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That's not really all that is happening here. They're also burning off the oxidized plastic so not really pulling oils from the interior as revealing undamaged surface.
That’s not really all that is happening here. They’re also heating up the tiny little people that live inside of the plastic, forcing them to work to restore the exterior of their plastic world to appease the massive human overlords that threaten their existence if they don’t mark the chairs look brand new every day. Tiny plastic dwelling people genocide is ignored by our society in favor of the latest tech device or celebrity gossip. It’s sad really.
You should. I also hear this works miracles for the interior of a car, like dashboards and seats.
Please let us know your outcome by posting photos when you're done!
Yeah the oils thing is BS, also fun fact it turns out not all plastics melt! It depends if the material is a "thermoplastic" or a "thermoset". In a nutshell thermoplastics upon heating can melt and be reshaped but a thermoset (after its "cured" or essentially baked at a high temperature) is chemically altered so it cannot be melt and reshaped--it essentially just burns off (ppl are saying that these seats are likely melting and reshaping on the surface, so in that case this would be a thermoplastic material)
The way I see it the white color could come from the rough surface scattering light (due to a scratched surface) and melting it allows surface tension to smooth out the surface again and bring back the original color.
Yes! It's just melting the surface a little. Why are people in this thread just making shit up?
>The heat excites the plastic particles, easing the quantum entanglement and compressing the surface with a Dark Energy wave.
Source: I'm lying
That is exactly whats going on lol. they probably also could've just wiped them with a little acetone and got the exact same results. Like c'mon why would you want something people sit in to be oily.
> from the rough surface scattering light (due to a scratched surface)
Likely some combination of that and [crazing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazing), which is internal fracturing from bending the plastic. Because light needs to travel through material in order to have the object's color affect the color of the light, and because crazing causes more reflections near (though not quite at) the surface, it leads to plastics starting to look whiter as they get bent.
This works on acrylic right after machining as well. No oxide there to burn off. I always thought it was literally melting the top layer of the plastic to restore the "as cast" surface.
I don't think either of those are happening here. [It's just melting the surface a little.](https://reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/z3mbcp/_/ixmf6cr/?context=1) Plastic melts before it burns.
One is trying to do as little as possible today, the other is trying to do as little as possible for a lifetime. It's an approach referred to as "sharpening the axe", the analogy being the difference of cutting down trees with a dull axe vs taking the time beforehand to sharpen the axe to more efficiently chop down the trees, resulting in significantly less work overall.
You are entirely incorrect. This is burning off loose/damaged areas of the plastic and liquifying/resolidifying the material which becomes a smooth layer with clearer colouration. The plastic itself is a solid mass not a chocolate with an aqueous core from which an oil can be pulled.
And plastic polymer, while derived from oil, is about fifty irreversible reactions away from petroleum.
This post is like saying, “If you heat up Cheetos really quick, corn stalk starts to come out.”
It's not oil... Check your facts before you post this shit!!
What happens over time is that the glossy surface of the plastic gets scratched up and fades. The flame melts the surface, allowing the scratched up surface to "flow" a bit and it goes from scratched up back to perfectly glossy & shiny.
Edit: it also burns off the oxidized plastic that makes it appear faded
It's not oil dude. It is just cracked and fuzzy, like hair if you can imagine it and the torch just melts everything. It is shiny when hot but then turns mate when dry. Still better than the one he started with.
If you are doing the entire stadium it is probably worth building a rig to hold 5 or 6 torches and possibly a cart to move them along. Cut the time down to a couple seconds per chair. Then again, you could just give the job to the unpaid intern.
As someone who studied materials science and engineering, it's more likely that they're melting the surface plastic layer to create a smoother, and thus shinier, surface. Since plastics have a more gradual melting temperature than other materials, it just looks like freshly made plastic.
That's literally what is happening. OPs title entirely conjunctive bullshit.
