RichyX

I wonder this is temporarily fix or permanent. The reason I ask is basically I understood that the surface of the plastic that was oxidised has been washed off. Leaving the undernealth virgin plastic so it looks new. I wonder it will speed up the process later on since the surface of the plastic was chemically washed out.

It's pretty much the same thing as automobile plastic headlights's len which turn yellowed over years because the surface was oxidized. Some people do water sanding and it turns out great, but it comes back 3 or 6 months later on and faster than before. Brand new headlights is coated with protective coat to prevent that so basically we are removing the yellowing protective coat. This is also why brand new vehicle will have rainbow effect surface and those are the protecitve coat.

the only reason the headlights turned yellow is the manufacturers used yellow headlamp bulbs instead of white

ive never seen a headlamp go yellow when usinga white or blue bulb, but ford had this problem on the mondeos (contours) as they used yellow bulbs and over the years turned the light lenses yellow

it does not harm paint so no masking is required, that tf has a painted head and its made it cleaner without damaging the paint

heres the after pics once cleaned with water and assembled

you can see in this pic the blistering on the light grey joints

also a warning, do not get this stuff on your hands, i did and it gave my fingers pins and needles and also turned them white taking the moisture out my fingers, clean off with cold soapy water asap and moisturise your hands if you get any on you

anyway for the sake of £10 its worth givingit ago ona junker and see how you get on, at least there isa way of fixing yellowing toys and i will be doing the same to some of my tfs which have badly yellowed over the years

thouht id post this up as i read a few years ago about a solution to fix yellowing toys

well i had a go this week and these are my results

the solution is hydrogen peroxide, you need the 35% food grade stuff and can be bought off ebay

i used a transformer which i had so thought id give it ago

heres some pics of before and after

all stripped down

once at this stage give each part a clean with some soapy water and tooth brush

also you dont have to take the item completly to bits i left the arms intact

next put in a glass jar and fill with solution

this needs to be put into direct sunlight, and you will start to see air bubbles in the solution, if in direct sunlight for a couple of hours then the process will be quicker, unfortuantly for me i didnt have much sunlight so had to leave it in solution for 4 days

now just be carefull, with coloured plastic as it can be turned white, so you need to keep an eye on it, and also some softer plastics, as the softer plastics on this, mainly joints have blistered so i need to replace these, but the rest are perfectly intact, no softeness in the plastics at all, if you do different colours, use different jars i just tested it all in one jar as it was a junker

sure you dont just want to sell me one lol

ill keep this going as i relaly would like another

anyone as im still lookingbut im hitting a brick wall now

mine was never used, it was on display with my balck yf-19 and vf-1s annivarsry models

let me know please if you do want to sell

anyone

i really would like another one

surely someonemust have a spare

im after the 25th anniversary macross shot glass that save was doing last year

mine got smashed today while it was moved to clean the shelf it was on and im not a happy person right now

so if anyone has one for sale or knows where i can get another id be very gratefull

thankyou

i do ship worldwide and combine postage for multiple items aswell

the postage giving is a rough estimate but usually works out about rite or i lose out most of the time lol

thanks

i just hope it all goes to good homes to be honest as ive had this lot for many many years, but in todays climate i need to sell

im having to sell viryually my entire collection on ebay to fund a new car

there is macross, robotech, gundam and transformers

so thought id give you the heads up

heres the link

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/xr4x4rs

miriya and her valk was done for me, and i must say its a quality bit of work and art, very highly recommend for anyone who wants a nice drawing doing

i just wish you could buy things and have protection on paypal withot going through ebay aswell, as ive also lost over £450 as i bought a rare transformers raiden giftset which never turned up, was bought from a fellow in usa, investigation was done through paypal, accepted i won the case due to him not replying bt couldnt refund my money as he had no money in the acccount!! also a member on here called zeo-mare took my money for a drawing and never done the goods or replied to my messages, thankfully i found someone else on here to do my drawing though

all through paypal even phoned them up

they said it wasnt a proper tracking number and i couldnt even do a counter claim either, all my stuff i send worldwide never has a problem getting anywhere and i always send it with a tracking number and even royal mail said it had been delivered

its private bidders i hate

i just sold all mt ransformer collection, he won a couple paid for them etc, 10 days later after they were sent out i get a paypal claim saying items havnt turned up

even gave paypal all the info and even a tracking number and they still refunded him, so i lost of £200 wirth of goods, without shipping i paid, and he gets his money back, i flive anywhere near china ill be on his doorstop like a shot

so i dont trust paypal or anthing anymore, and now when i get people to send me money through paypal its always sent as a gift as i dont get charged to recieve so paypal doesnt collect any money from me

thats a nice collection there mate, good luck with the sales

do you ship to the uk or is it us residents only?

d/l each one from in parts, install hjsplit, once download just open hjsplit and then its common sense, it puts them into a zip file, unzip extract etc, then you have your folder with the avi in it

ive just spent couple hrs d/l and converting it to dvd and its now in my dvd player on tele to watch , ive had a quick scan through and im so looking for ward to watching this

oh you will also need to convert the avi file if you want to burn it onto disc

the big d/l is corrupted and the 8 parts take less than an hr to download

thanks, shame its all going to have to go but i have no where to display them at the minute and its just dead money sat on the shelf, so hopefully i can get a decent amount and go get a car or motorbike

wel li bought a iwata eclipse from a local model store always has 10 yrs warranty which i couldnt complain about, havnt tried it out yet but in the next week or so i will

time has come to sell all my trasformers alls im going to be collecting now is pg gundams and macross

ive stuck them all on ebay as i really dont know what each one is worth

heres the links

http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZxr4x4rs

i will ship worldwide and dont charge extra for paypal

ok if i was going to go for a iwata, what model would be best

i build have some gundams i want to build these ra ethe 1/60 scale, but i also have some macross battroids to build aswell though being a lot smaller

my compressor has the water trap, and tank etc and ha sbeen fine

ive only uses tamiya acrylics, andthese have been thinned down, i couldnt use it thick the airbrush wouldnt take it but dont forget im not using a badger, i was using a cheap immatation one copied from a badger design

but i just couldnt work with teh jars, i even bought more jars for it so i had ones for different things

i need a gravity fed one as i think they will be better

every badger airbrush ive found has the glass jars

they are a good idea,but i carnt get on with them as sometimes the pipe doesnt come off as it should and is a pain to clean

i want something that is easy to clean, will be reliable and work as it should when it needs too

Machine mart do an all-metal dual action airbrush very cheaply (about £18 IIRC). That'd do the trick.

Unusual for an airbrush to 'pack up' - what was it?

that very one lol

its a cheap remake of the badger, plu si never got on well with the glass jars, and it kept clogging up, was a pain to clean and everything, the tubes in the jars were a nightmare to clean

i was told by a local model shop to look for iwata as they seem to be the very best

but id be interested in other brands, as long as there gravity fed and parts are easily available incae the worse does happen