At 03:29 PM 23/11/2007 -0800, Waldo Magnuson wrote:
> Nick March (France), I agree with you. I have a friend who looked
>at my Italian bike and then at the badge and said: "That badge is worth
>$80". He had little regard for the rest of the bike.
Yeah, it's an outrage that a badge today would go for more than the bike
sold for originally. I had been looking for a Claud Butler headbadge after
I acquired a '51 Allrounder frame. Apparently these show up on eBay at
least a couple of times a year, and since they were apparently used over a
couple of decades after Clauds were no longer made by Claud Butler, one
would think there would have been a lot of expendable donor bikes. However,
when a list member alerted me to a badge on eBay, I watched it escalate
over $50. No thanks. Fortunately, my frame shows no evidence of any rivet
holes, so I'll make do with a decal, sonce a badge would not even be correct.
>Any thoughts
>out there regarding badge removal before painting?
You mean you removed one, doing no harm, and still aren't sure if you went about it the right way? I would either carefully dremel off the rivet heads, or centre punch them and drill them using progressively larger bits until they fell off. As for re-attaching the badge, there are tiny pop rivets, but they look a bit tacky and definitely not period correct. H. Lloyd's has copper and brass headbadge rivets, which should be the right type.
John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada