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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: jahc on November 29, 2002, 02:59:57 AM
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I want to buy an old A600 (because its portable and cool).. but I want a nice sparkly white one. Is it possible to clean a yellow case with JIF or something to make it white again?
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Is it possible to clean a yellow case with JIF or something to make it white again?
I don't see how Peanut Butter could help in this situation... (I was just amused by this - JIF is a large brand of Peanut Butter here... I'm sure it's a cleaner there, though...)
but I want a nice sparkly white one.
Spraypaint, perhaps? I honestly haven't heard of anything that works. (But the upside with paint is you can go with any color scheme you want!)
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I've tried alot of stuff to get different cases back white... nothing did work. ;-)
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I don't think anything would work short of
soaking the plastic in bleach. Today I removed
the rather large side speakers off a 1020 PB
monitor and underneath was as white a tan
line as the little girl had whoose dog was pulling her
pants off on the old suntan lotion bottle. Gee, I
guess that would now be semi-pornographic?
:-o
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jahc wrote:
I want to buy an old A600 (because its portable and cool).. but I want a nice sparkly white one. Is it possible to clean a yellow case with JIF or something to make it white again?
Spray paint. You can make it any color you like. The case on the 600 or the 1200 comes off easily enough. Hang it on a wire coat hanger and play "body shop" with it. I don't recommend bleach because it changes the plastic.
I have a frankenputer here with Linux on it. When I bought the used AMD 200 for 25 US it had been painted a flat olive drab, and abused. So it was a scratched up OD green. Application of a can of satin black to the case cover and bezel made it look like a brand new machine. (Run like a brand new machine, different matter, but I digress)
Oh and never by a computer from a smoker. What smoke does to the insides of computers is terrible. The outside is bad enough.
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@Lo
I don't think anything would work short of
soaking the plastic in bleach. Today I removed
the rather large side speakers off a 1020 PB
monitor and underneath was as white a tan
line as the little girl had whoose dog was pulling her
pants off on the old suntan lotion bottle. Gee, I
guess that would now be semi-pornographic?
:-o
I tried bleach on my A4000 bezel, but it dinna do a damned thing. I eventually gave it to a panel beater friend who painted it a creamy white for me.
And some trivia for you. One of the girls featured in that old coppertone advertising campaign is none other than Jody Foster.
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Is it yellow from cigarette smoke? I always found the cleaner we've got here called Formula 409 to take it out nicely. Gotta drench it in it pretty good, but the cleaner running off the case you can actually see turn a mucky yellow. Great stuff.
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If the plastic turned yellow cos' of the light then forget it, it cannot be made sparkly white again, it's a chemical reaction in the plastic itself. DO NOT TRY any agressive stuff on it, you will only make things worse, ever seen plastic been eaten away ?
A paint job is your only sollution. :-)
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Why not try Toothpaste?
or ...
that Toothwhitener that makes teeth looks like they are in an android's mouth?
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jahc wrote:
.....Is it possible to clean a yellow case with JIF or something to make it white again?
Surely you mean CIF? ;-)
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VortexAU said :
that Toothwhitener that makes teeth looks like they are in an android's mouth?
Ah .. You mean McCleans .. That burns your gob off don't it !! :-o
Colgate for ever
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thierryd wrote:
If the plastic turned yellow cos' of the light then forget it, it cannot be made sparkly white again, it's a chemical reaction in the plastic itself. DO NOT TRY any agressive stuff on it, you will only make things worse, ever seen plastic been eaten away ?
A paint job is your only sollution. :-)
This is not strickly true. UV light is responsible for the yellowing, however it does not penetrate all the way through the plastic.
Find an inconspicuous bit any use a compound cleaner or burnishing paste to remove the yellow.
Dont forget to buy some elbow grease at the same time. :-D :-D
Firstly stick it in a dish washer with a couple of finish powerball tablets and you'll be amazed how it comes out.
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Be a damn site easier to use
D D 7
Haven't seen it in a while though.
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The_Editor wrote:
Be a damn site easier to use
D D 7
Haven't seen it in a while though.
What about DDT :-P :-P :-P
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I want to buy an old A600 (because its portable and cool).. but I want a nice sparkly white one. Is it possible to clean a yellow case with JIF or something to make it white again?
If it's stained from cigarette smoke, 409, Fantastik, or another similar spray household cleaner and a towel will take it right off..
Harv
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Keep it nicotine yellow, just like my name. :)
I don't smoke BTW.
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JurassicCamper wrote:
The_Editor wrote:
Be a damn site easier to use
D D 7
Haven't seen it in a while though.
What about DDT :-P :-P :-P
A mosquito was crying with pain, for a chemist had poisoned its brain! The cause of its sorrow, was 4,4'-Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane.
