FinnShark

I did some cleaning and painting to my Stingray emblem. First I scrub off the adhesives, then put the emblem to dishwasher machine (my wife likes that...), then more cleaning with cleaning compound and finally painting the black areas with model car paint. I'm not 100% satisfied to the outcome, but anyway the emblem is much better than what it used to be.

In the pic the other emblem is straight out from the car. Car is washed before I took the emblem out, but still there is lot of dirt in those tiny corners. Maybe in future I use toothbrush when washing car for the emblems.

jerryp58

Very nice looking :yesnod:

What adhesive do you use to put them back on?

FinnShark

I'm not sure yet what adhesive I'm going to use. I've been thinking to use somekind of silicone or some other elastic stuff. Something which is easy to remove and doesn't attach too heavily to the paint. Emblems were attached with silicone and it seemed to be pretty good stuff. Just have to be careful not to put too much adhesive so it doesn't show beneath the emblem, as it did previously...

Does anybody have any good suggestions what to use?

GaryS

I have been told that 3M makes a good substitute for the sticky stuff that was originally there. I haven't seen it yet, but a guy locally claims to have the name of it. I will ask him via email today.

Did you paint the surfaces by hand with a brush? I need to do this also.
Gary

FinnShark

I painted the black by hand with 00 brush. I figured that it is easier to paint by hand than try to mask those tiny corners... It is fairly easy to make sharp edges by hand to those sharp corners. An in case some paint goes to the unwanted surfaces it is easy to scrape carefully the paint away from these areas with a surgical knife.

Eddie 70

I am really impressed. I just spent the money and got two new ones. Your cleaned and painted one look as good as far as I can tell. Good job. I may try this on my old ones and use it somewhere in the garage.
:cool:

FinnShark

Of course there is some bad points in chrome, the emblem is 27 years old... So if you want the perfect look buy new one... I just wanted to try what I can do with the old ones... One point is also that if I order a new one from States it will cost me double price compared to you guys, because of the shipping and taxes...

groovyjay

Car parts in washing machine? Hope you used OMO sensitive :lol: Seriously looks gr8 Riku. :cheers:

pws69

Gary,
You are correct I believe it's called "Trim and Emblem Adhesive" (I have a tube, but too lazy to go out to the garage!). The stuff works great! The tube looks exactly like the Super Weatherstrip Adhesive tube. Body shop supply store should have it.
Paul

Tomi72

Looks good, I did the same thing year ago. When I put them back on the car I didn't use any adhesive on the back...

rgds Tomi