Lets se the tecate tanks. My tanks are almost teal with no white marks at all. I usually use a heat gun to remove the white marks and faded plastic. Not sure if this will bring out my tanks or not. Pretty bad looking.
Lets se the tecate tanks. My tanks are almost teal with no white marks at all. I usually use a heat gun to remove the white marks and faded plastic. Not sure if this will bring out my tanks or not. Pretty bad looking.
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OK well gave this method another shot.
I had a Short Track tank laying around that was faded badly and had some decent gouges in it.
I had to wetsand this tank from 400 grit to 1000 grit, and then I hit it with the mothers polish.
You can still see some of the remains of the deep gouges, but you really have to look for them.
I need to do a final polish job on this, but I will wait till I get it mounted.That scratch is just a finger nail mark that I made while taking the photo. It wiped right off.
Pics are in order from start to finish.
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You can try it, but it seems like the tecate tanks are made out of a different type of plastic than the Honda's. If you do, let us know the results!
wd40 work great too with less srcubing
You have that tank looking pretty good. I have been trying to perfect the method of polishing ATV plastic. I have a thread on this and it works great on white plastic and very well with the red. Any imperfections will show up on red plastic such as swirls . I am now in the process of fixing that problem I am sure. The solution I think is on the last step after wet sanding and buffing. It is called a "White Rouge" or maybe the "BLUE ROUGE". This product supposebly makes plastic look like glass and removes all swirls. I can make any atv plastic shine but I had a small problem with the red. I polished a 1985 ATC350X front fender, it turned out very nice and shiny but had some very fine swirls left, I beleive the blue or white rouge will make it perfect,like NOS. When I am done perfecting all the steps I will post this and have billy help me put this in the technical section of 3WW. "Below are the pictures of the 1985 350X fender I polished very close to NOS. I cannot even pick up the super fine and I mean super fine swirls on camera,there was not any kind of compound used. It turned out great for a rider and I beleive the ROUGE will make it perfect." Note picture number five is before,very bad shape and the fourth picture I had not finished sanding and the corner was scuffed,the others are the finished product.
Last edited by honda200x1987; 02-25-2010 at 09:31 PM.
haha, Glamy beat me to it. I was just recomending him here, LOL!
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1984 ATC70
I just did a restore on a plastic tank that had smoke damage.
Will post the pics before and after and let you know what I use.
Billys method looks good !! Nice and easy too.
Kewl, let's see!
My '86 350x has a white clarke plastic tank on it that is a little yellowed. No oxidation or even scratches, just is a little yellowed. Will this method take the yellow out, or does anyone know how to? I really hate having nice white fenders and a yellow tank, but I can't bring myself to buy a new one when mine works fine.
'86 350x
'05 sportsman 500 (the couch)
does anyone know if this method will work on my 1980 tri moti 125 fenders and plastic?
Probably not by itself. Those yamaha fenders like need to be scraped first most of the time to get back down to good plastic. After thats done you could probably try the mothers trick to get it back to a high shine
I do know all Honda plastic tanks are made of polyproylene, a plastic can can be polished and is very durable. Clark tanks should be the same material but you would have to research that. check out my link .."More pictures of the fender I restored" This may help http://www.3wheelerworld.com/showthr...der-I-restored
Exactly what polish did you use to get out the fine swirls/scratches?
Last edited by honda200x1987; 11-23-2011 at 12:45 PM.