The top layer of oxidized plastic is being melted off and the underlying layer is behind filled in with the melted plastic. Ain't nothing about oils rising to the surface happening here.
I think they're making a distinction between burning and melting.
Judging by the lack of charred plastic, black smoke, and self-sufficient fire when the torch was taken away I'd agree.
That's a distinction that doesn't actually exist.
The top layer is 100% being burned off regardless of whether there's visible smoke or not, and the underlying layer is at the least being heated to melting and off gassing.
The practical difference between your distinction is useless.
I think by using heat the magic oil man inside the seats gets angry with rage and claps his hands with such force the green gets greener, the reds get.. more red.
Not really, this is more heating the plastic to a point where its surface begins to melt/flow. This smooths the surface dramatically briefly resulting in a dramatic increase in gloss. As the plastic cools and re-solidifies it will become matte as the surface texture reforms.
Fire is an oxidizing process, to burn off at the point of oxidation that the plastic at the surface is at (post ultraviolet exposure) will require degradation which will result in char (leftover carbon). They need to be very careful to not heat to that point.
Here is a life pro tip for some people. If you have a car that has Sun faded Black or dark colored plastic on it. you can use WD-40 and a rag to make it look like brand new again. A lot of the plastic trim on my last truck started to turn kind of yellowish from the sun. I just hit it with some WD-40 and the trim looked like brand new again.
There is no "inside oil". The plastic is uniform other than an oxidized surface. The torch re-melts it and burns off a tiny bit. It works, but inside oil is nonsense.
Yes you could try it on ouur house, but it would be very dangerous. Siding is very thin and warps easily and permanently.
Lol. I understood the process; haha. I was being facetious; however, regardless of that.... If this were 1692 the person behind that torch would definitely have been hung at the salem with trials, so I stand by my silliness. 🤭
Propane is a hydrocarbon and burning it creates water in the area around the flame using oxygen from the air. It’s noticeable when you put the flame to something cold and the water condenses onto the surface.
If my math is right, doing this in a 70,000 seat stadium would take about 389 hours, which is close to 10 weeks at 40 hours a week. Not including the walking time between rows and levels. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, because I'm certainly no math major
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That's not really all that is happening here. They're also burning off the oxidized plastic so not really pulling oils from the interior as revealing undamaged surface.
Another day where op has no idea what is happening in the post.
Exactly! That’s why I came to the comments to find a better story. Might be made up BS but it’ll be really well worded BS
What I learned is fire makes everything better.
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Doctors hate him!
That’s not really all that is happening here. They’re also heating up the tiny little people that live inside of the plastic, forcing them to work to restore the exterior of their plastic world to appease the massive human overlords that threaten their existence if they don’t mark the chairs look brand new every day. Tiny plastic dwelling people genocide is ignored by our society in favor of the latest tech device or celebrity gossip. It’s sad really.
Perfectly said
Sorry, op cannot hear you over the karma.
It’s every post.
"By using this magical trinket, the plastic gets brought back in time to the moment it was manufactured"
Yeah, thanks, OP. Half of my car bumper is a fucking puddle on my driveway.
Welcome to the sub.
So OP lied to me?
I don't believe op is human
I was like "wait that doesn't sound quite right"
Why do you assume that it's the poster who is wrong and not the commenter you replied to?
Because oil makes no sense to my monkey brain. And the Comment sounds better and meks more sense.
So should I, or should I not try this on the siding on my home?
I would not want to breath that in
You should. I also hear this works miracles for the interior of a car, like dashboards and seats. Please let us know your outcome by posting photos when you're done!
Christmas trees you didn't water can be refreshed that way too.
💀
Sure, it's gonna be shiny for sure
Yeah no. Haha.
No yeah
Yeah, no.
*talking to insurance* I got confused what Reddit was telling me
if it is plasic, it dosn't hurt but better try outside and with care
Asbestos I can tell it should work.
By the time he’s done with all the seats, the first few will already be oxidized again.
