Friction burns on olefin glue down

[Mikey P]

my favorite bike shop got burned this weekend when some dufus dragged his locked up rear wheel all the way from the front door to the service station in back, 200 feet or so, 1/4 inch line...


Carpet is less than a year old.


any hero tricks? :?:

 

[Mikey P]

I didn't think so....


just wishin..

 

[Shorty]

What you need is Johnny Lockitt and Stanley. !gotcha!

'cos travel, accom; and meals may be a bit on the high side from the land of the long cloud.

Maybe (alphabetically), Andrews (Steve) or Myers (Harry), might oblige. shiteatinggrin

hey Marty, blow me

 

[John Watson]

No repair, but if it is chared a bit of sandpaper can remove the chared look but the line is still there.

We cleaned a school that had theur class rooms and Library carpeted with nylon. They would move all the desks and chairs into the waxed halls.

They carpeted the hall a few years later, moved all desks and chairs for us to clean the old carpets.

3 days later I got a call, can we come clean all the dark lines out of the new carpets.

It was all marked with chared streaks and not 1 kid had stepped onit yet. I showed them the sandpaper cure and also showed how to speed it up by carefully using a dremil tool.
That was 15 yrs ago Same carpets in the hallways.

 

[Mikey P]

What grit paper?

 

[Ken Snow]

Probably a medium to fine grit and they should also call their insurance cmpany. They may have coverage.

 

[John Watson]

Can't remember that, We would take an assortment. Just don't create more with the friction you cause. Test a few areas. Very time consuming, we always taught their people how to do it and just chged a training fee. This was another tip from Dr Edgar P and the Fiber Cleaning Schools of America.

 

[Jeremy]

400 grit Mike... And take your sweet time. By the way it only works on light burn marks.

 

[Larry Cobb]

Mike;

I have gotten the Dynachem FiberBrite to remove light burns from dragging and cigarettes.

Since it is a reducing agent, it chemically reverses the oxidation.

I sprinkle it on full strength and spray lightly with water.

If it is still there . . .

then you can try the fine grit paper.

The combo will definitely work better.

Take pictures !

Larry

 

[Mikey P]

Wow. Will so.

Is fiber brite sodium metabisulfate?

 

[Larry Cobb]

Mike;

Not info for board publication.

It is sodium metabisulfite.

As long as it is 100%, it will work fine.

Larry

 

[Shawn Forsythe]

From the description of the situation, it is almost inconceivable that you have actual significant "burning" of the fiber so as to yield an oxidation state to reduce. It is wholly composed of olefin fibers which have been permanently distorted due to softening/melting and physical extrusion of the fiber from frictional heat and pressure of the part that was in contact with the yarns (because Olefin has such a low melting point, frictional heat and pressure will distort it and leave it set). The sandpaper "trick" will do two things. First it will remove sheen from the flattened fibers, and will render the rest in a more random alignment, attenuating the directional pile alignment the dragging produced.

 

[Jeremy]

You may also want to make certain that is not just rubber transfer... A little solvent and a white towel may fix it.

 

[dealtimeman]

I've used some of those heavy duty commercial magic erasers , the large ones with moderate success. And what I mean when I say success is, they could live with the result. I don't believe there is a complete fix as the fiber has been truly damaged and thus no way to fix, just make it look better.

 

[sam miller]

You may also want to make certain that is not just rubber transfer... A little solvent and a white towel may fix it.

Thats what I was thinking but Mike probably tried a solvent first I would use Heavy duty soil lifter. Maybe even a little wd40

or drag a few more bikes and create a pattern.

 

[Mikey P]

I haven't tried anything yet, I was just there picking up a bike.


next week

 

[Erik]

I can clean it bud, but the Olefin burn is there for good! thathurts

 

[juniorc82]

If they have some spare carpet you might be able to do a pile graft. That would be expensive and take forever

 

[Studebaker]

Paint....

 

[Lee Stockwell]

I did a claim for Amoco Fibers at Baddour's corporate offices in Memphis that was a drag burn from god knows what being dragged down a hallway.

I scrapped it with a sharpened spoon in my spotting bag, spritzing lightly with lacquer thinner and a white towel to catch the residue.

Put your thumb in the bowl of the spoon to get proper grip on it.

 

[Mikey P]

stopped by today real quick to drop off a bike with disc break issues so I had Davis try some solvent on the line...


nada.

 

[sam miller]

I hope the guy draggin the bike through has insurance!

Stupid Insurance for the peanut head in Your life! hey Marty, blow me

 

[John Buxton]

Just sell em new carpet.

 

[mcatt]

I had this almost exact problem only the carpet was in a garage at a beach house. The kid came skidding in with his weight on the bike and tried everything but could not get it out. Thanks for the sandpaper suggestion and I will use this on our next visit as we clean it every 6months or so.