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Title: Tank badges
Post by: Raymond_Y on January 17, 2020, 02:51:02 PM

Can someone tell me what the difference is between a right hand and left hand tank badge on a 1971 CB500K0?

Many thanks

Raymond

Title: Re: Tank badges
Post by: JamesH on January 17, 2020, 02:56:53 PM

From my experience very little - they are supposedly pre-bent to the form of the tank, but if you're just gentle / careful you can bend them by hand to suit (just be careful no to crack the painted infill).

Title: Re: Tank badges
Post by: Nurse Julie on January 17, 2020, 03:03:52 PM

Pre bent... As James says(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200117/09b2f4b94d0da07b368380d69466f58a.jpg)

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Title: Re: Tank badges
Post by: Nurse Julie on January 17, 2020, 03:05:41 PM

And the pins are in different places as they are handed.
Edit... Saying that, I haven't got a tank to hand to see if when you line the pins up with the holes, to see if the badges actually sit on the tank in the correct position. They probably do though.
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200117/6fab8274eda157049f57dd7044559e6f.jpg)

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Title: Re: Tank badges
Post by: Nurse Julie on January 17, 2020, 03:22:20 PM

Like so(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200117/3c1482e6fd6d43a48fc7d0aa5f31789d.jpg)

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Title: Re: Tank badges
Post by: Raymond_Y on January 17, 2020, 04:01:12 PM

Thanks

Title: Re: Tank badges
Post by: Andrew-S on January 17, 2020, 05:07:05 PM

Not sure if this helps, but it shows the emblem orientation on my CB750 K1 tank:

Title: Re: Tank badges
Post by: Bryanj on January 17, 2020, 06:10:40 PM

For a long time in the 70,s a lot of the big Honda parts suppliers like Fowlers, Padgetts, Bill Head etc only stocked the one part number and used to tell us re shape it to fit

Title: Re: Tank badges
Post by: Green1 on January 17, 2020, 07:00:07 PM

Both my 750's have the same part number Honda badges just bent to sute.

Title: Re: Tank badges
Post by: Andrew-S on January 17, 2020, 11:27:56 PM

Quote from: Green1 on January 17, 2020, 07:00:07 PM

Both my 750's have the same part number Honda badges just bent to sute.

Interesting, DS and the parts book both list them as handed with sequential part numbers. My K1 originals are handed too.

Title: Re: Tank badges
Post by: Raymond_Y on January 18, 2020, 10:12:59 AM

Andrew-S, that was why I asked the question.  I had noted the different numbers, but cannot see any difference between the two I have, other than the the possible difference in curvature.

Title: Re: Tank badges
Post by: davefirestorm on January 18, 2020, 01:01:44 PM

Both my badges 750F have same part number just bent them to shape.What keeps them in place on the tank? Rusty bits of some kind of retainer were on the badge pins,suppose I could just glue them in

Title: Re: Tank badges
Post by: Bryanj on January 18, 2020, 03:09:07 PM

Difference in curvature is the only difference as far as i know