Re: '49 instrument panel lights question.

Posted by Hans Ahlness On 2015/7/30 22:06:11

That's neat, I didn't know about that feature on those cars. My high-tech, space age 1956 Cessna 172 four place airplane also has luminous instruments, that work with normal light (it uses red spotlites to illuminate the panel). Trouble is, you cannot get those instruments rebuilt as the EPA or somebody has determined that the radium paint used is hazardous (radiation) so nobody will touch them. After all these years it barely works anyway, I can shine a flashlight at a gauge and it will glow brightly for about 5 seconds after.