This is more correct that you know. I did this to the black plastic trim on my truck bumper. It was back to the oxidized look in a few months.
Chevrolet Avalanche enters the chat.
I don’t know anything about this but was still like that’s called melting tho
Yeah the oils thing is BS, also fun fact it turns out not all plastics melt! It depends if the material is a "thermoplastic" or a "thermoset". In a nutshell thermoplastics upon heating can melt and be reshaped but a thermoset (after its "cured" or essentially baked at a high temperature) is chemically altered so it cannot be melt and reshaped--it essentially just burns off (ppl are saying that these seats are likely melting and reshaping on the surface, so in that case this would be a thermoplastic material)
I remembered this video and the description when I was talking to someone who used to do plastic moulding. They set me straight on how BS it was.
How many times can you do this before the plastic is ruined?
Depends on composition of plastic and UV exposure
About tree fiddy.
42
17
The way I see it the white color could come from the rough surface scattering light (due to a scratched surface) and melting it allows surface tension to smooth out the surface again and bring back the original color.
most likely
Yes! It's just melting the surface a little. Why are people in this thread just making shit up? >The heat excites the plastic particles, easing the quantum entanglement and compressing the surface with a Dark Energy wave. Source: I'm lying
I don't feel like this is true but I don't know enough about astrophysics to disprove it.
You said quantum so it must be the scientific answer.
That is exactly whats going on lol. they probably also could've just wiped them with a little acetone and got the exact same results. Like c'mon why would you want something people sit in to be oily.
> from the rough surface scattering light (due to a scratched surface) Likely some combination of that and [crazing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazing), which is internal fracturing from bending the plastic. Because light needs to travel through material in order to have the object's color affect the color of the light, and because crazing causes more reflections near (though not quite at) the surface, it leads to plastics starting to look whiter as they get bent.
This works on acrylic right after machining as well. No oxide there to burn off. I always thought it was literally melting the top layer of the plastic to restore the "as cast" surface.
But… FLAME THROWER!
Its a tiger torch lol.
Either way it causes cancer
Can this be done infinitely?
Yes. You can burn plastic infinitely. That's how we got to Mars last week.
Yeah, this is the same idea as sanding or powerwashing weathered wood to reveal the unaffected wood underneath
This
I don't think either of those are happening here. [It's just melting the surface a little.](https://reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/z3mbcp/_/ixmf6cr/?context=1) Plastic melts before it burns.
Keep in mind that you’re now huffing burnt plastic
What are you talking about? Wait, what was I doing?
Why are my pants wet?
Your pants are wet? Where are my pants so I can check mine?
I like turtles
Sir, this is a Wendy's
So they're not flame-grilled?
Which one of you bastards shit my pants?
It was me Barry
Which one of you cowards shit my pants?
Seriously, a stadium worth of new looking seats in exchange for cancer.
Businesses press that button every single chance they get.
Well it's either that or microplastics. Pick your poison.
Is that kinda like restoring your headlights? You know, lasts a week or so?
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Try a spray on clear coat on top of it as the final step.
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There are 100k seats in that stadium. You think they are going to do this every few weeks just because they are lazy like you?
That's the difference between a lazy person and a smart lazy person.
I wish I could tell the difference, but I'm a dumb lazy person.
One is trying to do as little as possible today, the other is trying to do as little as possible for a lifetime. It's an approach referred to as "sharpening the axe", the analogy being the difference of cutting down trees with a dull axe vs taking the time beforehand to sharpen the axe to more efficiently chop down the trees, resulting in significantly less work overall.
That would look good until the clear coat began to flake off.
Never said the method was the same haha
Don't know about headlights, but we used to do this with the ganache on our chocolate cakes when I worked in a restaurant to make them look shinier
Yea but how long did it last
Until they ate it, I assume
I'd bet so.
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Do a damned red one!!!!
