Marine Marks custom dash panels?? Anyone??
 

I am working on my 1988 formula 272 dash set up. I have all new gauges are bezels. They needed to be laid out differently to fit. So I needed new panels made. Kind of on a budget so custom aluminum is most likely out of the question.

My question is....Anyone use Marine Marks before for dash panels? They sent me some samples and I really like one of them but I am afraid of the acrylic or whatever they make them out of. i have only been playing with the samples a few hours holding them agains gauges and bezels and such and they seem to scratch easily.....

Thoughts please!!! Before I spend $500 I would like to hear if anyone has used these!

try great lakes schipper or ebay

[QUOTE=Fountain4402;3362349]try great lakes schipper or ebay[/QUOTE

For custom made panels to fit new gauge set up?

[QUOTE=Baja226sport;3362370]they have a lot of stuff, and you might be hard pressed to find a dash customized for 500 bucks. You might be better off getting a stock one and modifying it.

Can you make your own? You can get a piece of aluminum or scrap stainless for under $50. Another $50 for powdercoat and your done.

or just have it custom painted :eek::drink:

B4 shot

and after :eek::drink:

thats what i am thinking use your current dash or find one and get a hole saw and cut out what you want. Or look around for aluminum blanks and make one. Just to get a factory one your looking at probably 300-400. Dont know what you want to spend on this boat, but I wouldnt dump a large sum into an 88.

Paint won't help, hole saw either. The layout of the new gauges will be different as they won't fit with the current spacing.

$500 is the price to have all of my panels made by them out of a material like stock but spaced how I need.

I was just wondering if anyone else used them.

I strongly advise you not to use Marine Marks. The quality of the product is extremely poor and the customer service when there is a complaint is even worse. Had a horrible experience, made complaints, sent pictures, still never recieved a refund.

Sincerely,
SAD

Ditto! exactly as stated above.

I did mine last year to incorporate a Garmin 740 gps and other gauges. I ended up getting water jet cut aluminum panels. I went with 1/4 inch thick aluminum. This was good and bad. Good because I had some thin sections around the
Garmin so it provided some additional strength, bad because the water jet tended to cut the thick material on a bevel instead of straight through so it took a little clean up on my part after the fact. The covering is the 3M stick on carbon fiber look vinyl. That was just too easy and looks good. The water jet panels were $130 and the carbon vinyl was about $50 with plenty left. Good luck.

Dan

Actually had the same experience, I wish you posted before I used them. They took 3 months to make them giving me every excuse from the broke them, lost them, had to re-design them, tornados wrecked their shop but then they were open again some how, family problems, etc after they orignially promised a 10 day turn around time.

Then they were just like you said, cheap, terrible looking, I got carbon fiber, or more like a piece of crap that was supposed to look like it. Then all of the print started peeling after 3 weeks on the boat.

Their customer service sucks, promised a new set of panels, never got them, promised money back, never got it.

Had to pay another shop to make real carbon fiber panels, 2X the amount but should have done it from the start!!!!

Beware Of MarineMarks
 

Sent template to ensure dash panel would be correct. First dash panel that was shipped was wrong. Second panel was so poorly packaged that it was broke in many pieces. Now they don't answer the phone and it has been over 2 months and still no dash panel. Please BEWARE!!!!!!

I can make you a panel if you still need one

A custom aluminum is the only way to go. Alum is easy to work with and powder coat. An electrical hole knock out tool works great in place of hole saws and they are are easy to work with. Alum can be cut with carbide blade wood tools also

1/8 or 3/16 aluminum would definetly be the cheapest way To go
http://www.onlinemetals.com/merchant...=76&top_cat=60
Material in under 100 you can machine it yourself w hole saws and a router, cut to size with a table saw. Just easy to work with in general
I just re did my dash in carbon fiber and bought pre made pieces From these guys
http://www.dragonplate.com/
To save a little money and make my life easier I bought the smaller panels in 3/16 thick cf, and the large main panel i used a cf veneer and glued it to 1/4 lexan. I have pics on my iPad I can email, but don't know how to post from apple stuff