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    Quote Originally Posted by rbudrick
    Also, may of these plastics are yellowed all the way through. I'd bet if you cracked some of the plastic after de-yellowing, you would see the middle still yellow on some items.

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    In my experience I've found that this is not the case at least with NES, SNES and PC-Engines.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rbudrick
    It would seem you are taking off a layer of plastic when you do this, as the plastic is yellowed as a result of an oxidation process (like when metal rusts, only this is on plastic).
    But if that's the case, then how was the logo on my PC Engine untouched?

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    Yeah, that has got to be false unless I've mistaken something. Plastic does not "breathe", so only the surface oxidizes.

    I predict the yellow SNES will turn white, like GH said.

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    My opinion is that this does not work on the SNES. I left mine in it for 2 days, and the only thing that it did was make the yellow cleaner. Here's the after pictures:

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    Thats really a shame.

    EDIT: It actually looks a bit whiter, at least on the picture.
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    Yea, it is a tiny bit white, but not much. I wouldn't go through the smell just for that little bit of difference.
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    Yeah, that has got to be false unless I've mistaken something. Plastic does not "breathe", so only the surface oxidizes.
    Well there was some pretty heated threads about this before. It was pretty conclusively proven that the yellowing is due to oxidization in almost all cases (99%, I'd guess). Some folks have broken their NESs and SNESs and it was yellow all the way through. I'm not sure what you mean by "breathe" but oxygen will bond with whatever it feels like. Plastic is generally very porous and facilitates this.

    And to those who say it is due to cigarette smoke or sunlight, this does not account for the nonsmokers that left their SNES or NESin a box in a closet, only to take it out years later and find it yellow.

    As for the logo, I would bet that the bleach doesn't affect that material, or only did minimally.

    With the PC Engine, I believe it is a different plastic and therefore did not yellow all the way through.

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    i know the snes plastic turns to shit during the yellowing process.. i dropped my yellow snes about one foot, and it cracked open a huge gaping hole.. the plastic has gone extremely brittle.

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    Grat thread, great discovery. It's a shame that there may not be a method be de-yellowing an SNES case. But luckily my SNES isn't yellow at all! What release of the SNES did I get that just doesn;t happen to turn yellow?

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    Sad to hear it didn't work out for the SNES.

    I still get a smile when I see my shiny white Duo-R.
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