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Getting rid of yellowing?
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<blockquote data-quote="Joe" data-source="post: 121927" data-attributes="member: 440"><p>Actually yellowing is most likely to come about from bad storage conditions or exposure to the elements, like leaving a figure in the sun or half buried in the ground or sand box, a bit of mud or dust won't turn a figure yellow.</p><p></p><p>Figures break down and react to other plastics as well so keeping them in plastic bags with no air holes and in a sealed container for example may result in yellowing, those figures are not dirty- they are degraded due to the plastic breaking down or reacting with other things.</p><p></p><p>Edit- <em>I once put my mint han carbonite figure face down in his carbonite block, sealed him up in a zip lock for storing while I moved a million miles away from home, 2 years later his torso was completely yellow yet only the front! To me that says it all, the plastic of the block and the figure reacted in an environment with little to no air and the result was yellowing. The back of the figure was like new and like it was when I put it away..</em></p><p></p><p>Second Edit- :lol: - <em>What about figures that have discoloured in the bubble? Torsos and limbs that are completely different colours, that's not dirt if the figure was sealed is it?</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Joe, post: 121927, member: 440"] Actually yellowing is most likely to come about from bad storage conditions or exposure to the elements, like leaving a figure in the sun or half buried in the ground or sand box, a bit of mud or dust won't turn a figure yellow. Figures break down and react to other plastics as well so keeping them in plastic bags with no air holes and in a sealed container for example may result in yellowing, those figures are not dirty- they are degraded due to the plastic breaking down or reacting with other things. Edit- [i]I once put my mint han carbonite figure face down in his carbonite block, sealed him up in a zip lock for storing while I moved a million miles away from home, 2 years later his torso was completely yellow yet only the front! To me that says it all, the plastic of the block and the figure reacted in an environment with little to no air and the result was yellowing. The back of the figure was like new and like it was when I put it away..[/i] Second Edit- :lol: - [i]What about figures that have discoloured in the bubble? Torsos and limbs that are completely different colours, that's not dirt if the figure was sealed is it?[/i] [/QUOTE]
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