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| Re: [GMCnet] GMC red letters insignia. [message #188634 is a reply to message #188631] |
Mon, 29 October 2012 10:54   |
Ken Henderson
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Registered: March 2004
Location: Americus, GA
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Joe,
Not a real useful answer, but I just went through an exercise on those:
The red plastic on mine was badly crazed, and growing worse with the
years. At Amana, someone sold me a set of pretty nice ones of the same
size for $3. Since the red looked good but the chrome was coated with
fungus, paint, corrosion, or something, I took them to my buffing wheel for
refurbishment. Trouble is, when the buffing heated up the red plastic, it
popped off of the chromed base.
Since the chromed bases on the mounted GMC were in nice shape, I decided to
try removing only the crazed red letters, using a heat gun. That worked
wonderfully. AND, Surprise!, the good red letters were exactly the same --
fit the old chromed bases perfectly. The only change was that the "new"
"M" was not flat like the old one (had been mounted across a centerline
crease); the heat gun and a heavy weight to flatten it while it cooled
fixed that.
A little silicone adhesive behind each letter and now they look 'most like
new.
The moral of the story is: "Take one of your old letters with you to the
junk yard; you may get as lucky as I was."
Ken H.
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Joe & Sharon Hewitt wrote:
> Lost the letter C out of the front red GMC insignia on my 1977 Royale.
> How do I replace..
>
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| Re: [GMCnet] GMC red letters insignia. [message #188635 is a reply to message #188634] |
Mon, 29 October 2012 11:08 |
Ronald Pottol
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Registered: September 2012
Location: Redwood City, California
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Speaking of insignia, has anyone done anything like this
http://www.davebarton.com/VolvoPrancingMoose.html for the GMC?
Ron
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Ken Henderson <hend4800@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Joe,
>
> Not a real useful answer, but I just went through an exercise on those:
> The red plastic on mine was badly crazed, and growing worse with the
> years. At Amana, someone sold me a set of pretty nice ones of the same
> size for $3. Since the red looked good but the chrome was coated with
> fungus, paint, corrosion, or something, I took them to my buffing wheel for
> refurbishment. Trouble is, when the buffing heated up the red plastic, it
> popped off of the chromed base.
>
> Since the chromed bases on the mounted GMC were in nice shape, I decided to
> try removing only the crazed red letters, using a heat gun. That worked
> wonderfully. AND, Surprise!, the good red letters were exactly the same --
> fit the old chromed bases perfectly. The only change was that the "new"
> "M" was not flat like the old one (had been mounted across a centerline
> crease); the heat gun and a heavy weight to flatten it while it cooled
> fixed that.
>
> A little silicone adhesive behind each letter and now they look 'most like
> new.
>
> The moral of the story is: "Take one of your old letters with you to the
> junk yard; you may get as lucky as I was."
>
> Ken H.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Joe & Sharon Hewitt wrote:
>
>> Lost the letter C out of the front red GMC insignia on my 1977 Royale.
>> How do I replace..
>>
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