After my adventures last week, losing my toolbox on the way home from the TRGB
Autojumble (see True Gentleman!), I did actually manage to come home with some
stuff from TRGB, including an old clock (which, with an old radio, a battery
clamp, and an armrest cost me a fiver!). This is not a perfect match for the
other gauges (it is a Keinzle), but it is the right size and reasonably
similar, and it works (!), so I plan to fit it to Daffy - she's not a tidy
enough car for me to worry about acheiving perfection, by a long way!!
Anyway, this means I will have to start chopping holes in my dash. I plan to
put the clock where the light switch currently sits, between the temp gauge
and the fuel gauge, so there are 3 nice gauges in a row - the light switch
moves to the far side of the steering wheel, currently empty.
Anyway, my question - How do I cut the hole to fit the gauge? Presumably I
need a hole the diameter of the gauge body, plus a recess the diameter of the
outer rim, creating a stepped hole, so the gauge is recessed like the others.
The main hole is no problem - I plan to use an electric jigsaw - but how do I
create the slightly larger diameter recess? I suppose the perfect answer is
to use a router, but I don't own one, nor do I really want to spend the money
on one to fit a clock that cost me a fraction of a fiver. I do own a couple
of electric hand drills as well as the jigsaw, but that's about it for power
tools. Can I get an attachment for a drill that will do it for me? If I try
that have I got a hope in hell of keeping a straight-ish (or rather a
smooth-ish-ly curved) line, and even depth? What else could I do? Can
routers be rented, and if so, for what sort of money?
Richard and Daffy (got me tunes now, just want to know the time!)
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