[AMC-List] Restoring A Plastic Emblem With Modeling Skills

[Nick ALFANO <71amx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doc,

I would be very careful putting parts with fresh
solvents into a dehydrator. Most dehydrators have an
open element in them that when mixed with flammable
vapors can make for a very nice little bomb.  If you
need to do this, I would continuously purge the
dehydrator with nitrogen.  This will displace the
oxygen in the system removing one of the three needed
elements for ignition.

Nick Alfano
Alfano Performance
Kenosha, WI. 53142
262-942-8271 after 6pm Central and weekends
262-308-1302

Message: 13
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 06:20:48 -0400
From: AMC74Hornet@xxxxxxxxx (Mr. AMC)
Subject: [AMC-List] Restoring A Plastic Emblem With
Modeling Skills
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Well I am down to the last body emblem. All the rest
of them were metal
but this one is plastic. The Castrol Super Clean
stripped off all the
old paint and chrome.
I used moder's Bare Metal foil for the chrome on the
AMC letters and 
the
edging of the R/W/B AMC emblem. I got out the can of
the orange paint
that matched the car and hand painted the edges and
between the letters
and emblem orange like I did on the 3 metal Hornet
emblems. When it
tacked up I sprayed 2 coats of Plasti-kote clear
engine enamel on it to
seal the foil and orange paint into each other and
popped it into my
dehydrator to bake. I also used model sheet plastic to
make the new
R/W/B insert and painted it Plasti-kote white primer
and then with
Plasti-kote gloss white Super Enamel. That too is now
baking. This
afternoon I will paint the blue on the emblem and the
red tomorrow and
then the clear the following day. Then glue it into
the base with 2 
step
epoxy and I am done. About 5-6 hours work total and
nothing for
materials as I already had everything including the
double stick tape 
to
mount the emblem on the car. As usual my modeling
skills came in real
handy and the end result will be an emblem that you
will have to get up
really close to see it is not original. :-)~  
"Doc"


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