Hi,

I am not sure if you are aware of this, but a breakthrough discovery has been made; a method has been perfected to completely reverse the yellowing of old computer cases and plastic parts such as keys and mice.

You need some hydrogen peroxide, some "Oxy" laundry booster and a UV lamp.

Using 35% peroxide, half a teaspoon of "Oxy" and a 75W UV bulb, yellowing of a Nakska mouse house (remember those?) was 75% reversed in 2 hours under controlled conditions. Weaker strengths of peroxide work but take longer, the worst yellowing may take 72 hours or more to reverse, but that's still pretty quick compared to years of oxidation.

This method depends on UV light and a chemical called TAED which is found in the "Oxy" products, these accelerate the process by about four times then using peroxide alone.

This was discovered by a German, the method was perfected by the British with help from Brazil and was worked out by chemists and plastics engineers.

No adverse effects happen to the plastic, this just reverses the yellowing which is caused by oxidation of the flame retardents which were put into the plastic before moulding.

There are threads about this on amiga.org and EAB, I suggest that you read these up to see what has been achieved.

Link here:

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=37808

Feedback is welcomed.

EDIT: If anyone tries this from this site, pictures would be welcomed, thanks.

Merlin

@orgin

One of the site developers (Zetr0) was doing some minor editing work on the site.

Clear your cookies and try again, it should be working now.

Merlin

@orgin

Point taken and post edited appropriately.

It's OK, leave the thread as it is, at least you could say I made quite an entrance!!!

LOL

Merlin

PS. Please visit the site and let me know what you think.

@Mikey_C

He really needs to calm down, hopefully once that's happened he will start to make a positive contribution to the site.

Regards

Merlin

Edit: earlier comments removed and edited.

@Snuffy

Thanks, we have worked hard on the site and so far it's been well received. You can't see the Recycle Bin unless you are a member and one of the Mods or Admins grant access; this is how we keep traders away from offers of hardware that members should benefit from.

Amibay is not here to supply the auction sites with cheap stuff, we are here to offer an alternative for sceners who are sick of traders driving prices up on the auction sites.

@ p4r4d0x

Sorry mate, it would not be appropriate to discuss your membership on here, so I won't. Nice to hear your A1200 project's nearly done though. My A600+ project has stalled due to work commitments but it will get finished eventually. I haven't got any spare A1200 ROMs but meega seems to have that covered for you.

Cheers

Merlin

Hi all,

I am Merlin, one of the team that looks after Amibay, the new Amiga trading site that launched last Christmas to fill the void left when Amibench closed.

You can find us at www.amibay.com (or .net, .co.uk or .org, we aren't fussy :))

We have nearly 400 members and have now expanded the site to cover other retro formats.

We also have a Recycle Bin, where members can offer items for just the costs of shipping. This area is off-limits to traders, so that they don't benefit from cheap hardware or software to sell on at a profit.

So, if you want an Amiga site run by sceners for sceners, pop in and take a look, you might like what you see!

Cheers

Merlin