Clean Gauges

[71 LONG BED]

I got my F-750 gauge panel painted (Wimblton White) and reassembled. Came out pretty good. I wish I took before pics. still need to make blank-outs for were the tach and the air gauges used to be.

The original gauges were hard to get perfectly clean. I can still see smears and smuges. Any ideas on how to get them smear free?

[71 LONG BED]

I did it again... where is my pic? I didn't realize it was telling me that it was to big. here it is...

[capeclassics]

Flippin Sweet..............

[jor]

Nice job! BTW, whatever you do, don't use any water when cleaning the gauges themselves. The white paint smudges and comes right off! Guess Ford didn't design these babies to run underwater.
jor

[71 LONG BED]

Yeh, I found out the white smudges. I used a little Windex on a clean paper towel. When the white started to smudge I stopped. I didn't want blank gauges!!! So how do I clean them so there aren't any smears. By the way, the smears aren't the white paint, they are just smears like when you clean your windows.

[jor]

After suffering the same smudge issue as you, I wiped each of them carefully with a soft cloth and blew some compressed air on them (not too high pressure). They weren't perfect but after the set was installed and covered with the glass, they look great. Good luck.
jor