How to make your very own working steampunk gauge

Part 7 - Having no horrible digital displays, the Victorians relied upon mechanical gauges to communicate information. Steampunk machines therefore require working gauges and how better to achieve this than use a moving coil meter, one of the last vestiges of the analogue age?

Thankfully the moving coil meter I've used is still available to purchase on eBay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/183147565986, so you too can include analogue gauges to communicate anything from barometric pressure, temperature, minutes and seconds, to rain fall and kraken proximity! The seller seems to be running low, but sells other similar gauges that display different ranges, but have identical workings inside (just a differnt resister). They have a 2.5 printed on the bottom right of the dial.

As well as showing how to dismantle and re-label the gauge, I also explain how it can be illuminated and easily adapted to run off an Arduino or similar.

As always I'm happy to answer any questions in the Comments and both Climatic Revelators will be available to purchase with the steampunk event discount.

https://steamhead.co.uk/climatic%20re...
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Steamhea...