[TR] Repairing Cloisonne Badge

Joe Burlein supertr6 at earthlink.net
Thu May 20 04:14:36 MDT 2010


That is a change.  I bit over 10 years ago I bought one of TRFs badges 
and it was perfect.  Fit and looked right (unlike those crappy chrome 
bits everyone sells).  I wonder if they changed suppliers?

Brian Jones wrote:
> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 18:53:28 +0000
> From: "Foster, Stan (HP IT)" <stan.foster at hp.com>
>
>   
>> You can get a new enamel badge for around $50 plus shipping. See 1st page in
>> the TR Shop flyer.
>>     
>
>   
>> http://www.trshop.co.uk/special.html
>>     
>
> Stan: I have a replacement badge from TRF. While it looks shiny and new and
> all, its does not conform to he compound curve of the sheet metal the way the
> original did and the pins are thinner than the holes, allowing movement that
> over time has damaged my paint. trshop's may be better, but I wish I'd thought
> of repairing the enamel on my original badge rather than replacing an original
> for a poor copy.
>
> Brian
>
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