As somewhat of a retro '90’s-2000’s electronics collecting nerd, this stuff is the bane of my existence.
It seems like in the early 2000’s there were only three types of finishes applied to electronics products:
- TPE “soft touch” coatings that turn into snot after a few years
- Crappy metallized silver paint that starts flaking off immediately
- White or Bondi Blue plastic under a clear acrylic layer trying to ape an early iMac or iPod, which gets dirt trapped between the layers and then turns yellow
You just can’t win.
tal@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Oh, man, yeah, I’d forgotten about that.
Hah, I avoided those. I think I had one translucent device at one point.
That being said, from the 1970s and 1980s, you had all those light beige things that yellowed It wasn’t the worst kind of aging, and it was treatable, but there were so many items whose age was visible.
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