Retr0brite Process Helps Whiten Old, Yellowed Toys
Like many my age, I have Star Wars toys in basement that are well over forty years old. They have stayed in storage for most of that time. I have only considered taking them out and placing them on display recently. Even though these toys have not been touched in decades, they have yellowed over the years. At first, I had thought that I would have to live with the aging. Then, I saw a series of videos by Retroblasting on YouTube. In the videos, Michael and Melinda restored an original Kenner X-Wing Fighter toy from 1978. One video was devoted to the process called Retr0brite, which claims to whiten old, yellowed plastic. I was amazed to see the yellowed plastic of the X-Wing Fighter look almost as good as new. Doing research, I discovered that the process was developed sometime around 2007, among people who collected and restored old computers, particularly Commodore and Apple products. These computers, which were popular in the...