Hi, SSS, I didn't realise that Kudos was your company. The link that I clicked on was the banner for Kudos Engraving at the bottom of the page, but it didn't take me anywhere (not sure if it meant to?
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Thanks btw for this fantastic LSR forum, it's doing my head in, the amount of information and experience that is on here in the way of racers and engineers.
I guess I should do an intro, but not very good at that sort of stuff, just hope I don't annoy to many people too much. I'm definitely planning on next years Lake Gardiner event here in Australia if weather permits. My friend Greg has a stack of old 125cc GP stuff left over from his gp race team days, and we figure to start with, the smaller the bikes, the less trouble we will probably get into...lol.
The vin plate is a thin gauge aluminium that will be eventually rolled to suit the frame. Black paint and the bare ally is how they are (should be?) finished. As the CB1100rb is a very rare homologation beast (probably only a few more than 20 in the country) I will have to track down an owner of one of the corresponding forum that will help with the duplication. The numbers could be stamped, but more than likely laser etched.
I guess in some terms that the process would be similar to making a circuit board, where the surface is etched where the paint will stick, the numbers might be a little trickier, but as I mentioned we need to find an example of the original. Some Honda plates look like the numbers are made up of individual dots.
Here is a photo of one of my Bimota plates to give you an idea. Of course what honda produce will be different, but it gives you an idea. Thanks
Any input will be greatly appreciated. Regards.
Ralph.