• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Flame Polish

duggoey

duggoey

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No hits in the cleaning/preserving plastic panels thread.

Does anyone know about the 'flame polish' method for plastics? Or is this a piss take in line with 'you can buy new Powerbands at K-mart'?
 
I know if, for example, you bend up your plastics and get the white marks in your blue plastics you can use an electric heat gun (1500w hair dryer) and get them hot just to the point of melting the color will come back and they will get their shine back. It won't take out the scratches.
 
Work has a few heat guns, they make more sense than a torch, ive used them to bend pvc. But the other guy mentioned a torch to get the gloss back. Is there method in that madness, i.e. a point at which it can slightly melt to get the gloss back and take out the scratches?
 
As you heat it the surface will get shiny and the color will return, you will see when you get started, it's pretty easy to do. You can go over it again after it cools off to get even better results.
 
shawbagga said:
^no capiche?
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The people who go to Kmart for a new powerband really exist. They live near me. They drive an old clapped out 4×4 with a few spare ones in the front yard with grass growing around them. They also have domestics that need the police to resolve. They also think it is appropriate to ride their pit bike in the public park and make burms around the trees.
 
Oh, and BTW, that was not a joke post about the vaseline. I used it on my really old clapped out KLR 250 before I sold it. Worked great.
 
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