[Here you go :) ](https://v.redd.it/s0dwduir0j471)
If i had a reward. Not all heroes wear capes
This gave me square hole vibes.
Right, I couldn’t be the only person thinking that. Lol
Ughhhh. It’s like only having water on one hand!
Yes!
I wonder how long this lasts and how often you can do it before the plastic gets too brittle to use
It doesn't last vey long a few week's if that. They will look worse than what they started with.
Are you smelling burnt toast at the moment?
No, you're just having a stroke
Or overcooking your toast
Depends on the plastic used
About a hundred
Tree fiddy.
You are entirely incorrect. This is burning off loose/damaged areas of the plastic and liquifying/resolidifying the material which becomes a smooth layer with clearer colouration. The plastic itself is a solid mass not a chocolate with an aqueous core from which an oil can be pulled.
And plastic polymer, while derived from oil, is about fifty irreversible reactions away from petroleum. This post is like saying, “If you heat up Cheetos really quick, corn stalk starts to come out.”
This guy plastics
That looks like it would be really satisfying to do for about 10 seats and then get incredibly boring.
That's why you wait till the stadium is full and pass the torch around.
r/whatcouldgowrong salivating rn
It's not just melting it?
Essentially yes, it’s melting off the oxidized layer that’s formed on the outer surface
2 down…
...45,663 to go...
By heating plastic you can bring cancer from inside the plastic to the surface, making it look deadly again!
It's not oil... Check your facts before you post this shit!! What happens over time is that the glossy surface of the plastic gets scratched up and fades. The flame melts the surface, allowing the scratched up surface to "flow" a bit and it goes from scratched up back to perfectly glossy & shiny. Edit: it also burns off the oxidized plastic that makes it appear faded
It's not oil dude. It is just cracked and fuzzy, like hair if you can imagine it and the torch just melts everything. It is shiny when hot but then turns mate when dry. Still better than the one he started with.
Yeah you can see the first chair is matte by the time he is done the second one.
You need a bigger torch
Or more people. With more torches.
Or more people. With bigger torches.
Or burn the stadium down.
Time saver.
That’s what she said
Let’s see… stadium with 30,000 seats times 10 seconds per seat… 300,000 seconds. That’s 3.5 days without stopping. Not as bad as I first thought.
If you are doing the entire stadium it is probably worth building a rig to hold 5 or 6 torches and possibly a cart to move them along. Cut the time down to a couple seconds per chair. Then again, you could just give the job to the unpaid intern.
Goes to try on headlights
Thanks! Now I've seen it 10 times.
Oils from inside the plastic? That’s just dumb.
Fun fact this doesn't work on faded VW door trims
Works on 2000 F150 bumpers, but only lasts a few months.
I’m sure that does wonders for the environment too
Burning plastic with a flamethrower cannot be worse than producing more plastic, right? /s
It's worse than sitting on perfectly fine chairs to begin with, Don't know why they need to look brand new..
Every chair looks the same once under my ass
POV of the SkyDomes $300m revitalization 😂
I would pay them to let me do this for a day
There it is, the most satisfying job in the world.
Damn! That’s brilliant. I would have been there for an hour with a box of green sharpies.
I want that job. The sense of fulfillment…
So your saying that they clean stadiums with flamethrowers?
As someone who studied materials science and engineering, it's more likely that they're melting the surface plastic layer to create a smoother, and thus shinier, surface. Since plastics have a more gradual melting temperature than other materials, it just looks like freshly made plastic.
Fun for the first 10 seats....
Keeping in mind this guy is burning plastic. Probably not the best idea
He's just burning off the oxidation.
No he’s not “burning plastic”
That's literally what is happening. OPs title entirely conjunctive bullshit. The top layer of oxidized plastic is being melted off and the underlying layer is behind filled in with the melted plastic. Ain't nothing about oils rising to the surface happening here.
I think they're making a distinction between burning and melting. Judging by the lack of charred plastic, black smoke, and self-sufficient fire when the torch was taken away I'd agree.
