[Coco] retrobright

[Louis Ciotti]

I have considered trying retrobrite, but the hassle of mixing the
chemicals, and complete dis-assembly is just more work than I would want to
do.  Now if I could buy something off the shelf and apply it, I would be
more willing to attempt to do some restoration.

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Bill Loguidice <bill at armchairarcade.com>
wrote:

> That's tricky to do right, but even assuming it's done right and looks
> awesome at the end, you've suddenly defeated the purpose behind something
> like Retrobrite, which is to make it look just the original. Once you add
> paint, it's custom, not original looking.
>
> For my money, I'd only consider painting vintage metal (not plastic)
> computers with rusty or worn panels, and then only with near exact matches
> of the original color. And "consider" and "actually do" are miles apart.
>
> It's good though to see more and more discussions about what to do about
> "yellowed" computers and consoles at various places, because it will almost
> certainly get worse over time. I'm just not sure Retrobrite  (and yes, I'm
> too lazy to look up the correct spelling at the moment) is the ultimate
> answer until we truly know the long-term consequences, though I certainly
> don't fault anyone for trying it.
>
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> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 12:17 PM, mike delyea <mdelyea at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Just curious, I understand retrobriting the keys, but why not just paint
> > the case parts?
> >
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