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I´ve just completed removing black spray paint from a a4000 box, and restored the white color under with nail polish remover. I used cotton balls on the surfaces and Q-tip (ear cleaning cotton stick) for the difficult places.
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Im sure Michael Jackson can help you with that issue :-D
ok ok, bad joke :-(
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restore2003 wrote:
Im sure Michael Jackson can help you with that issue :-D
ok ok, bad joke :-(
Very topical, bad and YES funny!!!
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Is it possible to clean a yellow case with JIF or something to make it white again?
i used special foam cleaner for plastic to "unyellow" a keyboard. it worked really good :-)
i used "KONTAKT CHEMIE" and "DATA FLASH - FOAM CLEANER"
just spray it on the parts you want to clean, go and have a cigarette ( or anything else which takes 5 mins ;-) ), get the foam off the parts - finished
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Sounds intresting!!!
What are the US equivelants of those?
OR
What are the main/base ingredients, so I know what to look for?
THX!!
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(http://image01.conrad.com/m/9000_9999/9900/9950/9958/995803_BB_02_FB.EPS.jpg)
this is the "DATA FLASH - FOAM CLEANER"
there´s nothing written about the ingredients on the label. just some warnings about handling/using and that it is extremely flammable.
the foam cleaner smells similar to oven cleaner spray for the kitchen, perhaps it´s the same (tho i haven´t tested it yet)
it could be worth a try to look for foam cleaner in electronic shops (there i got mine, too)
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So, if I use the above spray on actual keys (not the keyboard plastic) will it remove the letters on the keys? My A1200 has a few yellow keys (I am not smoking and I have not a clue why certain keys got yellowed)... I can buy one of those since I have some pals in Germany...
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Were/Are the A500s as white as the 600s? Mine looks like the colour of my old 386...beige colour i think?
Is it meant to be that colour?
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the foam cleaner smells similar to oven cleaner spray for the kitchen, perhaps it´s the same (tho i haven´t tested it yet)
Oven cleaner in the US is made with :pissed: SODIUM HYDROXIDE :pissed: Very Toxic, burns skin etc. I suspect it would melt plastic :-?
Perhaps you meant counter-top spray?
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Be careful with sodium hydroxide - it has a habit of turning you into a sloppy mixture of sugars, amines, monosodium amino acid salts, glycerine and soap. Not nice.
Sodium hydroxide should only attack polymers that are susceptible to nucleophiles and bases so most plastics used in the old yellowing cases should be fine. Certian materials like polyurethanes and so on might be allergic to it.
As for that oven cleaner aroma; you can't place sodium hydroxide by smell though. And if you could, it would dissolve your nasal tissues rather badly.
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Inspired by some earlier threads on the subject, I used acetone on my A600 power supply. It did get rid of the yellowing, but you have to be really thorough in applying it, the item will smell afterwards, and you lose the even porous texture of the plastic (it will be slick and slightly unevenly unyellowed) :-D
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Inspired by some earlier threads on the subject, I used acetone on my A600 power supply. It did get rid of the yellowing, but you have to be really thorough in applying it, the item will smell afterwards, and you lose the even porous texture of the plastic (it will be slick and slightly unevenly unyellowed)
Well, that doesn't sound very promising. I think I'll skip on doing that. ;-)
Searching around a bit, I found this product available in the US.... It sounds like the North American version of the foaming cleaner.... Anyone tried it?
Rite Off -- Hood Cleaner (http://www.americangaminginc.com/americangaming/catalog.cfm?dest=itempg&itemid=1499&secid=11&linkon=subsection&linkid=42)
If so... How well does it work? If no one has tried it, I might pick one up and try it on an old A500 power supply, or something, and report back.
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The A600's were much whiter than A500's.
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From Danamania's web site, i found some helpfull tips (I don't know if they apply to Amigas as well ;-) ).
(http://www.danamania.com/albums/beige/abm.thumb.jpg)
What a little time and a lot of bleach can do. I pulled the case apart and soaked all the plastic parts (keys included) in chlorine bleach for a few hours. After a rinse and a hand-drying, it all came up much nicer looking :) *
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restore2003 wrote:
Im sure Michael Jackson can help you with that issue :-D
ok ok, bad joke :-(
The Amiga is too OLD to be of any interest to MJ!
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T_Bone wrote:
restore2003 wrote:
Im sure Michael Jackson can help you with that issue :-D
ok ok, bad joke :-(
The Amiga is too OLD to be of any interest to MJ!
A1200s are between 9 and 12 years ........
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There ain't much yellowing on me ST (http://www.amiga.org/images/subject/icon26.gif)