[Coco] Retrobright - anyone used it on a coco 2/3?

Michael Graham jmetal88 at sbcglobal.net
Sun Aug 29 18:52:14 EDT 2010


Oh, I forgot to mention - make sure you mask the case badge before
setting it out in the sun. I forgot to and ended up having to re-color
the red parallelogram with red Sharpie.

On 8/29/2010 5:47 PM, Rob Rosenbrock wrote:

> Looks spiffy! Just like new.

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> On Aug 29, 2010, at 6:23 PM, Michael Graham wrote:

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>> I used that exact recipe on my CoCo 3 and it worked great! I have a thread on coco3.com with pictures, but here are direct links to the before and after:

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>> http://a.imageshack.us/img189/8916/beforea.jpg

>> http://a.imageshack.us/img84/7430/afterm.jpg

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>> Sorry, I took the after shot before I got it reassembled, but it does give an idea of how the color came out compared to the inside of the plastic.

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>> On 8/29/2010 3:51 PM, Jeremy Michea wrote:

>>> Hello, I was wondering if anyone has tried any of the "retrobright" solutions to remove the yellowing that seems prevelant on many computers and game systems of old (especially super Nintendo, yuck!)

>>> I have a Coco 2 and coco 3 with some noticable yellowing and was thinking of trying this receipe, which seems fairly benign compared to some:

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>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/66071596@N00/3822230561/

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>>> I'll probably test it on an old Vic-20 case that I have lying around first. Just wondered if anyone had any thoughts, ideas, suggestions, experiences, etc with using one of these solutions on a coco and what the outcome was?

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