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scott:
Ha. She was asleep on my sofa and I went in and turned on the lights. She was like WTF?
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More like. "You rat bastard, can't you see I am SLEEPING?!"
Two reasons really. Sunlight is number one. The second is that I always wanted one of those things when I was in grade school because one of my friend's had one. Now I do!
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Ah, ya Sunlight plays hell on the NES and SNES for sure. I found a cure for browning plastics online once, it involved tearing the casing down and a bunch of household products. I saw on a forum an old Apple II that was super brown, came out looking pristine white again.
darko:
More like. "You rat bastard, can't you see I am SLEEPING?!"
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That sums it up nicely!
Ah, ya Sunlight plays hell on the NES and SNES for sure. I found a cure for browning plastics online once, it involved tearing the casing down and a bunch of household products. I saw on a forum an old Apple II that was super brown, came out looking pristine white again.
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I've seen that too. Luckily my consoles aren't too bad right now. I have 2 different SNESs. One is mine from years and years ago and it's slightly discolored (not worthy of a chemical bath) and the other one is pristine (last model before the redesign). I believe they changed the plastic that they used on the later models right before the newly designed SNES came out that wouldn't yellow. I use the nice looking one so I guess I'll find out sooner or later.
madmax:
from what I could understand, its the kind of plastic they used that browned. It was a bad batch and oxydized like no tomorrow. My snes' top plastic is extremely brown. i bought it like that. because of the color, it was extremely cheap. if you can find that website again. That would be awesome!
as for a gameroom, ill snap a picture of what I have setup once I've finished moving.
tpugmire:
It's called Retrobright. I don't have the link on my phone but it's a wikipedia site. I've tried it a few times but it never seems to come out quite right for me. Practice on stuff you don't care about until you get it right.
And it's not a bad batch of plastic that caused the yellowing. Back then, bromine was added to the plastic used for the housings of electronic devices as a fire-retardant. Bromine reacts with uv light and causes the plastic to yellow.
madmax:
Hmm alrighty.
My top cover is completely yellow whereas the bottom cover is perfectly grey. There's no fade or anything. Both are completely different. I would be surprised if both were made the same way :/
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