I think the OP was trying to find a way to clean the yellowing from the mousepad, which is a fabric covering atop a dense foam rubber base, if I recall correctly. Since the image was transfered to the mousepad via a heat transfer process, I would suspect alcohol might actually damage it!
--JMH
--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, Scrapper Black Dragon <scrapperbd@...> wrote:
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> The plastic is possibly yellowed from Ultra Violet light, so the Rubbing Alcohol (dilute isopropyl alcohol) may remove the dirt and 'palm salsa', but unlikely to remove the yellowing; try carefully and give it a go. Probably best stuff is Plexus Plastic polish (for those in the USA) or Vuplex (Australia) - used to clean aircraft windscreen and motorbike visors and awesome on nearly everything plastic! Not cheap, but you don't need much and has dozens of uses - makes plastic super smooth (bike fairings, car paintwork, glass coffee tables), removes grime and even reduces/removes the yellowing from some plastics. Works by filling in the pores to make the surface smooth and provide a protective layer (so almost more like a wax) as opposed to traditional polishes which rely on wearing the surface down.
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> Thinking of using Plexus or Mr Sheen or similar products, reminds me of when someone had plastic-polished a 'tube style' slide in a playground - it was lethally fast and generated enough static to kill small animals... Can you imagine how the skunk sisters, or any other anthro fur would go down some of these slides? They'd have to install 'static discharge mats' at the bottom to prevent painful shocks as soon as they touched something earthed... I have an mental image of a static-charged walking fluff-ball... Most of us have seen the effect of a Van Der Graaf generator on someone with long hair - similar effect just from going down a playground slide! >_<
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> Scrapper, Black Dragon, fanatical user of plastic polish. O_o
Received on Thu Jul 14 2011 - 15:46:41 CDT