Re: Dashlights: change from green to amber? - easy!

[Ilias Glavinas <elias@tesla.wustl.edu>]

On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Shawn C Meze wrote:

> the black background. Looks cool to me! Id like to put in some red bulb
> condoms to make the red numbers and tic marks glow a little more. That
> would be cool me thinks. 

There are bulb covers being sold out there at the extremely reasonable 
price of *gasp* $3 each --which is grand larceny. THE easiest way to 
change the color of a bulb is to use nail polish. Go to Walgreens or 
somewhere similar where you would be likely to find every tacky color 
imaginable (I got a green nail polish for my VDO gauge-bulbs). Then 
simply paint the bulbs with a thick (or thin, depending on how much of 
the color you want to show) layer of the polish, and they will shine 
colorfully for years (I have had mine like this for almost two years and 
the color hasn't faded at all from the bulb heat). This trick was 
mentioned to me by Awesome GTI, a VW place in Manchester, England.


Ilias

ps: Now that I know that the green filter can be taken off neatly and 
without too much hassle, I think I will break it off and opt for 
painting my bulbs something totally outrageous like purple :-)

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