How to revamp your badges

[SEI Wide Boy]

Hi All,

Whilst on the website i thought i'd share a bit of a cost saving idea i had recently.

If you want to convert your badges on the Trevor to gold / black, it will cost you about 40 quid ish to do so at TVR.

Here's what i did.

1 Take your badges off and give them a good clean . scrub with fine wire wool (not too hard to scratch)

2 spray a fine gold primer over your badge and let it dry. Do that a couple of times

3 spray your badge with your chosen colour (in my case gold). again do this a few times, but make it light coates.

4 put a piece of paper on a flat surface (in my case the kitchen as the missus wasn't in) and spray some black paint onto the paper.

5 Take the dry badge and dip it onto the paper (you may have to do this a couple of times). The outer part of the badge picks up the black paint, and hey presto, new badges.

TVR cost £40 quid

My cost £6.85 and a saturday afternoon (plus a miffed missus when she found out - although she did appreciate the nice badges after about 6 months)

Hope it's useful

all the best

Paul

[madant69]

Post some pics bud!!

[magnus]

sounds great! You forgot one thing---a coat of clear varnish for protection

[Corin Denton]

I'd like to convert my Chimaera badge backing from black to blue, can I sand down the black and refinish it??

[Big Al.]

Corin Denton said:

Can I sand down the black and refinish it??

I wouldn't! I'd use paint stripper, take em off the car first though. OH

[Woody_450]

How are they attached? Do they use the normal black sticky pads? I've never looked

Rich

[Big Al.]

Woody_450 said:

How are they attached?

Well on mine which was built on a Thursday BTW

Two studs on each go though the bodywork, and are secured with nylocs and washers.

[Corin Denton]

Big Al. said:

Corin Denton said: Can I sand down the black and refinish it?? I wouldn't! I'd use paint stripper, take em off the car first though. OH

Thanks Al!

Anyone done this???

[Big Al.]

Yep, did my front one, cleaned out the old paint splodged in the new, cleaned off surplus.
Paint still kept falling out, so I brought a Leven jobby 6 months ago, £50 very well spent still looks like new.

[Corin Denton]

Al, it's the rear Chimaera 500 badge I mean. I want a blue backgound behind the lettering.

[Big Al.]

Corin Denton said:

It's the rear Chimaera 500 badge I mean. I want a blue backgound behind the lettering.

Same principle!

[Corin Denton]

Superb, thanks mate!