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Re: Removing Yellow Tarnish?
« on: May 29, 2005, 11:37:28 AM »
Depends, if it's muck from having been around smokers it should be easy to remove with a general purpose cleaner diluted in some water. However if it's yellowness due to having been exposed to UV radiation you can't clean that. Your only option would be to sand the yellow layer off or paint the case.

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Re: Removing Yellow Tarnish?
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2005, 12:28:41 PM »
Or, alternatively, you could place your precious Amigas in a vacuum...

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Re: Removing Yellow Tarnish?
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2005, 09:47:03 AM »
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>However if it's yellowness due to having been exposed to UV radiation
>you can't clean that. Your only option would be to sand the yellow layer off or paint the case.

It really pisses me off when people who don't know the answer just conclude that because *they* don't have a solution, that it must be impossible.  There are precious few "can do" people in the Amiga world today.

What I meant was, was that UV yellowed plastic has changed chemically and can't be made white, unless you remove the yellow layer of plastic by sanding or (which people have indeed suggested and I indeed failed to say) using chemicals to remove a small layer of plastic.