Ok, I painted a few of the pieces this afternoon. A couple have minor runs that will need to be sanded out and the part resprayed. This is an example of the completed pieces. I think it came out great. Sure hope it lasts.
anyone have success with gray to black plastic restoration?
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mikesim
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Cliff, they look excellent! Much better than mine, but mine were pretty weathered.
Mike
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Environmental regulations... starting with the water based colors in '96 and so on...
JQL
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ACF50 does the trick so I'm told. Have yet to try it.
I have one "dose" left of the only product that ever worked properly - it's no longer available and hasn't been for about 10 years. So no point telling you about it
I have one "dose" left of the only product that ever worked properly - it's no longer available and hasn't been for about 10 years. So no point telling you about it
Fieroguy
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I had high hopes for the new breed of ceramic trim restore products. Worked great on everything I threw at it... until I tried it on the NT. Sadly, it just turned the parts into a somewhat shinier faded and scratched grey. Sigh.
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Poor choice of materials, my bike spends a lot of time in a south facing garage with the garage door open under the intense New Mexico sun, parts of the black plastic were severely faded while others were not affected at all.
I painted the faded pieces a year ago with a for plastic paint and they still look good.