Has anyone attempted to bleach a yellowed console by leaving it out in the sun? How did it work out?
>>11516943I did, the first couple days were like a miracle but then it took many more days for less visible effectEventually (months) it started to revert a little but I heard it's the same with other methods
My famicom stopped looking like a smoker's lungs but didn't get all they wat to white. Pretty soon I stopped fucking around and now I do it inside with some hair cream and a sous vide stick. You see some good results with the sun method on youtube. Check the forecast for max uv and a clear blue sky, and I bet you could do just as well as anyone
>>11516947Why did the sun remove the soul?
>>11516985Souls are evil, as proven by Castlevania Aria of Sorrow
>>11516943Not quite yet. I do have the tools to get it done, but I am waiting for summertime.
>>11517000>I am waiting for summertimesame, I'm going to try my dreamcast and my dmg
>>11517179Yup. I got my Dreamcast to whiten as well. Summer time will be perfect.
Does this make the plastic more or less brittle than retrobrighting?
>>11516943I did it for a week, results were alright. Definitely an improvement but nothing as good as the real methods.
>>11516947I'll be damned. So it's only indirect UV through a window or something that yellows old plastic?
>>11518065yes, that game boy had spent YEARS behind a glass display, itself in direct view of a ceiling window
>>11517518Both methods oxidize the very thin outermost layer of the plastic which shouldn't affect the overall structural integrity if you think about it. Abs isn't porous, nothing is seeping into it. That being said, this is a treatment for shitty old plastic that has degraded in some way. I want to say the sun would be safer, based on nothing but my gut. It's just total boomer science until someone does an experiment. Peroxide is obviously not best friends with the plastic. On the other hand, neither is leaving your shit in the sun for hours. As an anecdote, when I was new to this I soaked my famicom in hair cream for probably a couple of weeks straight trying to KICK IT UP A NOTCH sun bleaching it on my covered apartment balcony. When UV waned near the evening, I would just bring it inside and leave it soaked because I didn't give a shit. I just kept doing it until I could live with the color. I kept refreshing the cream too. Yes that was retarded, but I didn't have a great spot for the sun method and was just winging it. To this day, that shell feels exactly the same on the outside and will not snap if you bend it around.
