Albatross side badge restoration

[Jaguar]

Has anyone had experience with restoring the 'chrome' on aluminium Albatross side badges?...I have one good and one not so good........

[Dakota]

Hi Jaguar,

I removed and restored mine last year by removing old paint and replacing with black cold enamel to restore colour.

They look a lot better but not perfect

MT

[Jaguar]

Hi, thanks for that but I need the chrome restored as well. I have had one quote of £150 to strip and rechrome with no paint or £50 just to strip and polish the bare aluminium.

[Good buy]

Strip paint with paint stripper . Re polish badge , they were never chromed . Re anodize badge . Repaint badge , wipe of excess paint with a sponge with a bit of white sprite.

[Jaguar]

sounds good in practice but the chrome will need to come off first!.....thats the expensive and risky bit as the whole badge could disapear in the acid tank!

[Sea-Jay]

sounds good in practice but the chrome will need to come off first!.....thats the expensive and risky bit as the whole badge could disapear in the acid tank!

Go to your local motor factor, buy some DEB Acidic Metal Cleaner - mostly Phosphoric Acid (great for cleaning all metals & alloy wheels). Soak the badges for about a week and all the old anodising will come off.

Polish them, then paint the black bits and laquer overall - works a treat!

[silver fish]

I've just done a pair of quite poor ones. Acid first to remove the anodize, then cut and polish, etch prime and paint. pics below hopefully

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HTH

[Sea-Jay]

That's exactly what I did!!!