RetroBright experts?

[Half-Saint]

Anyone here experimented with RetroBright? I'd like to remove yellowing from a bunch of keycaps...

[The Solutor]

I think that the good old cocktail (50% ammonia, 50% Hydrogen peroxide) should be the better option to clean old plastics.

And it's also relatively cheap.

[ripster]

Retrobrite Rulez. Hydrogen peroxide might make the plastic brittle.

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[The Solutor]

It's unlikely.

Most of the "delicate" laundry bleaching products are based on Hydrogen peroxide or Sodium perborate, or both.

The cocktail I mentioned is also used since the stone age to clean the antique wood w/o hurting it.

I think that the best way is using the mentioned cocktail just for few seconds or few minutes depending on the plastic conditions, then washing it with a lot of water, then drying, then using a wood care spray wax.

The jonson's wax one, is called "Pronto" in Italy, i don know if the same name is used outside Italy.

[ripster]

I like how you defend your point of view without any supporting data.

Is that an Italian debating technique?

[The Solutor]

It's just 15 year of work in almost any electronic sector + 15 years of IT technician + 2 years of antique furniture restoring + a bunch of hobbies.

Usually the experience matters, in Italy, as in US.

[ripster]

Hahaha - I just realized that's a bottle of hydrogen peroxide in my picture.

Anyhoo - it DOES work better with some UV.

It's a chemical reaction Free The Radicals thing.

[The Solutor]

They are all oxidizer, they are doing, more or less the same thing.

And they are more handy than some other oxidizer, like this...

[Peter]

Hahaha - I just realized that's a bottle of hydrogen peroxide in my picture.

No it isn't, your picture depicts a hairdresser product.
It contains additives suitable for (dead) human hair .
ABS-plastic isn't hair !

[ripster]

It's not?