so a year later, i reckon i'll update this a little...
back in the fall, i was working with our laser etcher in the shop & got to thinking... we use this to friggin burn into stainless steel - surely i can cut some plastic. so i took my backing plate off the gauges & cut the twistlock holes into circles. fits right over them now at whatever position they happen to be turned in :)
and, as expected, those incandescent purple bulbs burned through their color in a matter of weeks :/ i just left them in there anyway with a orangish-purpley color going on. then, this week, i finally got my new bulbs in... i found some great purple LEDs last fall & have had 1 pair (as a test) that's been in all sorta different places to see where all it'd work as well as the build quality, etc. i finally bought enough for all the bulbs i wanted to convert over & got them installed in the gauges & ash tray this weekend (as well as a bunch in the car). holy crap, they're so much more amazing now!! these gauges look so much better than i imagine when i first came up with this concept. as you can tell, i'm pleased with the outcome! the purple's a nice rich color & the red show up even better now.
