Side panel badges

Double sided foam tape.
At least the badges can be removed without damage, unlike Araldite.
 
I wish someone made stickers for SFs, those bloody aluminium things are missing at least in part from most SFs. How are Jota side cover badges held on originally?
 
Tippie said:
I wish someone made stickers for SFs, those bloody aluminium things are missing at least in part from most SFs. How are Jota side cover badges held on originally?
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soft pins - just had my lot off for re enamelling and very good they look too now - RGS ones have been glued and thats far more tricky so they have stayed on 
 
SimonR501 said:
'Starlock' washers on the prongs inside are very secure and readily available.
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What about when a PO removed the badges by grinding the prongs off  >:(

Don't use araldite. The PO painted my bike. He chopped the prongs off all the side cover badges to remove them, then used araldite to put them back on. It's now time for a re-paint, and it'll be a pain in the arse to get the badges off.
 
Gutter mastic and gaffer tape , looks shit but they never come of
 
TC said:
Araldite is simple epoxy Cam, a heat gun will get them off, epoxy dosnt like heat.
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Not quite that simple Tom. Not all epoxy compounds are the same. Some are better at withstanding heat than others. Araldite is suitable for high temperature use, up to a limit when it eventually starts to fail, but it's stable and still quite hard at temperatures well over 200C. This is from the Araldite website "Araldite? EP 300 A/B Adhesive is an extrudable, two-component, room temperature curing epoxy adhesive designed for service temperatures up to 400?F (204?C)".

I dunno what kind of polymer the side cover is made from, but there's a strong possibility that it'll soften before the araldite does.

I remember many years ago when my brother fitted a reed valve to his Yamaha RT360, which necessitated cutting a port in the skirt of the piston for the valve to work. The experiment wasn't a great success so he removed the reed valve, but was left with a hole in the piston skirt. No problem - he cut a bit of aluminium sheet to fit the hole and stuck it in with Araldite. It stayed there for many years and the araldite went as hard as glass with the heat from the engine. It was still there when he sold the bike. The next owner would have got a surprise when he pulled the top end off.  :D
 
Dellortoman said:
Not quite that simple Tom. Not all epoxy compounds are the same. Some are better at withstanding heat than others. Araldite is suitable for high temperature use,
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MMM, sorry for the mis information Cam, but I would still give it a try, Ive had to remove many home epoxy jobs and the heat gun has always been the answer.
Cheers
Tom
 
Tippie said:
I wish someone made stickers for SFs, those bloody aluminium things are missing at least in part from most SFs. How are Jota side cover badges held on originally?
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I always use image works in Nottingham in the uk.... they will make you what you want

Stuart
 
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