Miller No832 & No75.V. ammeter use on Vincents

craig

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Hi Martyn, Yes, I purchased 8BA brass screws off EbayUK, printed new face on paper on my laser printer. cut it out, laid over old face, put glass in, snapped on bezel.
Looks like I need to line it up better, but fairly easy work.
I think the overlay needs to be unattached to old face to allow for thermal expansion.
I think the 8BA were 7/16 or 1/2..........too long..........cut off with Dremel........just screwed directly into existing holes where old black screws came out.
Putting the revised gage directly on the scanner makes this photo look a little smashed......optical problem with scanners.
I might shortened the needle by bending the lower sections.
I also have old original Miller ammeters that have failed graphics. I will be fitting them with new graphics as well.
seems if you have a repro meter you should swap out the Philips head screws for cheeseheads. Martyn
NewLaserFaceForReproMiller.jpg
 

craig

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here is what I made and cut outMetalFacePatternWithCutout.jpg

I need a good scan or photo of a lighthouse ammeter please, to do same pattern............I will publish for all to revise modern reproduction gages
 
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TouringGodet

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Someone in the So Cal section, many years ago, had some artwork done up for the No 75 ammeter face. I've got one or two sheets around somewhere with, I think, 6 images per sheet. The background of the whole sheet is black, so I think the white lettering is the printed portion, not the black, actually, on second thought, the whole sheet of paper was photographic, and a mask was used to not expose the white portion. I have a busted ammeter, and I took the whole original face plate and swapped it over to a repro ammeter, so I haven't actually tried to use one of those old sheets. I think the sheets were made with a photographic process, not printed.

I did a similar faceplate trick years ago on a Volkswagen bug. The fuel gauge failed, and the replacement one had different graphics, so I swapped the faceplates.
 

craig

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Posted my current pattern at thevincent.com ....under Comet details
Not perfect, but okay.
http://thevincent.com/CometMiller.html
Thanks Steve, please get us more detail, or send me a 600 dpi scan of one of the face plates.
More info on whether the graphic is still available.
Cheers
Craig
 

Simon Dinsdale

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Craig

I have posted on the photo section the graphics for the Miller 832 face which I used on my Series A. See:

miller4.jpg

http://www.vincentownersclub.co.uk/...oto/9868/title/miller-no-832-lighthou/cat/906

I got an online photo print company called Photobox to print some and they have not faded. The outside of the yellow background is 6" x 4" so if you get it printed as a 6 x 4 print which is a common size in the UK the actual face is exactly the right size.

The face came from a photograph I took of an original on my brothers series B Rapide, which I cleaned up on the computer and scaled to the correct size for printing. I have also used the same method to create the face for the Smiths 8 day clock used on Series A's.

If you send me your email in a private message through the forum I will send you the full size file for the Miller No.832 in return for the No.75 which I could do with.

Cheers
Simon.
 

TouringGodet

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Oops, sorry gents, it isn't the ammeter face, it is artwork for the VOC badge that I have some copies of. I have seen artwork for the ammeter, though, I will ask Bill Easter.
 

mike howard

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A few years ago there was a white plastic card available with all the various Miller ameter faces printed on it including the lighthouse. I seem to remember the last time I saw them for sale was at the IOM International 1999 .No Idea who supplied them. Perhaps someone on this forum could remember.
Cheers.
 

vibrac

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Was it also in "the vintage workshop" book or perhaps they were just pre war speedo faces
 

Rob H

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A few years ago there was a white plastic card available with all the various Miller ameter faces printed on it including the lighthouse. I seem to remember the last time I saw them for sale was at the IOM International 1999 .No Idea who supplied them. Perhaps someone on this forum could remember.
Cheers.


I have seen these come up on ebay from time to time
 
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