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Offline tauburn

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retr0brite on non yellowed caps
« on: Wed, 10 April 2013, 13:34:18 »
I was wondering, if i were to take any set of keycaps and use retro brite on them would it change the colour of the plastic?

such as taking a set of black keys and make them into grey.

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Re: retr0brite on non yellowed caps
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 10 April 2013, 13:51:46 »
Try it - FOR SCIENCE!
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Offline tauburn

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Re: retr0brite on non yellowed caps
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 10 April 2013, 13:53:52 »
Try it - FOR SCIENCE!

i probably will once i get my new keycap set, but someone on here must have by now or at least knows what the peroxide solution does and what the outcome would be

Offline pix3l_fodder

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Re: retr0brite on non yellowed caps
« Reply #3 on: Sat, 13 April 2013, 14:39:55 »
im pretty sure it wont work

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Re: retr0brite on non yellowed caps
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 21 April 2013, 09:10:08 »
I'm pretty sure it'll work...ish. You'll need to do it for some excessive times, and the results will likely be uneven.  Basically you'll be intentionally doing a bad retrobrite job.

To get it more even I would recommend not doing the gel, but just using a peroxide/oxyclean solution and agitating periodically to make sure to not have dark spots where things float or touch the container and such.