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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: Jt on August 27, 2007, 10:53 AM
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right then..have bought a white kashi aero off ebay recently..tis yelowed and for the majority of its life has worn a powerglide sticker on it...obviously leaving a perfectly white sticker mark in the middle of yellowness..
have left it in a bucket of bleach over night and its not done a great deal to be honest...
whats the best course of action with a white seat to get it back to white?
worst case i have a powerglide sticker to go cover the colour difference, but i'de rather get it back to its former glory.
advice please!
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dye it jt, im sure there is a thread somewhere giving instructions.
most of the black aero seats you see on ebay have been dyed
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Jon, if you are able to get some sun where you live ::), leave it in the sun for a few weeks, turning sides from time to time.
It's a slow and very harmless tip I used on one of mine, worked a treat !!
It's bright white now, without any damage to sticker or gold lettering.
Here's what it looked like when I got it, NOS and badly yellowed :
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/s192/2xchevron/Kashiwhite-yellowed.jpg)
Amongst sisters ("saddle" is female in French ;)):
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/s192/2xchevron/Seatss.jpg)
After the sun treatment (just picked another one, used and lightly yellowed this time)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/s192/2xchevron/Kashiwhite.jpg)
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mon duie ( SP)
LOL
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Dieu, mate, it's "dieu" :LolLolLolLol:
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dye it jt, im sure there is a thread somewhere giving instructions.
most of the black aero seats you see on ebay have been dyed
dye it? what, white?
have several black kashi's....need a good white one!!
doble chev...nice idea but i live is salford....
would a sunbed/lamp do it?
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would a sunbed/lamp do it?
Might do...
I used real sun for myself ::)
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what about if i coat it with bleach and then stick it under a sunbed.....
got to be worth a punt!
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dye it jt, im sure there is a thread somewhere giving instructions.
most of the black aero seats you see on ebay have been dyed
dye it? what, white?
yeah white
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Stick with the bleach, Asda super duper cheap runny bleach, whack the seat and bleach in a bucket., leave it for a few days or a week and when you check it again it'll be minty snowy white.
Mont Blanc
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I left a skyway hot seat in bleach and the rails went very rusty. I'm presuming that'd happen with the Kashimax. Nice seat collection btw Arnaud, I'll show you mine one day, I do love a good seat stash :daumenhoch:
ps If you ever want to sell a white kashi.......
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try the bleach again but leave it a few days intead of over night. I've bleached a few white tuffs and it took a few days
Mon ty Python
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try the bleach again but leave it a few days intead of over night. I've bleached a few white tuffs and it took a few days
Mon ty Python
coolio...one set of your decals are going on this so it needs to be right!!
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Put some grease all over the rails if you want to keep them nice.
What a nasty job this is gonna be, bleach, grease,.... ;)
Too bad you have no sun mate, woud be easier :2funny:
Worth a try, tough, I never can get enough of some Kashi brought bak to life!
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i'm hoping 2 days will sort it....and not fook up the rail too much....
its in now so we will see...
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keep it in for a week with some proper bleach not that from the gaypak for ten bob .Make sure its completly covered and leave it ......if that dont work i will trade ya for a red un ;)
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right the...fooking catastrophy....
ta for all the (fooking shit) advice, apart from Mark J and double chevron.
the seat is now completely and i mean completely fooked.
24 hrs in, the rails are corroded to the point they have craters in them, and the seat is now a light rust colour, streaky and fooked. the kashi label on the back has peeled off also....
think its going straight in the bin.
DO NOT PUT WHITE SEATS IN BLEACH AND LEAVE THEM UNLESS ITS JUST THE PLASTIC AND NOTHING ELSE.
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or cover the rails in grease......
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:-\ Jon, please bin it somewhere near my place...
Maybe a good candidate for a Dylon dye then ?
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right the...fooking catastrophy....
ta for all the (fooking shit) advice, apart from Mark J and double chevron.
the seat is now completely and i mean completely fooked.
24 hrs in, the rails are corroded to the point they have craters in them, and the seat is now a light rust colour, streaky and fooked. the kashi label on the back has peeled off also....
think its going straight in the bin.
DO NOT PUT WHITE SEATS IN BLEACH AND LEAVE THEM UNLESS ITS JUST THE PLASTIC AND NOTHING ELSE.
gutted for yer dude , try the grease bit n re dip got to be woth a try got nothing to lose
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dylons cool, but the rails are fooked.....
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did you grease the rails???
when i did my tuffs i caked the hubs with loads and kept re applying
YOU NEED LOADS OF GREASE!!!!!!!!!
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MINT!!!!!!! TTIUWP :LolLolLolLol:
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bring it to me, if its fooked, I cant make it worse ( or can I :LolLolLolLol: )
:daumenhoch:
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he tried to dye it black and fooked it more :LolLolLolLol: and binned it :idiot2:
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couldnt be more of a fook up..so the kashimax aero is in the bin...
cos its fooked...and i give less of a fook than that...
RAD or what!
ta to craig for the inspiration....top perving in swinton in any case...
GFC till i die.
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Definatley alcohol fueled :LolLolLolLol:
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i'm playing it cool mate..inside i'm on fooking fire....