[Staowners] help with restoring a car badge.....

[Bill]

Can you send a picture?

It's a question of what it is made out of. "Enamel" from a jewelry  
stand point refers to glass, but most of what you see is epoxy or  
even just paint. If it is hard enamel and it is not cracked, chipped  
or crazed you are in luck because that is difficult or impossible to  
repair. Hit would have to be refired to melt the glass and bring it  
back together, then polished. If there is enamel missing it is very  
difficult to match it. The problem with polishing is that you will  
likely lose the plating if it is plated, so, it will have to be  
rechromed or whatever it is....

A place to start is Allan Heywood Enamels in Oz...
heywoodenamels.com

Bill Spear
17 Mile Ranch
33792 East Carmel Valley Road
Carmel Valley, CA
93924
831-659-3056

On Apr 4, 2007, at 10:56 AM, raymead at comcast.net wrote:

> > hello all,
> >
> > i just bought a 1960ish car badge..........
> >
> > it is enamelled and the enamelling has lost
> > its lustre - it is "flat" looking...........
> >
> > anyone have a whiz bang way of breathing
> > some life back into this thing??  some way
> > or polishing it??  or????????
> >
> > tks, ray
> >
> > '54 Sunbeam Alpine Mk 1
> > '64 Porsche C coupe
> > '02 Thunderbird
> _______________________________________________
> Staowners mailing list
> Staowners at sunbeamtalbot.info
> http://sunbeamtalbot.info/mailman/listinfo/ 
> staowners_sunbeamtalbot.info