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Title: Removing Gold Lettering from Saddles
Post by: Clean on February 12, 2014, 11:03 PM
Peeps,

I have a lovely NOS Kobe MX Copy saddle for my 2014 build, which has KMX on the side in Gold Foil lettering. Minus the "K" it would be a mintola dead ringer for a Kashi MX.  ::)

As much as I would love to buy a mint NOS Kashi MX for my build, the last one I watched on eBay went for almost three hundred notes, if I remember correctly.  :tickedoff:

So.... does anyone have a neat trick for removing the lettering using some nice science, or is it a slow and scratch-risk ridden job with a scalpel?   ???

Thanks, y'all,  :daumenhoch:

Clean.

Title: Re: Removing Gold Lettering from Saddles
Post by: oberonspacefruit on February 13, 2014, 08:42 AM
Try roughing up the underside of the saddle with sandpaper ie an area that wont be seen. then attempt to polish it back to shiny with progressively finer grades of wet and dry, tcut, 3m etc. if you can get it shiny on the underside, it will obviously work on the lettering.
Ive done it on the back of a kashi, to remove some areas that had been heavily marked, presumably from a fall. the polishing method worked fine, although i obviously had to remove a bit of material with a blade to get the contour of the saddle correct.

on another note, vinylprep, then vinyl cote paint looks very similar to the nylon finish on kashi/elina seats.
Title: Re: Removing Gold Lettering from Saddles
Post by: boofy44 on February 13, 2014, 12:11 PM
doesn't nail varnish remover or some solvent like that work?
Title: Re: Removing Gold Lettering from Saddles
Post by: rollin72 on February 13, 2014, 05:00 PM
lighter fluid for a zippo does the trick
Title: Re: Removing Gold Lettering from Saddles
Post by: Dark Diggler on February 13, 2014, 05:02 PM
nitromors on fine wire wool
Title: Re: Removing Gold Lettering from Saddles
Post by: Bigfrawg on February 13, 2014, 05:18 PM
Fire will shift it
Title: Re: Removing Gold Lettering from Saddles
Post by: Clean on February 15, 2014, 09:32 AM
Thanks for the (more or less) constructive comments.

For the record, nail varnish remover did it.

 :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Removing Gold Lettering from Saddles
Post by: oberonspacefruit on February 16, 2014, 09:20 AM
Is there any "ghosting" shadow of the letters, once the paint was removed?....it was presumably paint rather than foil
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