Interesting discovery about plastic discoloration...

Rik

I just found this recently:

http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com/

And it really got me thinking about the odd-colored plastic things I have (like the old computers they are showing on the site). But then I remember the Actronics/Hanzawa games we were discussing a while back... Talking about how some of them were different shades of blue. I wonder if this is part of the reason for that? I think I still have an oddly-blue game I can sacrifice sometime to try this out, and see if I can restore it to a nice shade of blue instead of the olive-green tinted shade I see occasionally... Smile

This would probably help on yellow white games as well like Mattel Football and the like...

I'll experiment with it and let you guys know what it does...

Rik

Linda · Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:18 pm Post subject:

Cool. Let me know how that works. I have tons of games that could use it.

Linda

mobutu16 · Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:37 am Post subject:

Good, I have a yellowed Mattel Ski Slalom who needs reborn Laughing

Let me know too!

nicknicknickandnick · Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:52 pm Post subject:

Weird that UV light is somehow part of the cure when it was also implicated as part of the cause, as well as bromine atoms in flame retardant.

I have a Commodore 128 computer whose keyboard is a peculiar mix of keys in that some of them have changed, and some of them have not, yet they would have experienced the same environment. Different manufacture batches I suppose with a crucial difference.

Not mine, but similar to what I mean:
http://imagesocket.com/view/c128c22.jpg