How To Restore Your Beige Retro Hardware

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Restore your old PC, peripherals, or consoles to their original white or light color.

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[firebee1991]

I'm surprised nobody ever thought of this before.

 

[r0x0r]

A chemist working for a German museum found that dipping the faded plastic in a Hydrogen Peroxide solution actually undoes the yellowing process...

So if I dip an iMac in it does that meant that the monitor will display colours correctly?

 

[gdilord]

Thanks for the useful information!

 

[yoy0yo]

Will this work for my NES?

 

[Darkerson]

Nifty!

 

[fazers_on_stun]

LOL - while you're at it, dip your teeth in the peroxide and then smile at the UV light for a day or two, to also get rid of the yellow or brown stains .

 

[thebigt42]

I'll try it on my old VIC 1541 drive....Yes I said VIC 1541...I got the drive before the C64 came out

 

[zak_mckraken]

So instead of having a brown, outdated piece of garbage, you'll have a gray, outdated piece of garbage.

 

[sliem]

[citation][nom]zak_mckraken[/nom]So instead of having a brown, outdated piece of garbage, you'll have a gray, outdated piece of garbage.[/citation]

It's beige.

 

[jitpublisher]

Oh great, I hope our CFO doesn't see this. I can hear him now, "We can go another 10 years without upgrading all your hardware because we can restore to just like new". My AS400 green screen will look so much better with a biege case than a yellow case.

 

[jsx82]

can i unyellow my SNES?

 

[zak_mckraken]

[citation][nom]sliem[/nom]It's beige.[/citation]
I'm a guy, I want 32-bit color depth even though I can barely recognize 16 colors. What the hell is fuschia!?

 

[mavroxur]

[citation][nom]zak_mckraken[/nom]So instead of having a brown, outdated piece of garbage, you'll have a gray, outdated piece of garbage.[/citation]


What solution can we dip you in to make you go away?

 

[NoCaDrummer]

Will this finally make my beige PowerMac G3 run OS-X?
(It's the reason I finally gave up on Apple and moved to Linux.)

 

[rooket]

I did this over the weekend with two pairs of Adidas shoes. Works but of course shoes are kind of a tricky item to work with. I'm going to do some other plastics next. All you need is over the counter 3% hydrogen peroxide and the sun. Some people use higher concentration mixed with oxyclean and a UV lamp but that starts costing more money to get all set up.

Oh and I cleaned up 2 Adidas plastic charms. Most of the yellow came out of those but they weren't real bad off when I started.

 

[rooket]

[citation][nom]jsx82[/nom]can i unyellow my SNES?[/citation]

You probably can but I took one of those yellowed SNES apart and not only does it yellow but the plastic became brittle and it chipped extremely easily (I'm very careful when I take stuff apart, the case has a nice big chip in it now but it doesn't bother me, that is what ebay is for). I found there was a model of SNES that didn't yellow at all so I bought one of those. It is the one that has the sticker on top I think it was near the power button or reset I can't remember which. Set me back a cool $20 on ebay a few years ago.

 

[Blessedman]

can i use this on my coffee stained teeth?!

 

[applegotmelaid]

Anyone find a use for the turbo button yet? One-touch overclocking maybe 😉

 

[eddieroolz]

Interestingly I have no beige hardware in the house.

 

[ta152h]

[citation][nom]firebee1991[/nom]I'm surprised nobody ever thought of this before.[/citation]

They have. I've been using it for years, and I know others who have been too. It's pretty much common sense.

 

[anamaniac]

I tried buying some high concentration hydrogen peroxide, but no one would sell it to me. Screw this 3% stuff at home or 20% you buy in chem shops. I wanted the 85-90% stuff. 🙁

Cool to know though. Think a couple lil UV cold cathodes in my case would be enough?

 

[ta152h]

[citation][nom]anamaniac[/nom]I tried buying some high concentration hydrogen peroxide, but no one would sell it to me. Screw this 3% stuff at home or 20% you buy in chem shops. I wanted the 85-90% stuff. Cool to know though. Think a couple lil UV cold cathodes in my case would be enough?[/citation]

You can get 35%, which is extremely strong. If you get it on your fingers, you'll know what I mean.

 

[zak_mckraken]

[citation][nom]applegotmelaid[/nom]Anyone find a use for the turbo button yet? One-touch overclocking maybe[/citation]
Oh yes! I forgot about that! What was thast about!? My first "rig" was a Pentium 133mhz, and it had a turbo button. When I pressed it, the led pannel on the front would go from 133 to 150. Back then , I always kept it at 150, but now I realize that it probably wasn't doing anything, if not a small placebo effect!

 

[gdilord]

[citation][nom]applegotmelaid[/nom]Anyone find a use for the turbo button yet? One-touch overclocking maybe[/citation]
On the 286 (or was it the 386?) that I had the turbo button definitely increased the available horsepower of the computer. One could literally see the increase/decrease in animation speed on the computer.