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Arch stanton:
Hello Folks.
There must be someone on here that has used the clock faces supplied by CB750faces.com.
I have a pair, but i have noticed they are a lot lighter colour on the rear side thus letting a lot more light through.
So my questions are.
Do these faces light up correctly?
Or do they let too much light shine though?
Or even cast silhouettes of the clocks workings?
I'm thinking maybe i could use some self adhesive vinyl
On the back to prevent the problem I'm anticipating.
You're thoughts & experiences would be greatly appreciated.
Sean.

Nurse Julie:
I had Marcels (CB750faces.com) faces fitted when Peter (Kent400)  overhauled the clocks on my CB400/4 and those ones are fine as far as the background lighting is concerned. Why don't you message Marcel and ask him / discuss it with him?

Green1:
I have those faces on the 750 there so dull at night I wouldn't mess with them.

Arch stanton:
I forgot to mention the clocks in question are Green F1 clocks. Dont know if that makes any difference.

kent400:
I've fitted dozens of faces obtained from Marcel, CB350F, CB400F CB500F and CB750F and a gauge illumination problem has never been reported to me. The light does not shine though the faces, there's reflectors in the bases so the light shines round the inner bodies and over the faces. Fair to say the illumination of any of these gauges was never great, in fact the gauges fitted to the CB500F has only one bulb and the faces on those are aluminium. It's not a great idea to use a higher wattage bulbs, these little bulbs get very hot and a higher wattage one gets even hotter. On some designs of gauges where the mileage or trip counter wheels are close to the bulb apertures the heat from the bulbs can distort the counter wheels. Only the recommended bulbs should be used and those with the extended dome should be avoided.

I always bright zinc plate the bases, whether or not this improves the reflection inside the base I'm not sure but probably to a small degree.

The colour of the inside of Marcel's faces are white rather than green  but I can't see that makes any difference. The actual face colour originally is difficult to determine, they are always faded to differing degrees and printed originally at different batches leading to colour differences. Obviously Marcel has done a considerable amount of research on face colours and I think they are very close to original. Again I never had anyone tell me the colour is wrong.

Fitting dial face overlays isn't going to improve the illumination but maybe LED bubs would, perhaps there's a forum member fitted these and can report if there's an improvement.

         

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