Whitening your yellowed Famicom

[133MHz]

The solution has been found! (apparently):

http://www.zonadepruebas.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4947&forum=17

(Spanish alert, but the pictures speak for themselves!)

[Steev]

The solution has been found! (apparently):

http://www.zonadepruebas.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4947&forum=17

(Spanish alert, but the pictures speak for themselves!)

Ah very nice! For those who don't understand what kind of solution they use: it's hydrogen peroxide

[133MHz]

Yup, at a 30% concentration. The stuff you get at your corner drugstore is about 3% and won't work.

[PatMan33]

What do they say about the solution eating away at the plastic?


**EDIT**
It seems like there's an English version here? They've got all the same pictures and everything.

[2A03]

I thought this might be of interest: http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=138244

[PatMan33]

Nice stuff! I'm gonna have to print all this out.

[UglyJoe]

Those articles have blinded me with science.

I'd try it out on some of my broken Famicoms, but I don't have a UV lamp.

[PatMan33]

Use the mighty UV lamp in the sky that the earth mother has so graciously given us!

[UglyJoe]

I don't have a yard...and if I left it by the window, my cat would surely ruin it somehow.

[L___E___T]

Could you get, like, a tupperware container and stick it on the window?  I think I'm going to do that myself.

I'm glad we found a solution to this, it irked me for a long time that someone knew how to do it and didn't say, just to make a few bucks off each one.  I just look at this community and communities in general and think how great it is that people share ideas and methods and we all get alot from that.

Business secrets are different, but from the sound of it JC this was hardly big income from your friend, he didn't even have the effort to post here.

[JC]

FYI: Here's another article on hydrogen peroxide, and a link posted a while ago has new info about that same:

http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com/
http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/189

[2A03]

FYI: Here's another article on hydrogen peroxide, and a link posted a while ago has new info about that same:

http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com/
http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/189

Looks like the stuff was able to deyellow an SNES. Awesome!

[FamicomFreak]

Wow this is great stuff. Gotta try this out!

[Trium Shockwave]

I just heard about this on Security Now. It's a pretty exciting prospect. I'm assuming you could paint the gel on around the stickers on a Famicom to avoid damaging them. Or, maybe the gel wouldn't harm them?

[133MHz]

Supposedly the gel doesn't harm them, but nothing is stopping you from being extra cautious.

I'm dying to try this method on my yellowed Famicom, SNES and Atari 800XL. Once I get the necessary materials take for sure that I'm going to be posting pics of my results .