dying yellowed parts?

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Anyone ever done it? My jokerz upper playfield is trashed and yellowed. I did manage to find a better condition playfield but it too is yellowed.

Was curious as to what would happen if I tried to dye it? Say a red color. I am not familiar with using any form of dye but a quick google search seems that your standard RIT dye would work.

My idea is that I would like the piece to still stay translucent and at the same time hoping a dip in some dye would take away from the nasty yellow color. Reason for choosing red as it is used throughout the playfield quite a bit.

Of course, this is just an idea. Thought I would post here and see what you guys thought. If I did do this, I would try it out on the junk playfield first.
 
Rit dye, when absorbed, will make something transluscent turn opaque. I can tell you this for sure....the pop bumpers I dyed for Shuttle won't let ANY light through now. LOL.
 
Why wouldn't you take a magic eraser to it? We've got games that had been in smoke filled bars for 20 years clean with a magic eraser. Gotta be careful not to take off all the paint, of course. But even if you did, you've got a backup playfield.
 
Rit dye, when absorbed, will make something transluscent turn opaque. I can tell you this for sure....the pop bumpers I dyed for Shuttle won't let ANY light through now. LOL.

Interesting. I have seen some pictures of some clear plastic being RIT dyed and it seems to tint pretty good. However maybe it depends on type of plastic. :confused:

Why wouldn't you take a magic eraser to it? We've got games that had been in smoke filled bars for 20 years clean with a magic eraser. Gotta be careful not to take off all the paint, of course. But even if you did, you've got a backup playfield.

Just to be clear, the upper playfield is made of plastic. No paint to worry about but doubt a magic eraser will do anything.

Try some Retr0bright. It is easy to make and has produced some amazing results with other plastic things: http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com/

ken

I have looked into the retrobright stuff and even read a few pinball related discussions on it. Seems as if the retrobright does nothing on clear plastics. I will look into it some more.
 
To be fair, if it's the clear plastic type deal, it may not be as bad as I'm saying. But I know for sure those plastic white pop bumpers are solidly colored now, lol.

They're so opaque I couldn't leave the factory caps on them. I replaced them with the red white and blue crystal clear caps with colored 5-leds under them and looks great with the rest of my color mods, lol. :)
 
Why wouldn't you take a magic eraser to it? We've got games that had been in smoke filled bars for 20 years clean with a magic eraser. Gotta be careful not to take off all the paint, of course. But even if you did, you've got a backup playfield.

gotta love the magic eraser...these things are freakin amazing. I restore other antiques, not just arcade games, and I've been able to use these to do everything from delicate plastics to removing rust from pieces of iron. Truely a restorers best friend!
 
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