Amiga Community Collaborates On Restorative Gel To Brighten Your Old Plastic

jamie pointed out an Amiga community that took a discovery of how to restore old computer plastic, super-charged it, and then opened the process to the public domain. Time to spruce up those old dusty TRS-80s in the basement. "All of the initial tests were done with a liquid and we realized that for large parts this was getting expensive, so the next stage was to make a paintable 'gel' version that could be brushed onto larger surfaces. This was tried in Arizona in the sun and the UK under a UV lamp and was found to be just as effective as the liquid. We have now released this to the public domain for anyone to use as we can't patent it and we coined the nickname 'Retr0brite' for it, as it summed up what we were actually doing with it."

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Amiga Community

[Lord Apathy]

Both of them?

Re:Hydrogen peroxide attacks some plastics

[poot_rootbeer]

You'd have to be careful with at least PET, because that degrades when exposed to H2O2 for more than a minute or so

No no, they're talking about restoring AMIGAS, not those angular early 8-bit Commodore computers.

Re:After so much silence..

[fireman sam]

Or you can use the DIY Gentoo based computer called "Go fuck yourself"