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From: munchausen on 26 Sep 2007 18:06 Looked at a 2nd hand bike. appears 2 have been left in the sun every day. The faces of the gauges are all milky. anyone had any experience with this ? Are they stuffed or can they be fixed/improved ? M.
From: Boxer on 26 Sep 2007 18:31 "munchausen" <baron_munchausen(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message news:13flm0gm4cu58d4(a)corp.supernews.com... > Looked at a 2nd hand bike. appears 2 have been left in the sun > every day. The faces of the gauges are all milky. > anyone had any experience with this ? Are they stuffed or can they > be fixed/improved ? > M. http://www.ottoinstruments.com.au/index.htm Boxer
From: JL on 26 Sep 2007 20:03 On Sep 27, 8:31 am, "Boxer" <some...(a)nowhere.com> wrote: > "munchausen" <baron_munchau...(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message > > news:13flm0gm4cu58d4(a)corp.supernews.com... > > > Looked at a 2nd hand bike. appears 2 have been left in the sun > > every day. The faces of the gauges are all milky. > > anyone had any experience with this ? Are they stuffed or can they > > be fixed/improved ? > > M. > > http://www.ottoinstruments.com.au/index.htm Yeah what 'e said - any decent instrument repairer can re-glass them, if you're in Sydney rather than Brizvegas I can give you the name of a guy who did good work for me on some Jag instruments a few years ago (assuming he's still there was a good 6or 7 years) JL
From: munchausen on 27 Sep 2007 03:07 JL wrote: > On Sep 27, 8:31 am, "Boxer" <some...(a)nowhere.com> wrote: >> "munchausen" <baron_munchau...(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message >> >> news:13flm0gm4cu58d4(a)corp.supernews.com... >> >>> Looked at a 2nd hand bike. appears 2 have been left in the sun >>> every day. The faces of the gauges are all milky. >>> anyone had any experience with this ? Are they stuffed or can they >>> be fixed/improved ? >>> M. >> http://www.ottoinstruments.com.au/index.htm > > Yeah what 'e said - any decent instrument repairer can re-glass them, > if you're in Sydney rather than Brizvegas I can give you the name of a > guy who did good work for me on some Jag instruments a few years ago > (assuming he's still there was a good 6or 7 years) > > JL > Regrettably i'm in the deep North :-( M.
From: George W. Frost on 27 Sep 2007 03:15
"munchausen" <baron_munchausen(a)internode.on.net> wrote in message news:13flm0gm4cu58d4(a)corp.supernews.com... > Looked at a 2nd hand bike. appears 2 have been left in the sun > every day. The faces of the gauges are all milky. > anyone had any experience with this ? Are they stuffed or can they > be fixed/improved ? > M. I had gauges on one of my bikes which were almost white through no garage or house door wide enough to have it under cover. Didn't appear to affect the performance of the gauges |