Whitening your yellowed Famicom

[Walky]

Me too, but I live in Chile, where the one with the most money makes the rules.

That's true...
Sadly, a house with smoking parents (not that they're actually on fire! hehe) usually means that sooner or later their kids will be smoking too. And even the kids that are smart enough to not follow their example usually end up being "passive smokers".

[Trium Shockwave]

If I were to bleach my Famicom's case, would I need to worry about the stickers and the front red logo?

I wonder about that myself. Maybe if enough people petition ReproLabels they could hook us up with a replacement set? They do wonders for collectors of vintage toys.

[PatMan33]

Any liquid would make me worry about the stickers. I wouldn't put any bleach near my console.

[Lorfarius]

If I were to bleach my Famicom's case, would I need to worry about the stickers and the front red logo?

Yes it will ruin the colour and work its way through the sticky coating.

[satoshi_matrix]

So then the only way to whiten a famicom by beach is to giveup any logos it may say on it, just making it a plain red and white box. A shame...

[Lolmann]

stic some paper over the stickers with a bit of tape

[L___E___T]

I wonder if T-cut would work?

I used to use it on car panels to spruce up lacquer and paintwork - it works by taking a very thin layer off to reveal the shininess underneath.  Depending on how deep the ellowing goes it may work and you could keep the stickers as it just comes in a box of wipes.

To yellowing itself, I did hear that the fire retardent chemical they put in the plastic has a fine line between too much and too little.  The reason some cases yellow more than others is they have a frcation more chemical in, it's a manufacturing problem apparently but of course smoking will yellow cases.  Just not all cases are tobacco stained.

I'm thinking of painting my famicom pearl white and red anyway, like the special SP in Japan  http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/news/07/14/nesgbasp_screen001.jpg - what do you think?
I may do the pads too and put new stickers on, TEA 4 TWO famicom tuners sell them and also offer a repainting service for anyone who's interested:

http://www.tea4two.jp/product_info.php/products_id/63/

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.tea4two.jp/blog_news/index.php%3Fcid%3D2&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=2&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.tea4two.jp/product_info.php/products_id/63/%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26channel%3Ds%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26hs%3Dpf0%26sa%3DG

You'd prolly need a Japan contact, mind.

[PatMan33]

So, a friend and member of this forum says he's figure out how to whiten yellowed Famicoms. But he won't share the so-called secret.

I say we get some rope and a couple piping hot irons and figure this conundrum out.

[NintendoKing]

If I were to bleach my Famicom's case, would I need to worry about the stickers and the front red logo?

I have a bleach pen, you draw around the stickers, and then carefully wipe off the bleach.

[L___E___T]

Yeah, that's a real ass-ish attitude to take, why keep it a secret?  So one person can have the whitest famicom?  Nice one.

I thought the whole point of this website and the community as a whole is to actively talk and share things.  We played these games as kids but that doesn't mean we have to behave like them all over again.  To hear that someone has a solution but is just keeping it to themselves for whatever reason is really disappointing an immature.

[133MHz]

Don't forget the BS factor. I'd say pics or it didn't happen.

[JC]

He makes money off this kind of thing, by buying yellowed Famicoms and then reselling them as white, so he says.

[L___E___T]

So if he's offering a service surely he'd like to let people know about it?  I know TEA 4 TWO do that but they don't do international orders plus they paint I think (and add their own stickers).

I think your friend should at least pipe up and say how much he charges or something rather than let a whole thread go on about it and say nothing..

Don't you JC?

[JC]

I was just trying to undermine his genius with our genius, but looks like his genius is immense compared to our genius. I'm sure he'll see this eventually.

[L___E___T]

Being an Englishman, I still think it's horrifically bad form!