Beautiful job. It's funny to me how times changes opinions, as I hated this paint job for many years. But for some reason, now I like it!

OK Jim, thank you for sending those, that was an interesting thing to experiment on. For those of you playing at home, Jim sent me two mirrors from a Suzuki Gamma, not quite unobtanium, but scarce. They looked like 30+ year old plastic mirrors sometimes do: faded, crusty in spots, etc.





I ran some tests first using a set of old Napoleon mirrors from my hoard, played around with a few techniques, arrived at a good gentle process that would peel off the cruddy stuff without screwing up the surface or obliterating the lettering (not present on the Suzuki mirrors). The "done" mirror of my Napoleons is to the right.



Masked Jim's lenses and the threads...



Ran them through the blaster, then a treatment of peanut oil (really!)





...and tomorrow they will be on their way back home to Jim.



Conclusion?

This works well, I'd say these are a solid B+. Tons better for sure. Using the vapor blaster gently I can resurface the plastic and remove the greyish oxidization and crud effectively without distorting or changing the texture if I work slowly and carefully.

It still needs some type of dressing when finished. I used peanut oil because I think it's the best, many guys love Mother's Back to Black.

I think these are also a candidate for a light broiling with a heat gun to flash the dyes and plasticizers and restore the black color that way, but I wasn't feeling like I ought to use that particular technique with these .

I'll probably do this when I need to. It's a good alternative when paint isn't going to do enough with the crud. Thanks for the suggestion Jim, and look for these in your mailbox in a few days.

Best,

Nils

your RG Mirrors are japan market only better looking than wordline ones