I made custom Harley Davidson tank badges using a cell phone charger

I designed and made my Harley Davidson tank badges, air filter ring and timing cover using an electro-stripping process, from stuff laying around the house. All that is needed is a voltage source, in this case a cell phone charger, CuSo4 and table Salt, a toner printer with the design printed in mirror on a transparency and a home made electro-stripping bath. Total cost of the project was practically nothing...

[@davesleyer9393]

I would try this if I wasn’t afraid of blowing my trailer up. I learned a thing or two watching this though 🤙

[@Lukers_tinkering]

Thanks! The amount of hydrogen created is minimal, so it's relatively safe. Why not give it a bash? Let me know if you do. Would love to see someone else's results.

[@davesleyer9393]

@@Lukers_tinkering I might try I have plenty of scrap aluminum

[@headstocktailstock]

Excellent Luker, I've been making miniature nameplates for my model engines for a lot of yrs now out of brass originally using Letraset & ferric chloride then as photocopiers became available I made an acetate & used spray-on positive resist & a ultraviolet light box, all worked but not always & time consuming, I will try your method it looks really good [I do like roadside/skip freebies] hehe
Graham.

[@Lukers_tinkering]

Hey Graham, good to hear from you. Thanks for the comment! I've used this method for all my nameplates aswell, it works well. It is also time consuming, but the transparency and toner printer is cheaper than the electronic resist, and you don't need to work with acids. My article in Model Engineer a few years back describing the process will have more information, I can did up the issue number if you like?

[@headstocktailstock]

@@Lukers_tinkering Yes please, I must have missed it, I always enjoy your articles even though I might not build them there's always something to learn from them, yes the electronic resist is expensive, I was at my daughters in Perth for a few months & we went to Busselton, & I was thinking of you & of course I had to have my picture taken along side Ballarat!! & watched the nice video.
Graham.

[@Lukers_tinkering]

@@headstocktailstock It was in Model Engineering;225:4650, this article gives a little more detail. I have changed the electrolyte since then, you'll notice in the video I used CuSo4 and salt for general and CuSo4 and NaOH for Aluminium. Ah; that little loco is still my favourite, and the kiddies love it because its so small and it pulls big old me around...

[@headstocktailstock]

@@Lukers_tinkering Thanks for that Luker.it's great pulling the children round the biggest kid is on the front driving!! hehe
Graham.

[@shaneleach9803]

Do you sell those tank badges?

[@Lukers_tinkering]

Sorry Shane, no, I don't. But why not make your own? If I were to do a custom set, I would do something unique based on the bike and rider, not the same as mine.