Heater front plate text

Post by **southerly95** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:35 am

When I refurbed our 65 MM heater with a new rad I resprayed the front panel and of course lost the heater words. Does anyone know how to reproduce these please? Thanks, John

Post by **simmitc** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:56 pm

I did mine with "Letraset". Make cure the paint is smooth and hard. Letraset is a sheet of letters, available in different fonts. Place each required letter as needed, then rub over with a pen or similar, and it transfers from the sheet to the heater. When complete a light clear varnish will help protect it.

Post by **aupickup** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 6:35 pm

of course do not use solid letters, as there were breaks in the letters for the template when these were sprayed

Post by **Judge** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:32 pm

Are you sure they were sprayed, and not stipple brushed

Post by **wibble_puppy** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:05 pm

this could get ugly

anoraks at dawn

Post by **Judge** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:41 pm

Are you volunteering to be Ref then Juliet

Post by **aupickup** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:56 pm

quite possibly stippled on, used the word spray very loosely

unless it was a gpo or post office van then they had a water slide transfer

Post by **simmitc** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:08 pm

I've just looked at six old units, and would say that they were ALL water slide transfers; and that's a selection of saloons and travellers. Now I wonder where we can get those re-manufactured? Doe4s anybody have any ideas?

Post by **wibble_puppy** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 3:32 pm

Noticed one concours at thweekend, its warning looked as though it had been sprayed, definitely not stippled

Post by **simmitc** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:48 pm

By "the warning" I assume you mean on the top of the radiator at the front of the car? These were always stencilled / sprayed - it used to be possible to buy the stencil, not sure if anyone has any left these days. We've been talking about the heater unit though.

Post by **Judge** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:56 am

wibble_puppy wrote:Noticed one concours at thweekend, its warning looked as though it had been sprayed, definitely not stippled

Hence my previous comments in various postings, and personal preference for 'original' cars

PS I worked at Cowley for a number of years

Post by **wibble_puppy** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 9:16 am

oh! so you are saying it definitely should be stippled.

Wibble "WOSON*" puppy

*Words of One Syllable Often Needed

Post by **Judge** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:28 pm

I do seem to remember stubby, wooden handled stiple brushes along with templates, but I could be wrong.