• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Stained White Plastic!?!?

FReQRiDeR

FReQRiDeR

Husqvarna
AA Class
WHAT IN GOD’S NAME STAINED MY PLASTIC!?!?? Bike was left under front of my camper, under cover in Florida for a few months. Plastic is all stained now! I tried WD40, gas, brake cleaner??? Soft scrub, magic eraser to no avail? Haven’t tried bleach yet... Could it be aluminum oxide? Acid rain? Bike was stored outside in California for year or so and never got stained like that. Also under my camper? What is the best cleaner or are my plastics trashed? Looks horrible!
 

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FReQRiDeR said:
WHAT IN GOD’S NAME STAINED MY PLASTIC!?!?? Bike was left under front of my camper, under cover in Florida for a few months. Plastic is all stained now! I tried WD40, gas, brake cleaner??? Soft scrub, magic eraser to no avail? Haven’t tried bleach yet... Could it be aluminum oxide? Acid rain? Bike was stored outside in California for year or so and never got stained like that. Also under my camper? What is the best cleaner or are my plastics trashed? Looks horrible!
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SOLVED! Bleach and Magic Eraser FTW! WoooHooo!
 

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Happy days, I wonder what causes that muck in the 1st place. Perhaps mould or something organic. I see traces of it sometimes on white bits and the magic eraser and spray and wipe deal with the problem before it goes viral like yours did.
 
It's something about the type of plastic used, here's a 80's fender 50/50 side by side pic.
The plastic is slightly porous & the sun, acid rain whatever turns into crud.
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exactly. many plastics are very porous. esp., the cheap containers for poison in the hardware store. if it is shinny it is leaking through the container. corn starch, clay, potatoes all kinds of things that are cheaper than plastic resins are used to 'extend' production and lower costs.
 
The only time i saw this was in a farmer shed in the Netherlands were a Yamaha YZ125 was stored for years. I talk 6 or 7 years It was dust burned in by the sun. Replace it was the only thing we could do. But i cant say if the circumstances are the same, and if the plastics of today are still te same as what Yamaha used in a 1984 machine. Oddly, not the tank, which was easy to clean like you clean the bike as usual. Also the red plastiek like the radiator cover? (how is that called?) and the seat cover were easy to clean. It only affected the white plastiek.
 
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