[Amps] Meter Faces

[Dr. David Kirkby]

Kim Elmore wrote:
> 
> Do any of you have a favorite way of printing new, multi-scale meter
> faces?  And, when you do this, what do you print it on (equivalently, how
> do you attach it to the old face)? I'd like to change the scales on a
> perfectly fine meter, but so far have no good way to do it.  I found a
> DOS-based program for this purpose, but it is tuned for an odd-ball printer
> that I don't have.
I used CorelDraw, measured the dimensions with a ruler, and drew lines
in the right place. With CorelDraw you can rotate a line by x degrees,
so if like me your meters had an arc of 100 degrees, you could easily
put the tick marks in the right place. It was a bit of an effort. I made
non-linear scales (for power) and coloured areas red, green and orange
for danger, okay and close to limits. I printed to standard photocopy
paper and used spray glue to attach to the meter.

The problem I found was that after a few years some of the colours
bleed, so the things were not as sharp as before. Perhaps printing on
the proper paper for an inkjet, rather than standard photocopy paper
would help, but I've not tried it. 
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Dr. David Kirkby,
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