Hi Lee:
Does indeed look like nice work. Also looks rather expensive...
I'm thinking of trying black lacquer and building up layers. Or perhaps black
varathane will build up quicker.
Cheers,
Mark
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From: triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net [triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Lee Daniels [lee@automate-it.com]
Sent: May 15, 2010 3:21 PM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [TR] Repairing Cloisonne badge
There's a place called Allan Heywood Enamels that does cloisonne repair,
including "auto badge" repairs. But... he's in Australia. See here:
http://heywoodenamels.com/
The examples on his site look very nice.
> My TR6's grill badge needs repair. A fair bit of the enamel has come away,
> although the rest of the badge (chrome etc) is in very good shape. Has
anybody
> had good luck filling in with some readily available substance? Epoxy etc?
> POR+topcoat?
>
> Somehow I suspect that I should avoid scraping out the entire badge and
then
> getting black glass powder and firing in a kiln...
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