Transfer Silver Dot to a gauge Options

[Literati914]

Can you transfer a silver dot from a stock 914 gauge to a reasonably early 911 combo gauge w/o the dot? If so, can someone give the basic run down of how best to accomplish this task? Thanks.

[914forme]

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) Nailed it, If you want to save the entire assembly, I drill out the pin with a very small amount of the wall left. I then take some pliers and slowly bend the edges up all the way around. The entire thing will drop out with a tap from a punch, I place the dot into a hole I drilled into a wood base.

To reassemble I have a holder that holds the center dot in place and I can take a die I made and get it all lined up in the press. Give it a bit of pressure and it is reseated.

I do all of that for what, because when you put it back into the new face, I normally add a bit of epoxy to make sure it does not fall off.

Don't want it to be like the needle in my buddies Cayenne with the sport chronologically clock, where you see the hand at the bottom of the gauge where it fell off. Lots of them show up on Ebay with the small sweeps fallen off.