jackjcc
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Hey guys
I had a sun baked 024 that had extremely faded plastics with some baked in oil stains. I found a thread on using boiled linseed oil and paint thinner to restore the plastic and remove the sun fading. I'm posting my results.
At first I took the top and air filter covers and gave them a wash with degreaser and a tooth brush, and they came out sparkly like that vampire in those vampire movies the girls watch:
Not sure how well that will turn out (I post from my phone) but the little flecks is the light reflecting back. I then took some 180 grit and gave the pieces a wet sanding. This got the oil stained bits cleaned up. The only trouble I had was getting in close on some edges and corners.
Then I mixed up my 60% paint thinner 40% blo and set up. I used two methods and the results were fairly similar. First method I just wiped it on, second method I buffed it in with 0000 steel wool. The stool wool buff jobs seems better than the wipe on method.
Looks good to me and it was a pretty simple process. The cost for the quart sized jugs was about $7 each for the thinner and oil.
Definitely worth it and if you can measure liquid proportions it's easy to do.
I had a sun baked 024 that had extremely faded plastics with some baked in oil stains. I found a thread on using boiled linseed oil and paint thinner to restore the plastic and remove the sun fading. I'm posting my results.
At first I took the top and air filter covers and gave them a wash with degreaser and a tooth brush, and they came out sparkly like that vampire in those vampire movies the girls watch:
Not sure how well that will turn out (I post from my phone) but the little flecks is the light reflecting back. I then took some 180 grit and gave the pieces a wet sanding. This got the oil stained bits cleaned up. The only trouble I had was getting in close on some edges and corners.
Then I mixed up my 60% paint thinner 40% blo and set up. I used two methods and the results were fairly similar. First method I just wiped it on, second method I buffed it in with 0000 steel wool. The stool wool buff jobs seems better than the wipe on method.
Looks good to me and it was a pretty simple process. The cost for the quart sized jugs was about $7 each for the thinner and oil.
Definitely worth it and if you can measure liquid proportions it's easy to do.