Best of luck. I called a salvage yard awhile back where they were parting out a Barth. Asked about the emblems and the guy sort of chuckled. They are in great demand.
You'd think that someone like Dale Smith would make a pattern from an original and produce a few sets from stainless steel and give them away as door prises at the next rally......can I get a second on this proposal? :-)
Posts: 283 | Location: Huntsville, AL USA | Member Since: 11-13-2002
The OEM nameplates were diecast pot metal, with a copper/nickel/chrome plating sequence....We've got one in our aircraft restoration shop that I'm playing around with as time permits, using a lost mold technique.....Quite possible we'll have some dupes in the near future...I'll let ya know.......
Posts: 1266 | Location: Frederick, Maryland | Member Since: 09-12-2003
Wow!....Wasn't aware of the pent-up demand....So let's keep the list growing and try to come up with a total number...The more units needed will affect the technique we'll use (cast, stamped, laser-cut, etc, and the priority we'll give it....
The total units from interest shown on this thread by the end of the month will give us an idea of what the unit cost will have to be, and we'll play around to produce a prototype over the next few weeks after that.
For those with pitted emblems, keep in mind that most one-off plating shops can restore the surface & replate...While most deterioration is merely blistering that can be corrected with buffing & polishing, even pitting-through to the base metal can be corrected with silver soldering & grinding before replating...just make sure it's replated with a copper/nickel/chrome process, and use 18-8 SS fasteners to mount.
So, who else is interested?.............
Posts: 1266 | Location: Frederick, Maryland | Member Since: 09-12-2003
I had a few made of stainless: They cost us $55 each and we had to polish them. With a few bucks for Barthmobile they can be had, unpolished, for $75 including shipping.
Bill NY prefers we do the $$$ so just confirm who wants how many and we will send instructions for payment and get them done.
Only plastic will be less, because we tried to get the old ones restored and the best we could do was $100 each.
1993 32' Regency Wide Body, 4 speed Allison Trans, Front Entry door, Diamond Plate aluminum roof & 1981 Euro 22' w Chevy 350 engine and TH 400 tranny
Posts: 1515 | Location: Houston Texas | Member Since: 12-19-2006
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