light bulb covers under gauges

[natewesselink]

im pretty sure that a few of you have lost those little pieces of round, colored plastic that cover the indicator lights right under your gauges
my question is where can you find just those without having to buy the whole kit again

[DoD#i]

You either get creative with epoxy, colored plastic, and hole saws, dremels, etc, or you buy another gauge mount bracket - The Official Proper Suzuki lenses are not sold separately - only on the ~$90 bracket.

Mind you, other than prying them off to incorrectly access the bulbs which are accessible from the back, I'm not sure how they are getting damaged - they just sit there, and they are not bathed in brake fluid like that annoying window in the front master cylinder reservoir.

A possible starting point for all-y'all that are looking for this type of thing, but might want a better starting point than bare plastic or scrap reflectors would be lenses for LED indicator lamps. You'd still need to cut and slash and glue to make them work, but sizes slightly smaller than and slightly larger than the stock size are available in all the colors you want for under $2 each. I don't see any the exact size.

http://www.mouser.com/catalog/635/137.pdf

[ohgood]

uhm, some guy was supposed to machine those little plastic pieces ohhhhh, 2 years ago now ? he even had  someone on the board ship him the material to play with. he's always got an excuse for being slow/late/asleep at the machine too !

(sorry, I'll get on it this week and see if the little lathe at work can handle it)

[DoD#i]

I resemble that remark - not on this specific item, but I have a pile of osage orange I've had for not quite year from which I'm supposed to turn 16 chisel handles.

Whenever I get them done, I'm going to hang a huge sign over the lathe, and perhaps another one over the computer, reminding me that I can turn stuff first, then sell it, but doing custom turning work (agree to work, then go to lathe) for others is usually more of a pain in the patootie than it's worth.

Is lovely wood, but trying to get 3 sizes matched to pattern (no, not pattern-lathed - that's butchery, don't go there) with minimal waste and it's not my own pattern - ugh.

Also, time to get going on presents for December, now. Except I'm already out of time....