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right now on auto restomod Jeff tackles he plays the fire makes Josh plastics to
spit up your truck or classic car
ok now i want to show you a method for hopefully putting the vinyl graining
back in here that's a little unorthodox what I've got here underneath our panel
is the vinyl repair kit from the guys at Eastwood now we are going to use one of
the cards out of here to read grain are plastic but we're also going to do down
the road we're going to try to use this kit to repair the seat in our 69
Fairlane the front seat has a hole in it from probably something being put in the
back of the wagon and it's sliding forward and knocking center out of the
back of the seats it's got a nice rip we're going to repair it with this now
another product
each one has come out with is this one is called plastic resurfacer this is
good for bumpers and things like that like we showed you a little earlier with
the heat process this is actually a chemical process to do pretty much the
same thing we're also going to show you how this works on our trim panel as well
with a little bit of a test out with it and see how we like it
from what I understand the stuff actually works pretty good on your newer
cars for those areas that we've gone in and done heat process with this is just
a way to do it chemically rather than using the heat gun so what I'm going to
do them to pull all this stuff out of the way and I'm gonna go in and show you
how to use the graining cards hopefully get some grain back in these places
where you got chunks taken out of the plastic on your trim pieces inside your
car going to what I'm starting to do here I absolutely recommend you get the
vinyl repair kit from eastwood because of these graining card is going to make
your job a lot easier never gonna be able to pull the grain out of anything
else that I've been able to come up with to make this work
so what I'm going to do now i'm going to put a glove on because this is going to
be very hot work that paper is going to transfer all the heat
through it once i get these areas hot what you want to do is we'll see i've
got an area here that is really glossy you're going to want to eat that area up
till it gets wet looking like that
play the card on it roll around on a little bit pull it back it grain some
but we're going to go into a little harder
now sometimes what can happen when you're trying to do this grinding
workers you can pick up the old vinyl and that comes from the fact that that
upper surface is really pretty loose but you can see the center section of this
why didn't hear it's actually put a grain in there and it's pretty close to
looking like your original now what I'm going to do is I'm going to go in and
continue to work this area using my card but I'm gonna get these chips that are
on your off the car because if you don't they'll just put a different impression
in there and you have an odd-looking spot in your vinyl this is only going to
be good for cleaning up small areas to you're not going to want to try to
recreate an entire panel with this because it's just not gonna work
it's looking like what you probably want to do is to leave it on there and let it
cool in position then pull it up you know i think in some cases with the
polypropylene plastic being the way it is it's still going to pull that upper
layer all so I'm going to keep working this and then i'm going to show you how
this product the plastic resurfacer works and will kind of closed it out
with that one
ok here's the trim panel after we've used the plastic resurfacer from
eastwood on it i will say that it does a really nice job of solidifying the
plastic and making it won't granola it's really not going to be good for and it's
not intended to fill in any places where the plastic is scratched off that's just
not going to happen it might be a better idea to go and use the heat gun to take
these areas like we've done on here it heat them and we set the plastic as it
were and put a little bit of grain and because otherwise I think it's probably
going to be pretty noticeable especially in lighter color plastics that you've
got this done but as i said this product is really good for taking this plastic
and solidifying it so it won't granola up in your finger
whenever you go to put it back in the car and also actually kinda like the
color it's a little duller than some of the other stuff
it looks a little more like the original plastics on the car so I like this
product and i also like being able to use the little pieces of paper like this
that we got with the vinyl repair kit so that's our show for this week looks now
come back and watch next time on auto restomod have a great week folks
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