Dusting my TTBP by Dishwasher (Image Heavy)

Crosshair · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:59 pm

A few weeks ago I finally was able to locate a nearly complete Transportable Tactical Battle Platform from a nearby guy. It was in great shape, but it definitely need some cleaning.

I think it's a pill bug? Eeee....

Yep, that's a dead spider.

Anyways, I'd been wanting to try out ZombieGuide's dusting by dishwasher technique. I read joemichaels70's JCWiki entry for doing it, and tested it out on a MMS that I bought the same day from a different dealer.

Acck.

Anyways, the MMS turned out pretty good, so I loaded up the dish washer with the TTBP parts and crossed my fingers.

About 45 minutes later here's what we had.

Everything came out very nice looking, but the dreaded "whitening of the stickers" that Joe talks about in the Wiki did happen.

Still, a minor concern for how nice it looks now.

I also wiped the MMS down with some Advanced Auto parts protectant wipes like Darko talks about in this JCWiki entry and it looks fantastic for a 25 year old toy.

I'm probably going to try using the Bestine trick that ZombieGuide talks about here...hopefully that will remove some of the white around the stickers. If that doesn't work I might look into getting some reproduction stickers for it. And after that I'm going to look into restoring the windshield around the Comm center of the Platform. It's really scratched up, but hopefully ZombieGuide's video will get me started.

JBYRDD · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:12 pm

What kind of diswasher cleaning detergent do you use ?

Crosshair · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:19 pm

Just the water and steam that the dishwasher produces is enough to lift off the grime and dirt. I wouldn't recommend using any detergent, might have some unforeseen effects on the plastic.

joemichaels70 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:42 pm

glad you had a good experience with it, crosshairs!

it looks like it worked pretty well for you!

LobsterOverlord · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

The detergent won't do much to the plastic, but it will KILL the stickers, and leave a horrible residue on top of them.

John M>

ZombieGuide · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:21 am

aye, never use soap!

you may want to use some bestine to remove the stickers and see about tracking down a replacement set of stickers from 334th joe co. or that new joe decal site.

Crosshair · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:21 am

ZombieGuide wrote:

aye, never use soap!

you may want to use some bestine to remove the stickers and see about tracking down a replacement set of stickers from 334th joe co. or that new joe decal site.

That's the plan, but I'm having trouble finding anyone that does TTBP stickers. J. Ruben on yojoe.com used to do repro stickers for it, but I'm not sure if he still does.

roguetiger · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:19 pm

Crosshair wrote:

ZombieGuide wrote:

aye, never use soap!

you may want to use some bestine to remove the stickers and see about tracking down a replacement set of stickers from 334th joe co. or that new joe decal site.

That's the plan, but I'm having trouble finding anyone that does TTBP stickers. J. Ruben on yojoe.com used to do repro stickers for it, but I'm not sure if he still does.

http://www.cobrastickers.com/index.php? ... contact_us :shifty:

I'm the one who actually suggested thier Cobra Air Force stickers and they did them. So I don't see why they wouldn't be able to do the TTBP if someone had one for them to do.

Crosshair · **Posted:** Wed Dec 30, 2009 10:32 pm

roguetiger wrote:

http://www.cobrastickers.com/index.php?main_page=contact_us :shifty:

I'm the one who actually suggested thier Cobra Air Force stickers and they did them. So I don't see why they wouldn't be able to do the TTBP if someone had one for them to do.

Sent them a message, thanks for the heads up!

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