I've done it. You have to grind the back sides of the rivets off and find a way to reattach them. I used JB Weld. This was on a '70 Charger.
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I used a cutoff wheel to cut the rivets on the back side.
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Pry the face off....
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I was able to do this while leaving the needle alone.
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I tried to find a picture of where I smeared the JB Weld. I can't find it. I had 3 clusters, I just used the cleanest faces of all the gauges to make a complete set. Here is the finished job.
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