[Verdoro 68]

Originally Posted by dataway

Sweet! Very nice.

I bet a bit of clear coat over that and it would last a long time.

Now I'm wanting to screen print things all over the place

After drying overnight, the silkscreen paint seems very durable. I picked at it with my fingernail and it's on there good! You could clear over it, but it may not need it.

Originally Posted by SD455DJ

Here is the original print on my air cleaner and it is slightly fuzzy from the factory. So, they certainly don't need to be crisp edges everywhere to look correct.

Great work!

Dennis

I can make that one. Do you have dimensions for it? The screens I've been experimenting with were eyeballed and a smidge bigger (1-3/16 x 4-1/8) than the reproduction stickers (1-1/8 x 3-5/8. I want to be sure I'm doing these as correctly as I can. I'm also going to pull another screen today with a few mixes of fonts because I think what I have is too bold.

Originally Posted by SD455DJ

1971 455 HO owners (A & F Bodies) all lament the crummy emmisions/tune-up label (sticker) that are wrong from all suppliers. I don't know if there is any copyright infringement to print a few copies, but it sure would be great to have a more accurate choice. The only things that are correct on the repro are the size and colors...lol. Notice that the repop even omits the Pontiac crest above 'Pontiac Motor Divisions' in the top left margine too.

Dennis

I saw your old thread on this as I was looking for emissions decals and pulled the images from it. I can make a small batch of these too.

Originally Posted by Shiny

Thanks for learning and sharing your solution for printing white on a curved surface. I shared some ideas and transfer materials I was messing with for guage graphics in prior threads. The taped-on screen method looks great! I was intrigued by transfer methods to make the screen stencils. The pre-sensitized screens are clearly a good option. Nice work!!

I suspect this is how gauges were done too. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by pre-sensitized screens, but the ready made screens with pre-applied emulsion aren't fine enough for screening on metal and you'll get poor results. Most stuff out there is geared towards t-shirts which can take a coarser thread screen because it soaks in the ink. It's not difficult to stretch and treat a screen, just time consuming. So far, it takes me about a day to make a screen with in between drying time included. I've learned there is also some technique to coating a screen with just the right amount of emulsion.