Removing brittle speedo needle.

[bananacustard]

Has anyone got any tips or experience removing the white plastic needle from a speedo? I've tried before unsuccessfully, it broke very easily . I'm trying to replace the missing one on my 68 speedo with one from a 72 ( very kindly donated by Earlybay good guy Harlequin ).

 

[Araon]

Sadly not been able to do that myself (two needles down) so eagerly watching.....

 

[bananacustard]

Yeah, I'm scared of ending up with a pile of perfectly good later speedos with no needles.

 

[sparkywig]

Sadly not been able to do that myself (two needles down) so eagerly watching.....

Ditto. :roll:

 

[the irv]

when i did mine i gripped the large silver disk just inside the main housing
above the cable connection.
(this moves with the needle) so then you hold the needle firm.
then i just very very gently twisted the needle off. got to admit after doing this twice
now had one complete success and one partial failure (small crack in the needle
which i glued)

 

[bananacustard]

Well, I found a way to do it . Carefully cut away at one of the lugs on the back of the needle with a modelling knife and then very careful leverage from below the needle. It came of in one piece with no cracks and is now firmly attached to my 68 only speedo.