A quick google has just shown me it might have been Atari Age? Still, no-one has documented this method it seems, just mentioned it works.I think we got the information from the same forum.
It works on Wii Remotes, for example (well, I did a nunchuck - but it was with liquid peroxide).I don't know if this makes a difference, but would this only work on matte type surfaces and not glossy?
A quick google has just shown me it might have been Atari Age?
Profit, huh?You can make a cheap UV Chamber/Developer to accelerate the process. All you only need is:
- A large enough box or something similar
- A UV Lamp or bulb
- ???
- PROFIT
Something easy to build like this:
http://www.benchfly.com/video/88/diy-uv-developing-chamber/
Damn, it worked great on everything except the purple power and reset buttons on my SNES. Now they're all marbled and cloudy looking
Will put some progress pics up in the morning.
I have a super yellowed SNES but when I took it apart a while back to mod it for SFC games, I saw one of the case screws was originally screwed in at an angle, stuck in the plastic and part of the case snapped off with it. I got it back together fine but I'm a bit wary of opening it back up again.
you should have probably taken apart your controller. like in the op
Umm I wasn't doing a controller, I was doing a console, and it was taken apart. The result I got is called blooming, just bad luck and conditions I guess.
Find a way to avoid it in the future or just luck of the draw?
Atari Age is where I must have read about it, I read the Lynx section there every now and then.
It was cool reading the original retrobright discovery thread (IIRC it was at an Amiga forum?) where someone came up with the initial idea and someone else later on explained the chemical process behind it. The cream makes the whole thing so much easier.
OP has been featured in Kotaku.
I had a similar thing happen to my top loader NES. Sometimes the plastic just get's brittle over time. Super Glue fixed it right up, though.
I know a lot of people make jokes about Kotaku writers sitting around and f5'ing Neogaf all day for news, but sometimes that feels pretty damned accurate.
In Kotaku's defence, this topic is interesting and the thread isn't even getting much attention on the board.
Where are you guys buying this stuff?
I'm wondering this as well. Can you just buy it at a department store? Hair salon?
As far as I'm aware, that's completely incorrect. And it certainly does not seem to work that way.Really good results. A word of caution though, hydrogen peroxide does this by actually dissolving plastic.
The brittleness seems to be either illusionary, or a separate breakdown.Does this stop the plastic being brittle too, in the case of the SNES?
That sucks man. I got that from the liquid once, try washing well in metho/alcohol. I've never done 'light' coloured colours though, so no idea how they work.Umm I wasn't doing a controller, I was doing a console, and it was taken apart. The result I got is called blooming, just bad luck and conditions I guess.
As far as I'm aware, that's completely incorrect. And it certainly does not seem to work that way.
The brittleness seems to be either illusionary, or a separate breakdown.
Yes sometimes they are more brittle, and this doesn't stop that. But sometimes you think they're brittle, when they are not, it's just psychological because it's yellow. I did a SNES controller like that.
That sucks man. I got that from the liquid once, try washing well in metho/alcohol. I've never done 'light' coloured colours though, so no idea how they work.