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Post by peascreek on Dec 16, 2017 15:48:30 GMT -5
I've never tried it, but some use a heat gun to get black plastics to look good again. If they'll be tossed and replaced if nothing else works, seems like you wouldn't lose anything by trying. www.google.com/search?q=restore+plastic+heat+gunI could see that going horribly wrong for me and turning my scooter into a Dali print... ")
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Post by peascreek on Dec 15, 2017 23:13:25 GMT -5
any products like that, vinyl treatments etc around here would become covered with road dust in the summer and grain dust in the fall ") like my wife's dash who still hasn't figured it out...
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Post by peascreek on Dec 15, 2017 16:49:50 GMT -5
I had thought about using bumper paint on the unpainted plastics, the floor is new pretty much, everything else was fairly faded and oxidized, now I think I'm going to go ahead and just replace them
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Post by peascreek on Dec 14, 2017 22:51:51 GMT -5
Not sure how well you can discern it from the photo, but the panel on the left is the satin, the panel on the right is the semi-gloss. The satin lays down better too.
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Post by peascreek on Dec 14, 2017 17:44:38 GMT -5
So today, after staring at things, I pretty much decided the semi-gloss black had too much gloss, so I went to my favorite hardware store and came back with Rustoleum "Canyon Black" in satin, after a few test sprays, I'm happy with it, definitely black and has a nice sheen with fairly diffuse reflection whereas with the satin black you can discern objects reflected.
So, we'll be pulling everything off, wet sanding with 1000 and giving her a couple coats of the satin. However, prior to that, I'm going to rig up some kind of spray tent to control the dust for the best finish, and I'm considering building an "oven" with a dozen light bulbs for heat to bake them.
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Post by peascreek on Dec 13, 2017 19:52:56 GMT -5
My guess would be valves, and they probably need adjusted anyway.
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Post by peascreek on Dec 11, 2017 17:04:48 GMT -5
went with black on the center trim, might even replace it with new trim, but I like it better black either way
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Post by peascreek on Dec 10, 2017 21:55:10 GMT -5
I used all the scrap metal on my haul truck...
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Post by peascreek on Dec 10, 2017 1:15:24 GMT -5
Not much chance of that happening with this bike, I'm looking for a 150 chuckus cheap for that role ")
Although now that I'm virtually in extended staring mode, I am going to pull that red center console piece and turn it black, it's just too much now that it's on the bike especially when I add the red side vents. I am however considering a red seat, the rear body is a lot of black even with the luggage rack red, thinking it would actually be the perfect touch, but, not sure what the cost of a re-cover would be locally, and I can;t seem to find much on the net in the lines of those spray can dyes, they say leather, vinyl and fabric but...
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Post by peascreek on Dec 9, 2017 22:35:10 GMT -5
Had a Mazda MX6 I had to rig with a switch like that temporarily, trouble was had no way to mount it so it hung loose from jumpers and required two hands to actually operate ")
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Post by peascreek on Dec 8, 2017 18:16:37 GMT -5
Parts are starting to find their way home as much as possible. I'm going to pull the valve cover and recheck the clearances and install a new plug but that's it until after Christmas.
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Post by peascreek on Dec 7, 2017 0:43:12 GMT -5
Living in Iowa, one of the biggest farm welfare states in the country, I can safely say ya'll getting screwed 3 way from Sunday from fuel to food.
But we can still get pure gas up to 91 fairly easily because the boys with the power toys have just as much clout in Iowa. And most people in Iowa outside of the metro areas know ethanol just plain sucks.
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Post by peascreek on Dec 7, 2017 0:37:11 GMT -5
I once changed a set of rear drum brakes on a 1963 Comet in -2 temps, I cycled gloves in and out of the car on top of the defroster vent about every 5 minutes and I still got frost bite on my left hand.
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Post by peascreek on Dec 6, 2017 2:28:50 GMT -5
So I got three coats on the lights, baked at 200 degrees for a half hour, came out very nice as far as I'm concerned. For now, I'll wire them up with both filaments together, be a simple matter even after installation to swap out the bulb for whatever, they mount to an adapter on the handle bar cover, metal bracket that bolts to the plastic. The integral headlights in the front cover didn't pass DOT muster, the bracket and over priced retro style lights was their answer.
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Post by peascreek on Dec 5, 2017 22:23:01 GMT -5
had the same problem with the cheapo lights on my old 50cc, it had BA15 standard base, non-standard bulb, I found them online by the 10 pack and salaged everyone I could from old parts scoots.
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