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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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

TE 630 Stains on Gas Tank??

Hokeewaa

Hokeewaa

Husqvarna
I have stains near the gas filler opening that look like spots where gas dripped onto the tank. Various solvents have not removed them. Using gas to darken the area where the stains are to hide them did not work.

Does anyone else have these stains? Any ideas?

Thanks.
 
303 Aerospace protectant. It won't remove them but will probably hide them. I have not had that issue either, but all of the matt-black plastic really looks great with an application of this stuff.

Before and after...

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It sounds like gas additive stains. At the risk of melting the plastic, you could try acetone or MEK, possibly even laquer thinner. Or just WD40 first. Maybe whatever is creating the stain will lift enough to hide it. Seriously, try 303. If you use any of these aggressive chemicals you'd want to re-protect it anyway. WD40 is basically kerosene and pretty mild.

I'm guessing the tank is polyethelene. I'm not always sure which chemicals melt which plastics. It's obviously tough stuff though.

No guarantees! Don't come back and say you melted the finish off your plastics. :busted:

BTW, I would also try SimpleGreen with a nylon brush, even a tooth brush. Scrub it good and rinse. Treat with 303.

One thing I've found for the side covers and tank shrouds is Gel Gloss. That stuff they sell for showers and boats. TR3 Resin Glaze also works really well for cleaning and polishing plastic. Strap lashing marks and trouser marks buff right out.
Novus is another good plastic polish, just don't use the most aggressive polishing grit - No1 or 2.
 
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