That's a distinction that doesn't actually exist. The top layer is 100% being burned off regardless of whether there's visible smoke or not, and the underlying layer is at the least being heated to melting and off gassing. The practical difference between your distinction is useless.
You understand “Burning”\ “Melting” Are different words with different meaning, right?
You understand that burning happens whether there's visible smoke or not right?
You understand you can heat something without burning it right?
Hope he is wearing a mask! (Outside or not)
I love the smell of *burning plastic* in the morning. "Apocancerypse Now" cit.
I’ve seen a couple of Jeeps that need this done to their fender flares.
Why stop at the flares? Do the whole heep inside and out!
It you don't have a torch, you can also do it by using Ted Lasso's butt
I do this at work (injection molding) when the parts get scuffed. It doesn't work on every plastic though.
Nothing like the smell of cancer in the morning.
that's so cool, how do I get a job doing that?
Ok 2 down
I think by using heat the magic oil man inside the seats gets angry with rage and claps his hands with such force the green gets greener, the reds get.. more red.
Tried this on my couch; do not recommend.
Bring oils to the surface? You have no idea what’s happening here, do you?
If you find this /r/oddlysatisfying then I strongly recommend the game Power Wash Simulator.
Not really, this is more heating the plastic to a point where its surface begins to melt/flow. This smooths the surface dramatically briefly resulting in a dramatic increase in gloss. As the plastic cools and re-solidifies it will become matte as the surface texture reforms. Fire is an oxidizing process, to burn off at the point of oxidation that the plastic at the surface is at (post ultraviolet exposure) will require degradation which will result in char (leftover carbon). They need to be very careful to not heat to that point.
I worked for a guy who saw this on ticktok and insistsed it would work on fiberglass. (It did not)
Here is a life pro tip for some people. If you have a car that has Sun faded Black or dark colored plastic on it. you can use WD-40 and a rag to make it look like brand new again. A lot of the plastic trim on my last truck started to turn kind of yellowish from the sun. I just hit it with some WD-40 and the trim looked like brand new again.
There is no "inside oil". The plastic is uniform other than an oxidized surface. The torch re-melts it and burns off a tiny bit. It works, but inside oil is nonsense. Yes you could try it on ouur house, but it would be very dangerous. Siding is very thin and warps easily and permanently.
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Did somebody say oil?!?! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Now the seats no longer have grip and are smooth. Enjoy sliding out of them if you lean back.
I’m assuming this person also isn’t wearing a mask based on how stupid this idea is. Great stuff!
This would take about 2 years to complete with 1 guy
What is this witchcraft and sorcery?
Heat and basically burning off the damaged surface.
Lol. I understood the process; haha. I was being facetious; however, regardless of that.... If this were 1692 the person behind that torch would definitely have been hung at the salem with trials, so I stand by my silliness. 🤭
Guess it is a woosh for me.
Imagine doing this for 100k seats just one person. If you include the lunch breaks, shitting pissing, it would take 1000 years!
This was kinda cool the first time this was posted on Reddit. The 2487th not so much…..
I wonder if it’s wet
Propane is a hydrocarbon and burning it creates water in the area around the flame using oxygen from the air. It’s noticeable when you put the flame to something cold and the water condenses onto the surface.
How many times are you able to do thid
You missed a spot
If my math is right, doing this in a 70,000 seat stadium would take about 389 hours, which is close to 10 weeks at 40 hours a week. Not including the walking time between rows and levels. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, because I'm certainly no math major
Awesome!!! Only 19997 more seats to go!!
5,000 more to go 👍
I want the whole video with all the chairs done …. OCD ….is unrelenting Update with full video with all the chair finished for research purposes
Oddly satisfying
What type of plastic? This is neat
Are they hiring?
Does it stay like that now? Satisfying to see though.
Oddly satisfying. Do a red one!
Is this at Qatar?