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About LinkBacksHere's something sort of silly I stumbled across by accident, but it might help others so here it is.
The light bar on our rig is about 15 years old... same age as the rig. We do a great job of keeping the paint shiny, but the plastic lens on the light bar was really "cloudy." You know, that hazy, semi-opaque look that plastic gets when it's been exposed for 15 years to UV rays, soap residue, bug guts and road grime.... You get it.
Anyway, if you clean it off with a good all purpose cleaner and then WAX it, with any old cheap liquid car wax, the result will amaze you! I did it to all the rigs in my station, and the result was astounding. It actually looks like we bought brand new light bars!
The biggest benefit I can see, besides making the rig look much more "taken care of," is that the actual light output is increased a good bit. Hey, anything to make Code-3 travel a bit safer for everyone, right?
Give it a try and tell me what ya think!
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Thread: Shine them light bars up!
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03-10-2003, 12:29 PM #1Senior Member
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Shine them light bars up!
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1) Cook at 350...
2) Pump at 150...
3) When in doubt, isolate and deny entry...
4) When in trouble, claim lack of adult supervision.
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03-18-2003, 11:50 AM #2Junior Member
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I've done the same thing many times on our rigs. I agree, it's amazing how they look when you are done. McGuires makes a plastic cleaner and a plastic polish. I've found that works much better than wax.
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03-27-2003, 12:10 PM #3Forum Member
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GREAT POST... I'M GOING TO TRY THAT ON MY RIG
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03-28-2003, 03:56 PM #4Senior Member
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what we would do is clean the whole rig, wax the whole rig with Mothers Wax. Mother's Wax does wonders to light bars. we have a 1987 Rescue and the lightbars look like new
Rob aka Squinty
The Fighting Seventy-Third
Westville Fire Department
Gloucester County
New Jersey
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04-06-2003, 09:57 PM #5Junior Member
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I use Blue Magic metal polish on ours and the plastic headlites of my POV. Works great.
Station 303 Burlington TWP FD
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04-09-2003, 04:54 PM #6MembersZone Subscriber
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I'm not a fire fighter, but I clean and wax the lightbar on my patrol car every 3 months, or when I take it in for it's regular PM.
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04-14-2003, 05:42 AM #7Forum Member
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How about getting hard water off of diamond plate?
Tried lots of stuff that doesn't seem to workProud to be IACOJ Illinois Chapter--Deemed "Crustworthy" Jan, 2003
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04-16-2003, 05:29 PM #8Senior Member
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MikeF25-
Did you try (i think its called) Mothers Diamond Plate Cleaner. Shines Dimaond plate like new. It works Great
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you wanna go to the tire care sectionRob aka Squinty
The Fighting Seventy-Third
Westville Fire Department
Gloucester County
New Jersey
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04-17-2003, 05:37 PM #9Senior Member
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And I thought I was the only one ate up enough to regularly wash my lightbar! Glad to see I am not alone.
IACOJ Military Division
NM Office
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