I want to fill in the name plate on the fuel tank...

Hey everyone. This question is for the paint and body guys out there: The spot on the fuel tank where the "YAMAHA" plate goes is what I wanna get rid of. Is this gonna be a "Mondo Bondo" job or is there a trick to it? I'm thinking it's too deep for filler, but I'm not a body man...Well, to an extent

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Yeah, I think nuking the tank would be bad! I saw other rides on her that have the emblem area , well, blanked out for lack of a better term. I don't mind the sanding and all the work that goes into it I was just looking for some unique idears.

Thanks 8)

 

back in the day they used lead

 

Amen to that and to be honest it's not that hard on a surface like a tank.

But if you rough it up and leave the tags the badge screws into attached the bondo will do the job. I've done it a few times without problems.

Always debadge my bikes. Love to keep people guessing what popped them at the lights. :wink:

 

Amen to debadging. I wouldn't mind putting them back on if they weren't so yucky looking. But yeah, I've always liked the unmarked bike.

So, let me see;

Cheese grater...Check
Mucho sandpaper...Check
Patience and Sanity..............

Bondo it is

Thank you gentlemen

 

The badges can be sanded and repainted pretty easily. The gold sands right off.

The tank emblems on my bike looked pretty bad, so I sanded the flaking gold leaf off, primed them and repainted. The background is black and the lettering is now red to match the lettering on the engine covers.

They look pretty good (patting himself on the back)

 

Thanks for all the thought guys. at about 1:00am, just as I was falling asleep, I had a brainstorm. Usually those are pretty dangerous. Anyways, I haven't decided if the bike is going to be red or black, but whichever, I'm going to go with a gloss on the backing of the badge (To match the paint on the tank) and go with a more flat, maybe semi-gloss or matte, for the lettering. Anyone got any thoughts on that?

Luckily, I'm at the stage of the project where I can still be undecided, and every idea sounds good :wink: .

 

Fellows ...

Lets restore the Badges.

First ... get it all together.
Letter Color
Background Color
Lacquer Thinner

Here the concept.

First you paint the whole badge with the LETTER Color.
How ever many coats ...
Let DRY and ... Bake it on if you have the lights.

When its totally, completely dry and ... it HAS to be DRIED!

Shoot on the BACKGROUND

Wear Latex Gloves
Use a whole box of Kleenex if you have too.

Dampen ... damp; not even close to wet ... a Kleenex with thinner ...ring it out.
Wrap the Kleenex around your tightly gloved finger and wipe-off the LETTERS.
Work fast.
One pass picking up and wiping off the wet paint off your colored letters.
Change to CLEAN area of Kleenex after picking-up and wiping-off the wet.

If you need the whole darn box ... keep wiping-off the wet paint with clean damp Kleenex.

I know you have the idea, now.
Lets see whose "Got the touch"

Post some pictures of your NEW Badges!

 

Badges?!? we dont need no stinking badges!

sorry..

 

Okay, I'm up to the challenge. I've decided the bike is going to be regal red with black detail. Custom made "XJ550" badging for the covers. Well at least one side cover. Had a mishap the other one.

Note to self: Do not use dishwasher to clean parts for painting, especially if the part has been repaired with fiberglas resin.

 

Well, I wash my Glock in the dishwasher, so I figured no problem with the covers and the cowl. I didn't use the heat option for drying, so I thought all would be well. My problem is that I'm thinking again. 8O

I don't relish grinding off the resin that it was repaired with...Time to go visit the Rice Paddy.

 

The badges on my Seca were cracked from the sun, so I filled in the back of them with a thin layer of silicon tub & tile caulk before I painted them.

Now they are tough as nails.

 

First tank...I popped the little metal brackets off and left a couple small rivet holes. Tried to weld them, trashed the tank by blowing holes through it. Second time I popped off the little pot-metal brackets, again left the rivet holes. Used some JB Weld, filled it in some, then bondo. Presto chango, no problemo.

 

I think I'm going to try with the badges on...We'll see how it goes. At least I won't have to use Bondo :lol:

 

I have a 750 tank on my 650. Badges are gone, filled in with bondo and smoothed over. New paint job a year ago, black with ghost flames. Looks great.

dave

 

bah......... plastic guns

 

my nameplates were missing when i bought the bike and there was a bad bondo job filling the indent...

i had a good body man work on the tank and he filled them and the huge dent that was lurking from an earlier mishap before i bought the bike...

it was painted with 4 coats of Imron white, then i had the Yamaha triple tuning fork emblem painted on in red with flames coming off the back side of the circle...

probably too cheesy for most but i was fresh out of ideas...

david

 

I haven't done anything to my tank yet. But on other car projects I have used the two part Epoxy putty with great results it sands easy enough.