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Date:         Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:28:34 -0500
Reply-To:     Ryan Heidcamp <RHeidcamp01@COMM-WORKS.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Ryan Heidcamp <RHeidcamp01@COMM-WORKS.COM>
Subject:      Re: Removing Badging question
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Heat gun or hair dryer and dental floss or fishing line. Heat up the badge, or park the car so the sun warms it for a some time. Carefully take the string of choice and saw back and forth cutting the double face tape. Work around the pins as much as possible. Since your painting, hit with the random orbit and your good to go. Or use some Goo Gone or wax and grease remover to clean up the glue if your not painting. Buff the surface and rewax, if you paint was super oxidized, it should make. If you paint has oxidized/faded, get ready to do some buffing.

-----Original Message----- From: Ben T [mailto:BenTbtstr8@AOL.COM] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 3:12 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Removing Badging question

In a message dated 7/29/02 12:41:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Malcolm.Stebbins@MSVU.CA writes:

<< Can anyone please tell me how to go about removing the badges without breaking them. I looked at the under (interior) side and there are no metal rings/clips or anything holding the badges on, just looks like plastic pushed in through a hole and maybe then melted to hold the badges in place. Thanks, Malcolm >>

Malcolm,

The emblems are held in place primarily by double sided adhesive trim tape. Probably 3M. There are small studs which are then pushed onto plastic grommets. That is all. You can carefully pry the emblems off. I find they are much easier to remove on a warn sunny day. The adhesive gets a bit softer then. The studs in back are most likely used to locate the nameplate properly more than any other purpose (IMHO).

BenT http://hometown.aol.com/bentbtstr8/myhomepage/index.html


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