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See attachment for guidance, materials, methods to sympathetically rejuvenate those Senior gauge faceplates (the ones that chip or flake after 88 years of sun/cold/water/aging).

The juniors and senior interior trim (heater, some steering columns, radio receiver box, etc) often used a semi-gloss/matte finish of this same dark brown color, if they weren't being painted to a special order customer-desired accent color.

IMPORTANT NOTE #1: These faceplates can be removed if you carefully unbend the chrome instrument bezel edge tabs that hold the glass lense & pressure shim against the faceplate to the gauge "backshell". They are in front of the gauge mechanisms and the bezel/glass/shim/faceplate all slip off in that order.

IMPORTANT NOTE #2: These faceplates core material are brass. They were then nickel plated (to highlight the dual inner circle hub wee trim rings). Then they were painted the brown matte/satin/flat color and the trim rings were "wiped" clean. After working on several dozen of these exact gauges, I find that the inner ring/hub is USUALLY in excellent shape. It is a laborious/costly proposition to do the 100 pt $300k Pebble Beach full strip, re-nickel plate, paint/wipe restoration, so I recommend my partial rejuvenation method where this center hub is protected, masked and preserved as is.

Be super patient and careful...put it down and come back another day if you start hitting challenges and spread your operations out over several days. I am blessed in WY with dry climate, so don't spray on the hottest/humid day of the year to avoid hazing.

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Since you have both 25 and 30 gallon gauges.

Can you do an ohms test and see if the ohms are the same.

Also the wire size,

Thanks.