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my healey...63 bj7...did not have the 3000 emblem installed on the rear lid. i purchased a new one from one of our sponsoring hosts.. it seems to be of good quality but has been cast straight across the surface that meets the trunk. and, of course the trunk surface is curved just a bit! well i tried to gently place a slight curvature in the emblem and broke the piece. is it up to the buyer to properly bend to match up? also bought a new hood restraining cable which does not have the factory ends. the repro ends are very thick and the hinge bolt that the end fits to is too short to properly bolt on! needless to say i am a bit frustrated this morning...hood cable wont fit...sent the wrong nut for the bolt that attaches the lower eyelet of the restaint to the car, and and a broken emblem! ah...it is the 13th!!!! at any rate the hinge bolt is too short and the emblem needs curvature...ideas appreciated!!
 
Don't buy cheap garbage Chinese repros from you know .... they are far better sources to buy good reproduction parts from
 
healey nut, sent you a private message..thanks
 
Ahead4 Healeys or AH Spares out of the UK has better stuff . Never had issues with any parts from them .
 
I was planning on starting a post about the quality of repro parts, or lack of it.

I have recently purchased expensive parts from main suppliers only to find that they were no where near the originals and impossible to fit. I have even had the parts suppliers telling me not to buy certain parts that they sell as they are useless.

Surely when they purchase these parts from the manufacturers they must do some form of quality control?
 
i have bought several thousand dollars of lesser parts to bring my car back to life....i am also surprised that the quality and fit are not much better. if you can refinish the original parts on your car...chrome, anodize, polish etc i would suggest that you try to keep the original parts....cause most repros are minimal quality at best! probably true for lots of other car models as well.
 
maxwedge5281 said:
i have bought several thousand dollars of lesser parts to bring my car back to life....i am also surprised that the quality and fit are not much better. if you can refinish the original parts on your car...chrome, anodize, polish etc i would suggest that you try to keep the original parts....cause most repros are minimal quality at best! probably true for lots of other car models as well.
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So true . I will spend more money on refinishing , rechroming replating etc etc to bring original back to life than buy crappy repro . I will only replace if the old original is either totally unsalvageable or would be unsafe .
 
ah...it is the 13th!!!! at any rate everything is retrograde on this date.!
 
Info on eBay;
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Don't be fooled by those that claim these emblems were curved. They were not. Over a period of time some of these emblems may have slowly conformed to the shape of the trunk lid.[/FONT]
 
It is possible to bend that emblem if you're careful. Here's how I did it.

1. place a soft rag or towel on a solid hard surface.
2. set the emblem face down on the rag, and fold some rag over the part you want to bend.
3. lift the opposite end up slightly. I helps to put a thin piece of wood under the 3 or the 0 at the end you want to bend. (I used a wooden paint stick approx. 3/16th thick)
4. apply pressure with your thumb about 1/2 way between the tip and letters. you should feel a little give in the casting.
5. you can adjust the position of the stick to make the curve even, and apply pressure as before. The part will bend easiest at any prior bend so here you need to use some caution.

I found a steady chant of "Please don't break... Please don't break" to be very effective.

 
So I just ran out to the garage to check the boot lid emblems on my BJ7. Both the Austin-Healey script and the 3000 flash are original to the car and neither are curved. The left sides fit tight against the metal while the right sides are a tiny bit away. Writing the concours committee this morning for the next edition of the guidelines to make sure cars with curved emblems get docked points. :devilgrin::jester:
 
HealeyRick said:
So I just ran out to the garage to check the boot lid emblems on my BJ7. Both the Austin-Healey script and the 3000 flash are original to the car and neither are curved. The left sides fit tight against the metal while the right sides are a tiny bit away. Writing the concours committee this morning for the next edition of the guidelines to make sure cars with curved emblems get docked points. :devilgrin::jester:
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To straighten your emblem, reverse steps 1 through 5 of my previous post. :playful:

In all seriousness, when I put my emblem on straight the edges were pretty far away from the metal. Far enough away to look "wrong" and to catch any fabric that they might contact. Concours or not, I think those emblems are better off bent to fit the curve of the trunk lid.
 
Keith_M said:
I found a steady chant of "Please don't break... Please don't break" to be very effective.
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The way things work out for me, as soon as I uttered those words, the next sound I'd hear would be "snap".

Keith_M said:
To straighten your emblem, reverse steps 1 through 5 of my previous post. :playful:

In all seriousness, when I put my emblem on straight the edges were pretty far away from the metal. Far enough away to look "wrong" and to catch any fabric that they might contact. Concours or not, I think those emblems are better off bent to fit the curve of the trunk lid.
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There's always that argument whether concours is supposed to replicate the way an ideal car as it was designed to be built or the one that actually rolled off the assembly line on a Tuesday after a long bank holiday weekend. My guess is if it cost BMC more to put a curve on the emblem than to leave it straight, they went with straight.
 
BigGreen said:
Info on eBay;
Don't be fooled by those that claim these emblems were curved. They were not. Over a period of time some of these emblems may have slowly conformed to the shape of the trunk lid.
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Probably. However, if you insert one pin in its hole and set the keeper then gently press the other pin in to place and set its keeper- the badge will not break. Just do not try to preshape it in your hands as the bending load across the badge wil not ditribute correctly..
 
well i just ordered another one. the one i broke left one end high enough off the trunk surface that it was noticeable. and, i am quite sure that when cleaning the car the the cleaning cloth would have caught on that. too bad the attaching studs are not further apart to better help pull the end closer to the surface! thanks for all the comments!
 
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