Re: RESTORING VINYL

[nj-boatbuilder57]

My buddy didn’t have much to offer. Designing new plastics that last….that’s where the research is. Restoring old plastics…not so much. Once the plasticizers break down, he says there’s not much that can be done. Warming helps, and sometimes mink oil helps. But, he said that for the most part when old plastics go bad, there’s no real solution or any sort of "chemical restoration".

Not what I wanted to hear him say, but he’s a damn fine organic chemist, so I tend to believe what he tells me.