Saddle stains gone!

[Sapphire-Light]

Last year I asked here  about how to take saddle stains, and the suggestions I got were to sunfade the stains

The pony who had them is this Lemondrop who came from a fleashop and she was wearing a pink saddle

The sunfading took a REALLY long time it was more than 5 months, it's even more than sunfading marker stains.

She still has a tiny faint amounth of stains, however even if her symbols were covered all the time they stared to fade I guess it was because the long period of exposure time,  so I stopped the sunfading

Before:

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After:


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[summerday]

Wow! Great job! You've got a lot of patience.

[HoustonCollector72]

So the saddle paint bled into the pony ?


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[Heartcease]

Wow, looks so much better!

[Baby Sugarberry]

It's not paint, it's the dye. 
Plastics are a composite material - of filler, flame retardant, plasticizer (which makes it flexible) and dyes, amongst other things.  Certain dyes are more unstable than others, and over the years the bonds that held the various chemicals together break down and dye can leech to other surfaces or degrade completely.  Reds / Pinks are notorious for this.

[Sapphire-Light]

Wow, looks so much better!

Wow! Great job! You've got a lot of patience.

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Thanks, it was tedious to do all the sunfade for so long but it's wort in the end, in the treat were they told me the sunfading was going to take a while I decided to remove the head and the tail to prevent fading of the hair 

Lol during those months my sister told me "you have that headless pony out there for almost a year now, what's going on? "  lol, I had to explain that the marks didn't fade easily

So the saddle paint bled into the pony ?


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It's not paint, it's the dye. 
Plastics are a composite material - of filler, flame retardant, plasticizer (which makes it flexible) and dyes, amongst other things.  Certain dyes are more unstable than others, and over the years the bonds that held the various chemicals together break down and dye can leech to other surfaces or degrade completely.  Reds / Pinks are notorious for this.

Great info, and that's why it takes so long to sunfade, and here were I live is sunny all the times and in summer the temperature can go over 40c under the sun

Lemondrop was under the sun in those hard sunny days, I have faded ponies wit marker stains all over and they took around 2 or 3 months, but Lemondrop was over 5 months. 

[hathorcat]

Wow! Nice work She looks fantastic. You have so much patience and clearly some good sunlight too

[Clarabel Sapphire]

Fantastic job there 

It has given me hope for my childhood Butterscotch who is badly marked from the saddle and bridle. 

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Just waiting for sunshine to arrive here in the UK now.

[Sapphire-Light]

Wow! Nice work She looks fantastic. You have so much patience and clearly some good sunlight too

Thanks, yeah lots of sunlight here    sometimes when the sun is so strong (along wit the heat)  the plastic of the ponies will get really soft like when you use boiling water, even the boys who have hard plastic.

Fantastic job there  :bigups:get them im boiling water

It has given me hope for my childhood Butterscotch who is badly marked from the saddle and bridle. 

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Just waiting for sunshine to arrive here in the UK now.

Thanks and Good luck wit your Butterscotch 

When I did the sunfading I took the head and tail  , since you need to sunfade the hair  remember to cover the hair also and you could take her tail off