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I ordered new tank and side cover badges and found that they are all gold or (tan) colored...I wanted the original silver color...I have yet to find any...Does anyone know if there is a place I can send my old ones to, and they can restore them? I am not sure if it is possible or not...Any help would be appreciated.
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The originals were Gold according to many sources here. They go silver because years of wear simply rubs the gold tint off. Guess you could take the new ones and use some super fine rubbing compound and shine the letters up like you want. Its just sprayed on tinting far as I know.MY BIKES..1977 GS 750 B, 1978 GS 1000 C (X2)
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I wonder if it's a UV thing? Maybe you could but the badges under a tanning bed. Wouldn't that be funny. Go in golden, come out white.
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Originally posted by chuck hahn View Post
78 were silver here chuck and our tank badges were different to the usa modelsComment
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Thanks, that clears that up.
I will put the new gold emblems on, even though I like the silver better with my new paint scheme....Thanks for the help guys.Comment
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Look on the backside of your old emblems.Comment
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And therein lies the answer, unless you are going for factory correct restoration with the original paint scheme, it does not matter what was original or not.even though I like the silver better with my new paint scheme
pointless having something that looks odd but is "original".
Better to use what works with the paint scheme and looks right and pleasing to the eye.
A few grades of water paper and a bowl of water with a piece of high density foam as a rubbing block will get the gold off and leave a nice smooth silver finish.Comment
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Silver ones are available on Ebay.Originally posted by Meriban View Posthttp://i632.photobucket.com/albums/u...00080021-1.jpg
1978 GS1000C
1979 GS1000E
1980 GS1000E
2004 RoadstarComment
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Yeah, they seem to have been silver back in the day. I had to find some NOS badges for my 850 from eBay. If you order a new set, you'll get whatever they last looked like after a couple part number supercessions. I tried that and got side cover badges that were about 3 years wrong. Bike Bandit was no help with that, either. One more reason to shop elsewhere.Dogma
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'80 GS850 GLT
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Not on my 1978 GS1000 nor my 1980 GS850. I couldn't tell what they were originally on my '82 GS850Comment
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There you have it. They were originally gold and UV "bleached" them out over the years.Originally posted by tkent02 View Posthttp://img633.imageshack.us/img633/811/douMvs.jpg
1980 GS1000GT (Daily rider with a 1983 1100G engine)
1998 Honda ST1100 (Daily long distance rider)
1982 GS850GLZ (Daily rider when the weather is crap)
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Well, since I live in AZ it won't be long until the UV rays do the bleaching for me.Comment
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Sorry, I disagree, they were silver from the factory.
Just do a Google image search and find one with gold emblems.Comment
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Then will will have to agree to disagree!
Which reminds me. I can pull your fuel tank off the shelf and have a look at those.Comment
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