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Bringing back those little white letters....

Discussion in 'XJ Technical Chat' started by mikeames, Jul 6, 2011.

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    Bringing back those little white letters....on our controls on the handle bars and such.
    Anyone ever find a good way to repair or re-do the little white letters on the handlbar controls? I'm talking the words like "Run" and "Stop", "Horn" ect...
    Many of mine aren't inlayed (or I would just paint them). They appear to have been silk screened or something like that. I'd like to find a way to make them like new again...without buying brand new controls of course.
    Been wondering if someone could make vinyl lettering that small...
    Any thoughts?
     
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    Reproductions are available from a number of sources; some are quite expensive and require 'lacquering on' and some are inexpensive cheap stick ons. They pop up on eBay a lot (that's where I got mine, stick on style) and you might check with chacal to see what he has.
     
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    No luck on eBay ATM.

    Great links. That was one of my mini projects while redoing brake systems soon.
     
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    Lacquering on? What's that? Can you point me to any of those sources, both cheap and expensive?
    I'll keep checking Ebay, although I have a constant search of anything XJ1100 and ahven't seen them there yet. Might need to expand that a bit...
     
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    Sure: http://www.reproductiondecals.com/defau ... .html~main

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    http://www.bdesigns.ca/80s_Yamaha.htm

    The "lacquering on" process, courtesy BDesigns' site: http://www.bdesigns.ca/handlebar_contro ... lation.pdf

    As for the cheap ones, the link I had saved is broken. I'll try to dig up the actual contact info of the guy I got mine from. The "RD" set Rick gave you the link to has the "off/run/off" in the wrong orientation.
     
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