De-Yellowing Plastics With Retr0Bright
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Blasterqueen: hmm only a faint smell, it's not like a bleachy smell or anything, just a chemical one, reminds me of the smell you get from a bottle of pills.
Sazeus: I left em all out for about 7 hours, but some things (like one of the Dreamcasts) were done in an hour or two. The recipe I followed used a much higher strength of hydrogen peroxide though. Saturday was very overcast most of the day too, but this time of year we get a lot of UV anyway to help the reaction.
Miles: I left everything assembled, which means you need to be very careful with the cleaning off of the stuff later on, but I much prefer that method to completely disassembling as the Retr0Bright is a paste and is easy to apply to the areas you want it on specifically. I used three different cloths (each getting progressively dryer) to then take it all off, which wasn't too difficult.
Rock On.
Sazeus: I left em all out for about 7 hours, but some things (like one of the Dreamcasts) were done in an hour or two. The recipe I followed used a much higher strength of hydrogen peroxide though. Saturday was very overcast most of the day too, but this time of year we get a lot of UV anyway to help the reaction.
Miles: I left everything assembled, which means you need to be very careful with the cleaning off of the stuff later on, but I much prefer that method to completely disassembling as the Retr0Bright is a paste and is easy to apply to the areas you want it on specifically. I used three different cloths (each getting progressively dryer) to then take it all off, which wasn't too difficult.
Rock On.
holly crap what a difference
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Indeed! Great work Rick!Gluecifer said:Another personal grail radio Retr0Brighted with rather impressive results.
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Go!
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Gotta try this! How fascinating. This is the most useful thing I learned today. I just figured it was tar, but now that I think about it, even when you smell cigarette residue, that doesn't always come with yellowed surfaces. Some of the before and after pics out there are astounding. I was wondering why the battery cover on my Conion was perfect gray but the rest of the back was tinged yellow, and most pictures I see of others are this way as well. Maybe it's a smaller piece and didn't warrant a plastic containing flame retardant?
I'm certain it can be removed, the yellowing is from a specific molecule and these recipes target it. I noticed that my C100 has it on the outside only, maybe yellowing from sunlight takes longer to remove or a stronger solution. Perhaps stronger hydrogen peroxide or a UV lamp would help?superlew said:
Off topic if I may
Gluecifer, are your Dreamcasts Japanese? They can't be PAL due to the orange logo
I used to have a couple of ex-arcade machine multi-zone NTSC-J Dreamcasts with heaps of games but, I sold most of them a few years ago
I may have one or two NTSC J games buried somewhere I think (probably not very good one's) and I have a few VMS/VMU's as well. If you would care for them I could try to find them and give them to you...depending on what shipping would be of course
There's a chance that they may have been lost however
Gluecifer, are your Dreamcasts Japanese? They can't be PAL due to the orange logo
I used to have a couple of ex-arcade machine multi-zone NTSC-J Dreamcasts with heaps of games but, I sold most of them a few years ago
I may have one or two NTSC J games buried somewhere I think (probably not very good one's) and I have a few VMS/VMU's as well. If you would care for them I could try to find them and give them to you...depending on what shipping would be of course
There's a chance that they may have been lost however
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