Fun with Retr0bright

[Arkhan]

Don't forget to tell everyone that you submerged it in liquid on a <40 degree day, which won't help, most likely.

Also, IIRC, that gray plastic is not even safe to mix with peroxide.

I submerged an SNES and it worked fine but it doesn't have that gray cap piece.



Liquid method works fine, dude.




You'd have had the same fate with the creamy method too.   It just would have taken way longer for you to realize you screwed up...

[SignOfZeta]

F*** the liquid method.

Do you have a better picture than that? Its hard to tell what happened. Is it just the grey laminate piece that's bad?

[Arkhan]

If you look realllllllly close at the hastily taken for the internet to behold photo, you can see that the rest of it is fine, and it just didn't finish getting bleached.



That gray piece shouldn't have been in contact with no peroxides.

[DragonmasterDan]

Do you have a better picture than that? Its hard to tell what happened. Is it just the grey laminate piece that's bad?

[Arkhan]

Did you clean the thing off before submerging it?  It honestly looks like 20 years of fingerprint oil got in the way of it working right.

Also, did you dismantle the thing before submerging, or did you put the entire thing in peroxide, motherboard and all.

[DragonmasterDan]

Did you clean the thing off before submerging it?  It honestly looks like 20 years of fingerprint oil got in the way of it working right.

Also, did you dismantle the thing before submerging, or did you put the entire thing in peroxide, motherboard and all.

It was cleaned before submerging it, and it was just the shell. I obviously wouldn't do that with the board in it.

[Arkhan]

what did you clean it with?  Details are helpful so we can all know why this stuff happened, seeing as you may be the first one to experience it.

[DragonmasterDan]

what did you clean it with?  Details are helpful so we can all know why this stuff happened, seeing as you may be the first one to experience it.

Soap and hot water.

[Arkhan]

... what kind of soap?

soap often leaves a residue behind that can get in the way of chemicals doing things.

[DragonmasterDan]

... what kind of soap?

soap often leaves a residue behind that can get in the way of chemicals doing things.

Dawn dishsoap

[Arkhan]

... what kind of soap?

soap often leaves a residue behind that can get in the way of chemicals doing things.

Dawn dishsoap

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if it left a soap residue behind on the hardware since the plastic is sort of porous.

Soaps are bases.  H2O2 is an acid. 

They neutralize each other.

[turboswimbz]

While soap may have interfered - soap isn't basic at all.  Soap is a fatty acid in fact most soap is a balanced 7 or high six about the same acidity as peroxide    !  

[Arkhan]

While soap may have interfered - soap isn't basic at all.  Soap is a fatty acid in fact most soap is a balanced 7 or high six about the same acidity as peroxide    ! 

Dish soap is a base, dude.

[turboswimbz]

While soap may have interfered - soap isn't basic at all.  Soap is a fatty acid in fact most soap is a balanced 7 or high six about the same acidity as peroxide    ! 

Dish soap is a base, dude.

While soap may have interfered - soap isn't basic at all.  Soap is a fatty acid in fact most soap is a balanced 7 or high six about the same acidity as peroxide    ! 

Dish soap is a base, dude.

Only the concentrarted dish soap. normal dish soap is right around a 7.
I'm not convinced the nuetralization would effect the oxidation anyway.

[Arkhan]

regardless, it's going to leave a residue behind if not cleaned off well, and once the peroxide gets all up on that, it's likely going to produce streaked/smeared/goofy results, like what is shown above.

the splash marks on it look like what'd happen as soap runs down the thing as you rinse it, leaving behind a trail of jive.