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Just thought I'd share my restoration of my horn, headlight, and fog light relay. The cases of the horn and headlight were straightened, blasted and powder coated the appropriate colors. I reproduced the artwork and sent it out to my printer who pad printed onto each cover. Better than new. The fog is NOS for comparison. The printing isn’t as crisp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Cv_YGRNHA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO_Ca7cTM1s

VERY nice!

Great Job Dave! They look perfect.

Mike

Now its certain, my car will never be among the very best!

is the mount for them made by you or ?

Gabe Renga wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2019 9:46 pm is the mount for them made by you or ?

Not sure what you mean by mount? The photos are the factory fuse block and bracket if that’s what you’re referring to.

Ok. I will take a double look at mine. I don’t think I have the mount/bracket for the relays.

Dave. Very nice job. Do you have the RAL numbers on the powders you used for me to put in my data base?

Thanks

John

Dave Whittick wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2019 4:39 pm Just thought I'd share my restoration of my horn, headlight, and fog light relay. The cases were all straightened, blasted and powder coated the appropriate colors. I reproduced the artwork and sent it out to my printer who pad printed onto each cover. Better than new.

Very nicely done. Thanks for sharing the pad print videos. How hard was it to find someone to do a one-off pad print?

Dennis Vogel wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2019 3:28 pm Very nicely done. Thanks for sharing the pad print videos. How hard was it to find someone to do a one-off pad print?

To be honest, I didn't know about the process until I started to ask around. A friend of mine suggested it after he had had some dash knobs printed. The company happened to be in Toronto as well. They had no problem running one off jobs although they had just finished a large job for BMW before they were able to get to mine. I assume they prefer the larger jobs due to the setup time involved. The price was quite reasonable considering.

Perfection!!!

Very nice. It's hard to get those right.

Originals were not powder coat, just painted not much better than a quick spray bomb job.

For rubber stamps, here's a company two blocks from my office: http://www.nevadarubberstamp.com/UI/en-US here in Reno, NV .

Brad Ripley wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2019 12:53 am Originals were not powder coat, just painted not much better than a quick spray bomb job.

For rubber stamps, here's a company two blocks from my office: http://www.nevadarubberstamp.com/UI/en-US here in Reno, NV .

Of course the originals were painted. Like I said in my original post, better than new.

Any pics of how yours turned out with the stamp?