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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: BlackFalcon448 on Mon, 07 March 2011, 17:25:51

Title: Key/Case Yellowing
Post by: BlackFalcon448 on Mon, 07 March 2011, 17:25:51
Hey guys, I think I am posting this in the right section. Anyway I recently acquired an AEKII and noticed that the space bar and upper case are yellowed. I was wondering if there was an way to safley remove the discoloring or if i will just have to deal with it. It's kind of hard to tell by the pics, but it's much more pronounced in person.

P.S. I got the keyboard with a power macintosh 7600/132 which has much worse yellowing. If has the same type of plastic maybe I could clean it in the same way...?

Pics here:

(http://oi56.tinypic.com/2jfnes6.jpg)
(http://oi53.tinypic.com/x5qam9.jpg)
(http://oi55.tinypic.com/k2g5ro.jpg)

I couldn't figure out how to upload pics directly to geekhack, so I hosted them on tinypic.
Title: Key/Case Yellowing
Post by: BlackFalcon448 on Mon, 07 March 2011, 18:16:17
Quote from: ripster;307180
RetrObrite instructions here. (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:9099)
Show Image
(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=8237&stc=1&d=1268151839)


Wow! Thanks for that link.
Title: Key/Case Yellowing
Post by: Peter on Tue, 08 March 2011, 12:23:42
'Clairoxide', that's a Hairdressers-product right ?
It may contain, for key-caps and hairdressers, undesirable chemical additives AFAIK .
The recommendation is to use min 10-14% hydrogen-peroxide, however it may be problematic
to find it these days as it can apparently be used by Al-Cracker to produce exploding shoes and underwear ..
If you do find it : WEAR GOGGLES AND CHEMICAL GLOVES !!
I **** you not, this stuff eats your skin and/or eyes !!