Re: [DeTomaso] Repairing of a capillary T ° gauge

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/25/06 9:29:35, guido_detomaso at prodigy.net writes:

<< You gonna have to find a specialist for that.  I think it's alcohol that 
was

inside, or, as you suggest, something not air.

>>>Yes--normally these types of gauges are sold as a self-contained unit--the 
gauge, line and sender are all one 'thing', and if you break one, the whole 
thing goes in the trash.


>One company I've heard of is "Nisonger"...but I've yet to have any work done

there so cannot vouch for them.  Also, they seem to have a "Cobra fixated"

website now, no mention of repairing capillary gauges...though I'm fairly

certain they used to do this.


http://www.nisonger.com

>>>Nisonger is owned by Burt Burtis.  He was the founder of Contemporary 
Classic Cars, the company that designed and built my Cobra replica.  He originally 
founded Nisonger just to manufacture gauges for the replica Cobra market, but 
then branched out into repair of all sorts of old-car gauges.  His Cobra 
business finally went broke after 20 years, but apparently the instrument business 
is still healthy.


>A quick google search found this:


http://www.gaugeguys.com/


But their price to repair a capillary gauge is more than their price of a

new one (?)

>>>Yeah, there's a lot more labor involved I suspect.


>Is your broken gauge not cheaply available new? >>

>>>Let's hope it is!

Mike