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Hi

I have some damaged plastics on my bike. I found a few topics about this already but the way they are damaged vary on each panel so it was hard to know which metod to use on which panel.

Please advice for each picture below



-- Edited by zander on Tuesday 29th of May 2012 01:14:35 PM

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Alright, I see, I'll look further on those blue plastics later

I found some bleaching chlorine in the bathroom though, seem'd to work really well on white plastics:)

 

edit: Think a hairdryer will work aswell on those blue plastics? cuz I don't have a blowtorch at home



-- Edited by zander on Tuesday 29th of May 2012 03:04:16 PM



-- Edited by zander on Tuesday 29th of May 2012 03:17:47 PM

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rear ones T-cut then use white colour magic, if no better wet and dry, normaly i wouldnt recomend it but on white it seems to work well,

it seems your tank pannels are peeling and splitting and fading, always seems to happen on the RE/X's, also use t-cut and blue colour magic on them with

the stress mark can be made better by warming woth a blowtorch in the inside of the pannel, be careful not to melt it!!



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Yep, T-cut works a dream on white plastics used it on my hpires rear fender to remove some scratches and discolouration!



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hairdryer wont be hot enough, i used a chefs/cooking blowtorch LOL



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the only way is YAMAHA DTR wrote:

hairdryer wont be hot enough, i used a chefs/cooking blowtorch LOL


 LOL!!!!



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Just found out about the hairdryer... the booring way...
I guess I have to borrow from someone :P

btw, any idea what to do with the cracks? think glueing will be enough to stop it from cracking any further? :P

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fiber glass maybe for the cracks?? can get small kits off ebay

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i believe the glass fibre will crack too as the plastic is very flexible

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they are like £20 new, or get some second hand ones



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I got some tank scoops if your interested mate? Pm me if you are

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if u want to stop them cracking further, you could drill a small hole at the end of the crack and it should stop it going any further

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found this really awesome thing in my room, called a lighter :D

I melted togather the cracks from the back side of the plastics.
Ofcourse the cracks didn't disappear, but atleast now the cracks wont get any bigger

(drilling holes works too, but it ****s up the look)



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the only way is YAMAHA DTR wrote:

they are like £20 new, or get some second hand ones


 Ok, but they aren't too damaged yet :P

SUPERSTEVE wrote:

I got some tank scoops if your interested mate? Pm me if you are


alright good to know, thanks :)



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