deskthority

Anyone here experimented with RetroBright? I'd like to remove yellowing from a bunch of keycaps...

I think that the good old cocktail (50% ammonia, 50% Hydrogen peroxide) should be the better option to clean old plastics.

And it's also relatively cheap.

Retrobrite Rulez. Hydrogen peroxide might make the plastic brittle.

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It's unlikely.

Most of the "delicate" laundry bleaching products are based on Hydrogen peroxide or Sodium perborate, or both.

The cocktail I mentioned is also used since the stone age to clean the antique wood w/o hurting it.

I think that the best way is using the mentioned cocktail just for few seconds or few minutes depending on the plastic conditions, then washing it with a lot of water, then drying, then using a wood care spray wax.

The jonson's wax one, is called "Pronto" in Italy, i don know if the same name is used outside Italy.

I like how you defend your point of view without any supporting data.

Is that an Italian debating technique?

It's just 15 year of work in almost any electronic sector + 15 years of IT technician + 2 years of antique furniture restoring + a bunch of hobbies.

Usually the experience matters, in Italy, as in US.

Hahaha - I just realized that's a bottle of hydrogen peroxide in my picture.

Anyhoo - it DOES work better with some UV.

It's a chemical reaction Free The Radicals thing.

They are all oxidizer, they are doing, more or less the same thing.

And they are more handy than some other oxidizer, like this...

ripster wrote:Hahaha - I just realized that's a bottle of hydrogen peroxide in my picture.

No it isn't, your picture depicts a hairdresser product.
It contains additives suitable for (dead) human hair .
ABS-plastic isn't hair !

It's not?