Yes! And it's not that hard to do.
A lot of retro PC fans round a way to whiten yellowed plastics.
It's really simple > 1.take down vent > 2. Put vent in plastic bag > 3. Fill with hydrogen peroxide > 4. Leave outside in the sun for a day or longer
Success, the plastic will be white again.
It won’t embrittle it. It only penetrates a few molecules deep.
The thing is, they do it on 40 year old plastic that’s been sitting in the sun all that time. It’s brittle when they got it, but if they drop it afterwards and it breaks, they assume it was the peroxide and only have one data-point, and know nothing about chemistry or physics.
And create an objectively worse looking final product because 99% of people with 3d printers will end up printing something with tons of stringing, blobs/zits, gaps, etc. even if theyve managed to be the 1% that’s tuned that out there will be obvious ugly striation lines that simply wont exist on a $4 injection molded plastic vent that also won’t break apart in 2 weeks because the layer adhesion on layer 132 of 400 wasn’t just right with that one roll of abs+
3d printing is terrible. It’s either “oh I spent 80 hours calibrating to print the one thing I actually need and it looks like shit and is structurally weak anyway” or “my machine gives decent parts 70% of the time but I upkeep it by printing stupid bullshit constantly because the world doesn’t have enough plastic bullshit already anyway time to print a tiny pokemon figure I’ll put on my desk for awhile and eventually throw away”
Sadly you have to let more dark ones move in until the property value goes down then the white ones will buy it all back up again
Yes! And it's not that hard to do.
A lot of retro PC fans round a way to whiten yellowed plastics.
It's really simple
> 1.take down vent
> 2. Put vent in plastic bag
> 3. Fill with hydrogen peroxide
> 4. Leave outside in the sun for a day or longer
Success, the plastic will be white again.
this will work but it's going to embrittle it like a motherfricker.
vents are famous for having to withstand lots of impact
It won’t embrittle it. It only penetrates a few molecules deep.
The thing is, they do it on 40 year old plastic that’s been sitting in the sun all that time. It’s brittle when they got it, but if they drop it afterwards and it breaks, they assume it was the peroxide and only have one data-point, and know nothing about chemistry or physics.
Spraypaint it
This. Take it down, clean, and spray with krylon fusion
why go through the trouble when they cost like $4? idk
Mm
Or if you / a buddy has a 3d printer, just print one in white filament
Oh yeah let’s use up $13 worth of filament and take the time to design an ugly vent. spray paint it white and call it a day.
And create an objectively worse looking final product because 99% of people with 3d printers will end up printing something with tons of stringing, blobs/zits, gaps, etc. even if theyve managed to be the 1% that’s tuned that out there will be obvious ugly striation lines that simply wont exist on a $4 injection molded plastic vent that also won’t break apart in 2 weeks because the layer adhesion on layer 132 of 400 wasn’t just right with that one roll of abs+
3d printing is terrible. It’s either “oh I spent 80 hours calibrating to print the one thing I actually need and it looks like shit and is structurally weak anyway” or “my machine gives decent parts 70% of the time but I upkeep it by printing stupid bullshit constantly because the world doesn’t have enough plastic bullshit already anyway time to print a tiny pokemon figure I’ll put on my desk for awhile and eventually throw away”
most moron and wrong take on 3d printing I have ever seen
you are actually an idiot
>Anyone ever had success making these white again?
is this a trick questiony4jgj? I just spray painted mine.
Melamine pad dipped in kerosene
spray paint
>making these white again?
/misc/ pls lv
They’re not white from the factory, that tanish color it started off at was popular in the 90s
Think old computers before they yellowed that office light tan color was everywhere