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Re: Another Retr0Bright Success Story (PCE no longer yellow)
« Reply #15 on: October 19, 2009, 10:17:50 AM »
But, I have to ask: was it really worth cleaning the NES MAX pads? Don't get me wrong, they look really nice now, but it just seems like a waste of time, effort and retrobrite. :)
No it was not worth the time, but I WAS only going to do the max to try out this whole process but the batch was so big I didn't want to waste the retr0 so I went ahead and and did all the pieces I had ready.

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Re: Another Retr0Bright Success Story (PCE no longer yellow)
« Reply #16 on: October 21, 2009, 08:12:19 AM »
I finally reached a point where the top loader looks ok, hard to tell a difference between the throat cover and the rest of the top. Flash is on since it helps show a differnce in color when its there.

Started on some zapper guns I had layin around.

Switched over to the liquid process so I could leave it for long periods of time and not owrry about it drying out. Notice the bubbles forming on the surface, at least it looks like something is happening.
Also found the pasrts want to float up so the hangers hold em down.



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Re: Another Retr0Bright Success Story (PCE no longer yellow)
« Reply #17 on: October 22, 2009, 03:16:23 AM »
my method is less work and pissed off a few people when I said it was better.  You don't have to play bathroom chemist.  The noise died down when some other people tried and agreed.

I went to the pet store and bought 2 jugs Urine Rescue, its stronger than 40 vol. peroxide.  prior to this I used 40vol from Sallys too.    Both work, with the only upside to the Urine Rescue being you can dilute it down to 40vol strength with water, thus giving you more bang for your buck.

Anyway, you line the bottom of a fish tank with foil and lay your stuff in it. 

then you dump your peroxide of choice in until you submerge the stuff completely.  If you don't take up the entire tank, displace the peroxide with something good.  I used a coffee can full of rocks.   I have also used bricks wrapped in foil.  Dont use anything dirty or the peroxide will fizz and clean it, and cloud the stuff up.

Then you just sit it on your porch in the sunlight.   4-5 hours later you get nice results.  If its going to rain that day, you might want to wait, or put a cover over the top.  a CLEAR cover.   I just use another fish tank on those kind of days

You don't have to mix goop together, work with messy paste, or any of that.   Best part is the peroxide is reusable this way.   I did a marathon bleaching of 2 computers, some disk drives, an NES, and some other crap.

The peroxides been in the garage for a few months now. It might still be good!

Note : If its not sunny out (Winter!) you CAN just stick a UV lamp over it just the same.  Actual sunlight will always yield better results though.





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« Last Edit: October 22, 2009, 03:25:36 AM by Arkhan »
[Fri 19:34]<nectarsis> been wanting to try that one for awhile now Ope
[Fri 19:33]<Opethian> l;ol huge dong

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Re: Another Retr0Bright Success Story (PCE no longer yellow)
« Reply #18 on: October 22, 2009, 03:46:46 AM »
my method is less work and pissed off a few people when I said it was better.

Holy shit!  It worked so good, you bleached the whole outdoors.  :D

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Re: Another Retr0Bright Success Story (PCE no longer yellow)
« Reply #19 on: October 22, 2009, 04:06:08 PM »
I went to the pet store and bought 2 jugs Urine Rescue, its stronger than 40 vol. peroxide.  prior to this I used 40vol from Sallys too.    Both work, with the only upside to the Urine Rescue being you can dilute it down to 40vol strength with water, thus giving you more bang for your buck.
Great! Thanks for the info! Do you know exactly what volume of urine to water to get 40vol?
I too am not convinced the paste is worth doing and want to do sun over the $40 uvb bulb I got just cuz it doesn't work fast enough for me...

That green tub of zapper guns has the worst one still soaking in it, been like 2 full days and not totally restored, not that I care too much about the gun, its just I want to see some real results on lots of different pieces.

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Re: Another Retr0Bright Success Story (PCE no longer yellow)
« Reply #20 on: October 22, 2009, 07:21:25 PM »
Urine rescue is 40%.

40vol cleaner is 15%

so you can go half and half basically.

i wish i saved pics of the disk drive i bleached and sold.  It was so yellowed that it LOOKED like it was supposed to be that color originally.

I restored it to :



It took about 4 hours in the sunlight

[Fri 19:34]<nectarsis> been wanting to try that one for awhile now Ope
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Re: Another Retr0Bright Success Story (PCE no longer yellow)
« Reply #21 on: October 23, 2009, 05:38:05 AM »
The peroxides been in the garage for a few months now. It might still be good!
I've read the peroxide degrades in light so it may have lost its potency, but worth a shot to reuse it.

