Victor cooler script

[vintage-air]

Guys, in the process right now of restoring my 3 door and found my victor scripts were broken in a couple of places. Went down to a local water jet facility to see if they could cut some out of stainless. They turned out really nice but now I need to mill the recessed area and wanted to know if anyone knew someone that could do this. Here are a few pics. Let me know!

Thanks, jeff

[briandr1]

Any machine shop should be able to mill them looks like it would take alot of time to mill the radius on the edge of the script but the groove in the bottom under the script would be simple. it takes a special tool to cut a radius being it would have to be the degree of the radius for example a 360 degree radius would be a perfect circle the script looks like a 5 to 10  degree radius on the edges.

[bubba]

What material is the original made of? It may be easier to silver solder the other half of the "V" on and rechrome it...

[collecture]

The script is being reproduced:

http://sodajerkworks.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_images.tpl&product_id=357&category_id=16&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=27&vmcchk=1&Itemid=27

[vintage-air]

Yeah, I saw those scripts and thought I would at least try to make a few out of stainless and polish them to a high luster. I need 4 right now and at $70 a piece, I thought I would try this first. I've got about $10 in each one so far. We'll see how much they charge to mill the recess in the script. Hopefully, it wont be too bad. Thanks for all the input guys. Much appreciated!

[mznb1u]

That repop part is listed at 6" wide.  The script on my Victor 4 door is a little over 10" wide.  Did the script vary in size from the 1 door to the 4 door?

It will be interesting to see how your fabrication effort turns out.

  Tim

[collecture]

That repop part is listed at 6" wide.  The script on my Victor 4 door is a little over 10" wide.  Did the script vary in size from the 1 door to the 4 door?

It will be interesting to see how your fabrication effort turns out.

  Tim

My C-14 Victor script is approx. 10" wide too.
Hmmmm....

I need 4 right now and at $70 a piece, I thought I would try this first.

Price comes up as $38.50 each for me.


But if they are only 6" long, I wouldn't want them on my cooler.

[vintage-air]

http://www.sodajerkworks.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_images.tpl&product_id=654&category_id=16&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=27

Here is the bigger one that is the correct size for the C-13 coolers. I guess Victor made smaller counter coolers which had the smaller script. Im sure the new ones being sold look great because SODA WORKS always has great stuff. Just wanted to see what my local Waterjet shop could do. They were even able to cut out the mounting holes. Pretty neat what technology has been able to do.

[collecture]

$70 each....ouch!
Didn't all scripts have pins for mounting or were some screwed on? SJW says without pins on the large script.
On the 6" script, SJW says it goes on the back side of counters. Are they refering to counter tops or counter coolers?

[Eric]

Wow... Nice job so far... didn't they know of a company that could help?... I would think they would need to be placed in a CNC lathe machine to be finished out.... but looking good.

[BrianB]

My last script job that I did involved a "Seeburg" logo from a Teardrop speaker.

I sent it out to have it chrome plated and it ended up fracturing between two letters and was unrepairable. My plater made it right though!

He has a longtime friend of his who does metal casting for a living cast a few "new" Seeburg emblems based off of my original. His attention to detail was awesome! He even got the curviture correct to match the roundness of the grill face. My plater chromed it and sent it to me with no charge due to the initial mishap.

Casting is pretty inexpensive and it's how the originals were typically made.

I would say the hardest thing about finishing your Victor script isn't the machining process itself, it's finding the best way to clamp the peice down to the mill table!

[vintage-air]

Brian, let me know this guys info on the casting. I might try to send him my original so he can make a mold and cast a few pieces. My objective of making them from stainless was to just polish and not have to send out for chrome. I know lead is very inexpensive to buy but melting, pouring and making the mold is the time consuming part not to mention buying all the equipment. Was he pretty reasonable on price?

[BrianB]

I can contact my chrome guy and see what the pricing would have been if it had of been an original, off-the-street job that wasn't a payback for a mistake.

I don't think it was to pricey. I'll make some calls and let you know.