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Playart, with added corrosion
Topic Started: Mar 23 2008, 11:01 AM (324 Views)
mookie427
I like this guys lack of style
one of the only cars in my collection to be suffering corrosion :(

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Swifty
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
Nice color for that car! :thumbup: Too bad it's corroded. :(

In that one's case, you can always use it in a banger's yard diorama, as a 'future project' car. ;) I have a Playart Eldorado in rough shape (and missing the windows) that I consider the same type of car. Too nice to banger, but too rough to be a regular car...
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Mr.Bowtie
I have often thought why do some cars seem to be more liable to corrode. I have one of those gold foily HW t-Birds and the base is covered in Corrosion, for years it just in a tub with 100's of other cars and they didn't corrode. Why do some corrode and others don't,

Any chemists amongst us?

Any theories from the laymen?

Any unsubstantiated rumours?

:wacko:
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
One possibility is that it was one time stored in a more humid environment than the cars around it.

Another possibility is that there are impurities in the diecast metal used to make the car. Some brands are especially known for metal fatigue (this is when the diecast car will just crumble to pieces, sometimes still in the blister!) which is also caused by impurities in the metal: Racing Champions and Mini-Dinky to name two. That's one of the things I was most scared of when RC2 took over JL was metal fatigue. Fortunately that has not been an issue with JLs even after the takeover.
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Yeah, I have thought about that too, impurities in the metal, this being a HW, and i am sure I have other issues from the same time frame, and they all seem to be OK, And for years the rest of the collection has been just stored in a plastic tote in Chris's bedroom or down in the rec room, basically no difference then several hundred other HW's and MB's and whatever.

I should go find the T-Bird again and take some pics, I really don't think this car has ever been outside either. We have some ones that spent a year or so out in the sandbox or in the garden shed,, kinda out in the elements and sure they a re sand boxed to death, and have virtually no paint on them, but very little corrosion.
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mookie427
I like this guys lack of style
Swifty
Mar 24 2008, 05:04 AM
One possibility is that it was one time stored in a more humid environment than the cars around it.

well thats certainly a possibility with me Mercedes as it did come from Dubai :lol:

I think I must've recieved models from all 4 corners of the globe now :o
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
Wow! I've gotten cars from all around the globe, but none from the Middle East!
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Mar 24 2008, 03:33 AM
Wow! I've gotten cars from all around the globe, but none from the Middle East!

Know any service personnel Swifty, maybe one of them may be able to pick up a diecast or 2 for you over in Irag, or Saudi Arabia. My sister in law was in Dubai during the 1st Iraq war, I wish I had thought of it then, she sent plushie camels back home for the kids and some Dubai stamps and coasters for my wife and I.

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What if you disassembled it, took a wire brush to the base, and the body, brushed off all the corrosion, dipped the base in a clear laquer, Varathane or something similiar, a shot coats of primer, and a couple of shot coats of blue laquer, and a final shot coat of laquer to seal it all in, maybe she'd be good as new. Oh new shoes if necessary although from the pics they don't look to bad. Put her back together and voila, one little Mideastern Mercedes fit for a sultan.

IMHO she is too much of a classic to banger or become a derelict given her history and birth.

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