Flourescent orange spray paint
Drill, 5/16 drill bit, 1/8” drill bit
Screwdriver
Red construction paper
¼” thick piece of rubber, (or wood, etc) about 1x1” or so
5 or 6 flat toothpics
How to do:
Pry up edges of bezel, lift bezel/glass retainer off of unit. Clean glass, sand and paint bezel and retainer desired color (assuming chrome is shot)
From the back, unscrew the nuts that hold the guts in place (odometer and gauges). Remove guts.
Pry off needle, careful to not scratch the face.
From the back, carefully drill the two rivets that hold the odometer in place with the 1/8 bit, do not drill through the face. Save the fronts of the rivets.
Remove the entire odometer assembly, cardboard tubes, etc
Note that all of this has to be removed so that the hands can clear the glass when all is assembled. Essentially the face will be moved well back into the case from the original location.
Take off the frame and device that prevents you from moving the numbers. Once it’s free, take the odometer wheels to a copy machine, set them to whatever combination you want, and make a copy of the numbers.
Drill out the center hole of the face to 5/16”
Clean the face carefully.
Put the odometer rivet front pieces back on the face, hot glue them in place from the back.
Glue the odometer numbers copy to a piece of card stock. Cut it out, hold it behind the face until lined up, hot glue it in place. On single digit speedos, remove the old cellophane from the oil/amp/hi beam idiot lights, glue in some small pieces of red construction paper. (On later speedometers, you may elect to allow the multi-colored cellophane to remain in place, or you could remove it entirely and use appropriate pieces of construction paper (green, blue, yellow, red) to cover the holes. I imagine the plastic turn signal indicators could be removed and replaced with green construction paper...)
Remove the faces from the temp and fuel gage canisters, carefully clean them. If they are too bad, you can copy them on a copier, touch up the copies, then glue the copies over the original.
Paint the toothpicks and the clock hands with fluorescent orange paint. 2 coats, both sides.
Drill a ¼” hole in the center of the 1x1"x ¼” rubber, so it fits tightly over the clock stem. Hot glue it in place as a spacer between the works and the stem. Should be just enough stem to stick through the face and put the nut on to tighten.
Using a sawsall or hacksaw, cut the hump off of the back of the speedometer case.
NOTE { Depending on the speedo case, the clockworks case, and the depth you set the face (see later discussion about the cardboard tubes) you may need to grind out/enlarge the opening in the back of the speedo case to allow the clockworks to stick partially through the back. (I used both a dremmel, and a "butterfly" air die grinder with a pencil stone. The depth you eventually set the face, and how much the clockworks stick out the back, all depends on the clearance you need for the hands between the face and the glass. This appears to vary with the type of speedometer used. }
Put the clock works behind the face and push stem through the center hole in the face. Tighten with nut provided in clockworks. Slip face into the case. Push it back until it bottoms on the two metal brackets that are inside the case. Note where the clockworks may need to fit through the hole. Cut with tinsnips (or grinder, see above) to allow the clock body to fully extend beyond the case. File or dremmel all rough edges, then paint entire case inside and out.
Take the temp gage face, align it behind the appropriate hole. Hot glue the back of the gage face to the back of the clock face in one spot. Cut a painted toothpick. From the front, slip it inbetween the gage face and the clock face, pointing at normal operating temp. Carefully turn unit over, hot glue the other side of the gage face back into place. Put extra glue into the triangle holes on the gage face, that will hold the toothpick in place.
Repeat for fuel gage.
(Note I suggested painting 5 or 6 toothpicks because the ends are often different shape, and not obvious until after painting. Select two that match the best after painting)
Holding the case in hand, slip the face/clockworks into the case, allowing it to rest on the two brackets (if present, otherwise on some of the half-height tubes), and making sure to have the extended portion of the gage faces aligned with the indentations in the case. Take one of the cardboard tubes, cut it about in half, so that it supports the bottom when placed between the clock face and the back of the case. Once it is cut to the required thickness, hot glue it inside the case, putting glue inside and out of the tube. This should be about bottom center inside the case, and essentially supporting behind the two gage faces. The two metal brackets support the rest of the unit. ***
Be sure all is centered and level, then carefully turn the unit over, keeping it centered, and apply hot glue through the holes where you can access the metal brackets. The hot glue should make good contact with the back of the face and surround/encompass the brackets. When this cools, do the same for the cardboard tube support. Finally, apply hot glue around the clock body where it sticks out of the back of the case. The works and face should now be firm in the case.
After this, apply the painted clock hands to the clock stem per the package directions.
*** Only the early CJ speedos with the single digits have these brackets. Later speedos (0 - 90, and 5 - 85 ) don't have the brackets. In these cases, cut two or more of the cardboard tubes in half, and hot glue them over holes, essentially one in each quadrant to get the face to sit evenly.
Install painted retainer/glass/bezel, crimp edges. Put some painted screws in the corners.
I think that about covers it....
What time is it??
Early CJ5 Time!!!