Jowi Morales Social Links Navigation Contributing Writer Jowi Morales is a tech enthusiast with years of experience working in the industry. He’s been writing with several tech publications since 2021, where he’s been interested in tech hardware and consumer electronics.
hotaru251 I mean honestly if you "want" a white or "og" look you are better off having a new one made while retaining the original aged look one. You can retain the value by keeping the original while visually liking the newer repalcement for the "clean" look. Reply
BFG-9000 Is it really a surprise that oxidizing agents and UV light damages plastics? The original yellowing was not actually the plastic degrading, but from brominated flame retardants in it decomposing over time, and the peroxide removes that but damages the plastic. Paint will protect plastic from further UV damage, but it won't look completely original. Reply
TerryLaze "Study" = anecdotal observation of a youtuber…. And I'm not bashing tech tangent here, he's great, but this is just his observations. Reply
BFG-9000 But it makes perfect sense. The brominated flame retardants decompose from UV exposure into free bromine, which is brown. Peroxide reacts with bromine to produce bromides, which are colorless. Obviously this only happens on the surface of the plastic, and inside there's plenty more free bromine which over time will leach out to the surface. If the surface is actually damaged/crazed from chemical attack then this migration should happen faster. It's kind of a similar situation with the black plastic trim on your car eventually oxidizing to white as the oils and plasticizers migrate to the surface and get UV degraded, worn or washed away. Sure, you could flame treat it to bring more of those to the surface to restore the color, but there is a finite amount of them in the plastic + the flame itself degrades the plastic so there's only a certain number of times you could do that before it falls apart NjDbttpJ3GY View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjDbttpJ3GY In outdoor stadiums they do this to the plastic seats every 4-5 years, but they can only do it about 4 times before the plastic gets too brittle and the seats need to be replaced instead https://www.facebook.com/fossbytes/videos/the-ultimate-stadium-seat-clean-up/264795406177637/ Reply
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/a-10-year-study-indicates-that-treated-surfaces-turn-yellow-more-severely-than-untreated-plastic-parts-retrobrighting-does-more-harm-than-good-to-consoles#main
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