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Repro vin plates?


Uncle-Pekka

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...what-you-call, the oval plates on the firewall in engine bay.

Aluminium, have once been red color etched.

The ones in my car are badly oxidized, hardly any of original surface left.

I have not seen these reproduced, are they?

A wild idea I got: Newsprint houses do the print offset plates on aluminium sheets. The process is quite fast & easy. They take "a photocopy" of the page, place the negative on the al.plate, which has photosensitive coating. Its been exposed to strong UV for 10-20 sec., then run throught an acid bath. The exposed areas come off, rest carry color.

Could be a possible method to reproduce the badges for our cars?

Does anyone have really well preserved ones on their cars to post a HQ photo?

/Pekka

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