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Re: Another Retr0Bright Success Story (PCE no longer yellow)
« Reply #22 on: October 23, 2009, 07:09:38 AM »
The peroxides been in the garage for a few months now. It might still be good!
I've read the peroxide degrades in light so it may have lost its potency, but worth a shot to reuse it.


i stored it in a dark purple rubbermade bin.

i actually went out and poked it today.  I felt the burn!

its still good!
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Re: Another Retr0Bright Success Story (PCE no longer yellow)
« Reply #23 on: October 23, 2009, 10:09:52 AM »
Urine rescue is 40%.

40vol cleaner is 15%

so you can go half and half basically.

i wish i saved pics of the disk drive i bleached and sold.  It was so yellowed that it LOOKED like it was supposed to be that color originally.

I restored it to :



It took about 4 hours in the sunlight




So what's with the faded logos on these drives? Were they like that before the treatment, or was this photo taken in the early 70s? Did the solution do this, or is it just the lighting/jpeg compression?

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Re: Another Retr0Bright Success Story (PCE no longer yellow)
« Reply #24 on: October 25, 2009, 07:00:32 AM »
the silvery ones are from the flash being reflecty

the rainbow ones were faded prior to treatment.  The guy i had got them from had them sitting in a window  #-o
[Fri 19:34]<nectarsis> been wanting to try that one for awhile now Ope
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Re: Another Retr0Bright Success Story (PCE no longer yellow)
« Reply #25 on: October 25, 2009, 07:34:21 AM »
I have a PS1 owned by a turbo-smoker (its brown. I'm not kidding.) and I was debating throwing it out, but teh retr0bright might be the better option. It smells like a subway ashtray  :-&
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Re: Another Retr0Bright Success Story (PCE no longer yellow)
« Reply #26 on: November 27, 2009, 08:07:24 AM »
Hello everyone. I am Merlin, the alchemist who wrote the Retr0bright Wiki. After seeing Sign0fZeta's work, I thought I'd pop over here and see if you had any questions you wanted answered.

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Re: Another Retr0Bright Success Story (PCE no longer yellow)
« Reply #27 on: July 15, 2010, 02:55:44 PM »
Just finished a major (3-day) retr0bright session, Thanks for the Wiki Merlin, photos posted in the next reply...

Hello everyone. I am Merlin, the alchemist who wrote the Retr0bright Wiki. After seeing Sign0fZeta's work, I thought I'd pop over here and see if you had any questions you wanted answered.

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Re: Another Retr0Bright Success Story (PCE no longer yellow)
« Reply #28 on: July 15, 2010, 03:22:33 PM »
... It started out with this broken CDROM2 that I got on eBay a few weeks back.



It came with a parts unit, so I was able to assemble one complete unit after tearing them both apart. My White (brown) PCE was also craving attention as both looked pretty worse for the ware when plugged into my IFU-30. I disassembled the PCE, and cleaned the shells with Dr. Bronner's castille soap to remove all of the extra dirt, grime, and tar.



My controllers and tap were also in pretty sad visual shape, lots of yellowing, sticky buttons, and soda-pop residue (what else could it be?), so I disassembled them and cleaned the casings.

The Box was next, from an old Dell printer that stopped working last year, I lined it with Tin Foil and started to mix the ingredients. Everything was found at Rite-Aid with the Exception of Xanthan Gum, which I got in bulk at the Natural Foods Co-op. No blender so I stirred it by hand; this is before the oxy was added and all of the gum had dissolved completely.



I put the two boxes out in the Sun at around 9:30AM, (clear forecast this week), and waited about 11 hours to take them inside. A few spot checks here & there to make sure the parts weren't getting too hot.

The results  :shock: :shock: :shock:  totally blew me out of the water.



The PCE was done on the first session, and came out shock-white and smelled like brand new system. 2 of the controllers were finished on the first run, the other two were re-applied and finished up with the tap during the second session. The CDROM2 took a mammoth 3 SESSIONS to take all of the yellowing completely away from it. But lo and behold!



All thanks to the cleaning power of Peroxide. Thanks Retr0bright!!  :mrgreen: 8)
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Re: Another Retr0Bright Success Story (PCE no longer yellow)
« Reply #29 on: July 15, 2010, 06:13:37 PM »
wow blue looks like new  :shock:
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