I've successfully "retrobrited" old TV safety screens and a few NES console. What I used was 12% hydrogen peroxide from the beauty supply shop, along with sodium percarbonate, glycerin to keep it wet and xanthan gum to stabilize it to a paint on gel. Then all you do is paint it on, cover it with Saran Wrap and put it out in the sun. One of the TVs I did, I still have it and the yellow didn't return. I don't know about the NESs because I flip them
Fun chemistry! On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Chuck Guzis <ccl...@sydex.com> wrote: > On 08/23/2015 09:53 PM, Ali wrote: > > I can tell you from personal experience that repainting does not work >> well. One, matching the color is nearly impossible. You can get >> pretty darn close but not exact. Two, the paint quality is never as >> good. Three, the feel is different - this one is hard to explain: it >> just doesn't feel smooth and slick but rough and scratchy. I have >> tried different brands of paint, gloss, non-gloss, sealant, etc to no >> avail. I can make it look good especially from a few feet away but in >> practice you can easily tell it has been painted. >> >> Just my two cents. >> > > Hi Ali, > > If you're talking about rattle-can painting, I can believe that. > > But there's painting using professional spray gear, as well as > powder-coating. Rattle-can was never intended as anything but an "any > idiot can do it" proposition. > > If that weren't the case, we'd all be painting our cars using a spray can. > > Regardless, if I read the conservation lists correctly, plastic is > eventually doomed. No one seems to know how to stabilize it. > > I recall an Apple color monitor that sat on a table and, without being > powered on or otherwise disturbed, would shed a bit of itself every now and > then... > > Just my own .02, > Chuck > > >