Another possibility comes from the plastic modeling hobby. Look for a
product called "Easy-Lift-Off" from a company called Floquil-Polly S
Color Corp. One can find it in the paint department of most
trains-planes-and-automobiles hobby shops. It is designed for removing
unwanted "coatings" from plastic models without damaging the plastic or
destroying the detail. I've not used it on any Apple plastics, but I've
used it on styrene with both commercial and home-applied coatings,
including water-based acrylic model paints, with great success. YMMV
Sp00ky
Philip Stortz wrote:
> i've always done fine hand washing mac cases with a little dish soap.
> re: the dishwasher problem, it was probably due not to the aggressive
> water spray but rather the automatic dishwasher soap, most of them
> contain allot of lye and sometimes a bleach, not good for your' hands or
> electronics, but excellent for dissolving food and not sudsing, similar
> to draino!
>
> Mark Benson wrote:
> ------
>
>>I recommend against putting pre-1990 cases in the dishwasher (any Mac
>>II except the IIsi maybe and any compact apart from the Classics/CCs)
>>as the earlier machines did not use tin plated shielding for EMI
>>reduction, instead they used a spray paint of heavily loaded silver
>>metal paint on the inside of the case. Back when we discussed doing
>>LCs and Mac IIs on Vint. Macs one guy said his dishwasher stripped
>>the silver paint off of the inside of his IIci casing. Unless you
>>know a place that sells the spray paint (for repainting inside TVs
>>maybe as they used it too) I'd avoid the dishwasher. A combination of
>>a good foam case cleaner and some Isopropyl Alcohol spray for the
>>tough stains brought my pair of SE/30s up like new, apart from a
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