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Subject: Re: Oil pressure/temp gauge
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 18:05:40 -0800
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<aureliano@my-dejanews.com> wrote in message
news:75mavn$mn8$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com...
>Hey can anyone tell me where to get a combo oil temp/pressure gauge like
the
>one pictured on page 84 of the Nov, 98 issue of European Car. It's shown in
a
>closeup of this M6's instrument cluster and appears to be mounted to the
>steering column. I assume this meter is not a standard M6 item, right?
>
>For those without the issue, it has two vertical scale arches, which meet
at
>their ends, forming a sideways eye shape. The white pointers cross over the
>scale they are not indicating at their base, as well as each other nearer
the
>tip, which is painted red to make it a little more obvious which scale is
>being indicated.
>
>Okay, here's how bored I am. This is what it would look like if both the
>pointers were pointing to the middle of their respective scales (i.e.
>overlapping each other entirely:
>
>---------------------------
>| X      ---------      X |
>|       /         \       |
>|      /  \     /  \      |
>|     /  \       /  \     |
>|    |  \         /  |    |
>|   | P -         -   |   |
>|   |-S-------------F-|   |
>|   | I -         -   |   |
>|    |  /         \  |    |
>|     \  /       \  /     |
>|      \  /     \  /      |
>|       \   OIL   /       |
>| X      ---------      X |
>---------------------------
>
>The Xes are screws at the corners of the housing, the oval inside is the
>glass area, the slashes and dashes inside that are the scale marks for each
>gauge, and the horizontal line is the pointers overlapping each other.
>
>The gauge looks pretty trick, aircraft stylee, with apparently domed glass
>and thin pointers.
>
>Someone's gotta know where to get one.
>
>TIA,
>Ed Nilges
>
>72 BMW 2002tii
>81 VW Scirocco S "Che"
>
Used to be an outfit that advertised in Hot-Rod Mag and the like that sold
aircraft guages that are similiar to what you describe. I don't remember the
name, maybe someone else does. As a last resort, I suppose you could ask a
private pilot or see if there is an airplane NG and ask them.


