1946 Mercury Speedometer

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psogden

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Looking for replacement glass for my 1946 Mercury speedometer or entire speedometer if glass is good. My car is a convertible that sat out in the desert for many years and the numbers on the speedometer glass got cooked. 46 is different from 47-8 for those of you not in the know.
 
A local glass shop can cut circular glass .... plain double strength glass. Give them the measurement (diameter). Cut a cork gasket to seat the glass against the metal front.
 
Some instrument glass have the numbers silk screened on. The paint will eventually crumble and fall to the bottom. Some of the repros like this use decals made of plastic so hopefully it will last longer but I don't know if it does or not. I think the Mercury of that vintage had the numbers silk screened on the outer dial face plate. Speedo resto shops generally have to re screen the dials or have them done. Some of the more popular models have reproduction dial faces available but the Mercury stuff has never been as popular as the Ford stuff.
 
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