Recent content by Buick From Hell

Disagree all you'd like, that's your priviledge (and it was nicely done, thank you!) But-- Just a short answer to your 'understanding of hot-air tech'. Had you been on this board in the late '90's and early 00's, you'd remember that a great deal of what went on in this neck of the Buick...

I don't much get on the old board here. Just don't have the time. Which means I sure as hell don't have the time to read up on all the trash talking. But I have read some of it. And for some reason I'm still a moderator, so I have some opinions... The title of this thread is "what's up with...

Just so y'all know, while they may look white, the lettering and stripe are painted with a silver metallic Sharpie paint stick. And fwiw the whole overlay is gloss black. Neither of which matches the dull black and gray factory radio bezel. It DOES however, perfectly match the rest of the...

Here's some final pics-- Claude's--- 2-plex glossy version, & closeup 2-plex matte version, & closeup Anodized version, & closeup ======================= They turned out pretty good. And I'm NOT afraid to say they're pretty tedious to make! Thanks everyone! :)

here's a photochop version where I just xferred/pasted the orange from the outer lines--(the orange from the side is darker than the logo, so use your imagination) ;) The green is just green I drew in for Claude... Claude, you want your other borders white or orange?

Claude, I can't make the entire area around the holes white, because this creates a relief engraving situation with the lettering--meaning, I'd have to engrave out everything BUT the letters. Because the letters are so small, even with the smallest diameter cutter tool I could come up with, tool...

no problem painting all the outlines orange...

Here ya go Claude---damn, these things are a lot smaller than I thought! Didn't realize it till I cut the blank for this... anyway, I need to tweak the setup so the engraving isn't so "fat"... BTW, on Steve's plate, the first two upper holes were outlined, but in the photo above, only...

I'm going to have a lot of local catch-up work to do monday, so it might be tuesday afore I get samples ready...

Claude, the lower photo of the sticker will work fine. Can anyone post or send Mark a pic of an original so I know what it looks like? Doing the colors you want in 2-plex will be no problem! (NOTE- that much paint on top of anodized aluminum will be real time consuming and tricky to get right...

Now that I know who I did it for, I found the job---(thanks Steve! :D ) So tell me guys, does this cover replace an existing cover? I'm assuming so as ff sez his is peeling off. And if so, then I'll assume the size and cutouts must remain the same.... I'll start working up some graphic...

So who is this Mark guy anyway? I've never met him, and I've never bought a damn thing from him. ;) But he's almost like family. We've been doing business together for 8-1/2 years. We live 2000 miles apart. And as he mentioned above, we've spoken on the phone ONE time in that 8-1/2 years...

maybe there's some statute of limitations on this, 10 years after the fact is a bit much...

That's insane...Faria should start selling "car" gauges. (Faria makes "marine" gauges)... Right now I can buy a tachometer, a speedo, a fuel gauge, an oil pressure gauge, a voltmeter, a water temp gauge, AND a trim meter (like I said, marine) from a Faria distributor for less than $140 for...

I've heard of guys taking this to the next level---they grab a box, fill it with a bunch of useless junk, then tape the PP envelope to the box and drop it off at the post office...the company gets a box of trash AND have to pay the shipping!