In the past Couple Weeks someone put up a Post on Repairing Temp gauges and had a Link with Photo's from another source, , Having just that Problem I figured I'd come Back and save those Details , I searched and searched but haven't been able to Find it, I am not brightest Light in the street I know , but Maybe it Has dropped off, as apparently From a Previous post this is happening...I have a couple of Perfect Gauge Heads with no Capillary and a Short one Complete I could Try a Swap with. Alternatively is there a Company someone Knows off in the US that does Rebuilds , I can't find anyone left here in Australia that Does them Now .I have Rebuilt the 2 1/2 Oil Gauge and would prefer the Original Type Temp. Gauge for My R2 Resto, Rather than than the New Type Cat supply with a 2 1/2 " Bessel . Sure appreciate any Help or Ideas. LJ

Hi Lance,
this is the best one I have come across that someone kindly posted up the link to recently.
Hope it works out and so would like to know your outcome as I have some late model larger Cat stationary engine gauges here I would like to do.

www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/capi...replacement.1043778/

Maybe this link could get into one of the repair sections for others to locate more readily in future.

Cheers,
Eddie B.

Neil wrote:

That was the one I was looking for, thanks Eddie. I also like the procedure further down the page for cutting the capillary tube using a file and fatigue

For cutting small copper cap tubes like this I use hand held wire strippers- the ones with multiple openings for various wire sizes.

Using the 'hole' for a size smaller than than the cap tube (#18 for a household frig/freezer cap tube) gently rotate (while squeezing) the tool around the tube until the 'cut' is near the tubes bore size then 'break' the tube by bending it.

I splice them by inserting each end of the tubes to be spliced deep into an ~3" piece of 1/4" Cu Refrigeration Tubing and solder (braze). I normally would use SylPhos 15 Silver Solder w/o flux. Solder at the outer ends of the 3" tube well away from the ends of the cap tube. Soft solder would probably work fine for temp gauges.

Daron

Howard Instrument in Melbourne do ether Capillary repairs and guage repairs. 

Thank You all for Your input . Riverina d4 , I will try and Contact Howard Instruments and see What they can do on Monday .,Not sure if I am finesse enough to do the work Myself. This R2 is getting far too much attention to Detail .But it is coming along very well .and Thank You Eddy that detail is what I was looking for , I have Printed that all off so I won't have to go Looking for it again . again thank You all. LJ