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possible answer to yellowed parts
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Mon, 2 Mar 2009 22:26:56 GMT
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I found this article here
http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com/
about a process to reverse the yellowing of ABS computer parts.
Anyone know if the same thing would work for yellowed and UV damaged LEGO?
Anyone want to take a sacrificial UV damaged part (one thats not worth much
and easily replaceable) and try it themselves?
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) Holy moley, that's quite dramatic. I have an abundance of old elements that have yellowed badly. If I can dig them up, I'll definitely give this a try. Heck, if it works, it'll even be worth buying a Billy Mays product like Oxy-Clean! Dave! (15 years ago, 3-Mar-09, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: possible answer to yellowed parts
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| (...) (URL) The only problem that I had was to find Hydrogen Peroxide 10% in the liquid form. Here in Brazil, the drugstores only sell it in a creamy form. Will try to buy some H2O2 in some lab. Ildefonso. (15 years ago, 5-Mar-09, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: possible answer to yellowed parts
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| (...) YES, it works, but there are even simpler solutions. A safe way which has been succesfully tried by many Czech and Slovak AFOLs at www.kostky.org since 2005 (sorry, I don't recall who invented it): - you can restore only parts meant to be (...) (15 years ago, 5-Mar-09, to lugnet.general)
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