How should i manufacture a car badge?
How should i manufacture a car badge?
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My boss would like me to create an intricate badge that will be placed on a line of cars he is introducing. The badge is a a national flag that contains the cars name beside it. We will only be making 100 or so and I don't know if it will be cost effective to mold them out of plastic. I considered making it out of two peaces of aluminum. The top peace could have the letters and colored parts of the flag lasered thru and the bottom peace would be painted to act as a contrasting backstop. Do you have any other suggestions on how I can have this made cheaply?





RE: How should i manufacture a car badge?
Make one as you propose, or with sink-EDM and use that to make some rubber molds which in-turn get used to make wax cores.
Or just have 100 cores "printed" via stereo-lithography and use them directly as cores.
RE: How should i manufacture a car badge?
RE: How should i manufacture a car badge?
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Contact someone who makes sports trophies. I have seen some metal badges with logos of the ski club I belong to. They look good. I do not know how they did it.
JHG
RE: How should i manufacture a car badge?
Some kind of laser etching might work.
Or either drawoh or IRstuff suggestions aren't bad.
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RE: How should i manufacture a car badge?
Talk to a color anodizer before taking my advice; they bring some amazing stuff to trade shows.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: How should i manufacture a car badge?
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Cory
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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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I'm not affiliated with Protomold but have used their service.
RE: How should i manufacture a car badge?
Dome it: most label, decal or membrane switch manufacturers make these sort of vanity labels. Basically a printed substrate, your graphics, then a dome of clear elastomer is poured on top. Numerous vehicles, like the Neon, use this method.