At 07:09 PM 8/15/2002 +1000, you wrote:
>Ah, would this Back to Black stuff leave the Mac feeling at all greasy? I
>ask because when I bought my used car, the sellers had polished the interior
>plastics with some awful stuff that made them horribly oily to the touch...
Sounds like what happens i
Adam:
Non greasy on anything i've used it on. but depending on what your using
it on, just try a little spot about like a half daollar to see how you like it.
Jim
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Adam wrote:
> > Then, go to Pep Boys and pick up some Mothers brand "Back to Black"
> > It's not black, it's no
> Then, go to Pep Boys and pick up some Mothers brand "Back to Black"
> It's not black, it's not a die. It's an essential oil replenisher that
> brings back
> the original color.Then, keep it clean with something Endust or some other
> oil base dusting compound.
Ah, would this Back to Black stuff
At 23:25 -0700 on 14/08/02, Michaels wrote:
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>From: "the pickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> At 14:57 +0100 on 14/08/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> >Interesting -- maybe the stuff in the US is different. The product sold
>as
>> >"Back to Black" in the UK is a sil
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From: "the pickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> At 14:57 +0100 on 14/08/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >Interesting -- maybe the stuff in the US is different. The product sold
as
> >"Back to Black" in the UK is a silicon polish that brings up a nice shine
on
>
> The onl
aedan:
Thats the stuff, works on plastic side trim plastic interior buttons
Grey or black. never used it on rubber, should work
Jim
Aedan McGhie/Scotland wrote:
> >The only thing I've ever seen with this name in the US is the AC/DC
> >album... :-p
>
> It's
Phil:
Who knows. I may have been misinformed about the contents.
and you are right . Its not to be painted over.
but so far, it works for me.
Thanks for the info. Phil
hang in there
Jim
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Jim Lunceford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>The only thing I've ever seen with this name in the US is the AC/DC
>album... :-p
It's for the rubber bits on cars which start out black but then go
grey over time. It's not paint so you can use it on strips along the
side of the car but you wouldn't use it like tyre paint.
aedan
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Apple
At 14:57 +0100 on 14/08/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Interesting -- maybe the stuff in the US is different. The product sold as
>"Back to Black" in the UK is a silicon polish that brings up a nice shine on
The only thing I've ever seen with this name in the US is the AC/DC album... :-p
--
the
Jim Lunceford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Then, go to Pep Boys and pick up some Mothers brand "Back to Black"
> It's not black, it's not a die. It's an essential oil replenisher that
> brings back
> the original color.Then, keep it clean with something Endust or some other
> oil base dusting co
Pickle:
I suggested this on another occasion where a guy used some spirits on a
power book and turned it grey.
Plastic is made out of oil. When you use strong solvents you dry up the
essential oils in the plastic, Kind of like when someone sets a glass of
bourbon on your polyurathane or varnishe
the pickle wrote:
>
> What colour is the inside of a MacTV?
> --
I remember mine as being black inside. The case color
was always a problem. It reacts to various stimuli. I
had a white residue on the back of mine. I used diluted
dish washing detergent on it but it never really got
clean. It was
At 21:44 -0600 on 13/08/02, Philip Stortz wrote:
>p.s., if it's molded from black plastic, it should be black on the
>inside as well, at least anywhere there isn't a shielding coating.
By that time, Apple had gone to metal shielding around the internals, instead
of spraying it inside the case, a
p.s., if it's molded from black plastic, it should be black on the
inside as well, at least anywhere there isn't a shielding coating.
given earlier comments it seems possible that apple may have used a poor
paint or even a cheap dye or other coating rather than the usual
practice of molding the c
no, but sharpie ink does. most likely a previous owner had damaged it
or painted it and then reblacked it with a sharpie or shoe polish or
some other silly thing. black spray paint would be the obvious
solution. turpentine usually is also safe on plastics and removes many
things, but of course
At 22:13 -0400 on 13/08/02, Matt Jordan wrote:
>When I cleaned it with water, brown dust came off. When I cleaned it
>with IPA the towel turned midnight-black and the case immediately began
>to fade everywhere the towel touched. I can even see the outline of
>towel in the computers casing.
Wow
On Tuesday, August 13, 2002, at 09:28 PM, the pickle wrote:
> WTF?
>
> That sounds like a defective case to me. Weren't the cases actually
> moulded
> with black ABS, as opposed to being painted with some horrible
> IPA-soluble
> coating? Even decent paint doesn't dissolve in IPA.
When I c
Matt Jordan wrote:
>
> When I tried to use IPA (a small amount on a towel to clean up the Mac
> TV the black coloring came off and the areas that had IPA on them turned
> gray. Do not use anything other than water on your Mac TVs! Now I have
> to figure out how to get the normal coloring bac
At 21:09 -0400 on 13/08/02, Matt Jordan wrote:
>On Tuesday, August 13, 2002, at 06:28 PM, the pickle wrote:
>
>> Stains can probably be removed with a bit of rubbing (IPA) alcohol,
>> some good
>> dish detergent, or something like Goo Gone. Don't use solvents as
>> they'll melt
>> the plastic a
On Tuesday, August 13, 2002, at 06:28 PM, the pickle wrote:
> Stains can probably be removed with a bit of rubbing (IPA) alcohol,
> some good
> dish detergent, or something like Goo Gone. Don't use solvents as
> they'll melt
> the plastic and ruin the texture.
When I tried to use IPA (a sma
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