Restoring yellowed computer, console plastics

[sixteen-bit]

I saw this on hackaday recently, a recipe for mixing up a gel to safely restore yellowed plastics of consoles or computers. I'm sure a few of you still have a yellowed SNES or two hidden away somewhere.

http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com/


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[AWESOM-O]

holy crap it's sixteen-bit

[Nico0020]

I never had an SNES, but found read up a lot on consoles yellowing as every one I ever saw did that. Glad to hear there is a solution out there now. No modern hardware uses the same type of plastic anymore though, right?

[Eviltaco64X]

My SNES (which we got for Christmas 1995) never yellowed at all.

I think that was only on older models.

[melancholy]

I didn't even know this was possible. Though my SNES doesn't have that classic yellowing, my NES is starting to show it.

[Code-Red]

holy crap it's sixteen-bit

holy crap its xylene

[Lartrak]

My very early SNES is quite yellowed. I may have to try this...

[AWESOM-O]

holy crap it's sixteen-bit

holy crap its xylene

Say what?

[Jeeba Jabba]

I see the SNES yellow more often than the NES, oddly enough.

[|darc|]

I see the SNES yellow more often than the NES, oddly enough.

It's a specific defect with the SNES plastic

[Ex-Cyber]

I see the SNES yellow more often than the NES, oddly enough.

It's a specific defect with the SNES plastic

What's funny is that only the bottom half of the shell is affected (at least on every SNES I've seen with yellowing). Even the expansion port cover on the bottom doesn't yellow.

[sixteen-bit]

WTF did you do to that Commodore to get it that colour?

That's not mine thankfully. Apparently UV light from the sun will eventually turn some plastic a mingin' brown like that.