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UK General Cleaning Forum => General Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Roland S on April 01, 2014, 11:18:56 am

Title: removing UV yellowing from plastic/acrylic ?
Post by: Roland S on April 01, 2014, 11:18:56 am

hi

this is for me personally not a job i'm doing. i'm finally getting round to fitting my new bathroom suite. it's a shower bath and where i have kept the bath panel partially in sunlight for a couple of years some of it has gone yellow  :'(. i've tried hypo and also tried polishing it out with brasso and also farecla g3 and an electric polishing machine but it won't shift it. it's an odd shaped shower bath and i can't get a replacement bath panel anywhere. so if i can't clean it off i'm going to have to buy another bath, but before i do i thought i would check on here incase anyone knows any tricks for removing yellowing (UV damage) from white plastic?

any advice appreciated, thanks in advance

Title: Re: removing UV yellowing from plastic/acrylic ?
Post by: Mitchellmoxo on April 01, 2014, 11:43:23 am

fine wet and dry sandpaper??

Title: Re: removing UV yellowing from plastic/acrylic ?
Post by: Roland S on April 01, 2014, 07:34:20 pm

thanks i might give it a try

Title: Re: removing UV yellowing from plastic/acrylic ?
Post by: BDCS on April 01, 2014, 08:07:17 pm

I did a broken bath panel last week - I sprayed it with etching primer and then Ford diamond white. Like new now

Title: Re: removing UV yellowing from plastic/acrylic ?
Post by: Matt Gibson on April 01, 2014, 09:14:15 pm

Quote from: BDCS on April 01, 2014, 08:07:17 pm

I did a broken bath panel last week - I sprayed it with etching primer and then Ford diamond white. Like new now

Can also be used on old rusty transit vans..

Title: Re: removing UV yellowing from plastic/acrylic ?
Post by: Roland S on April 01, 2014, 10:44:37 pm

Quote from: BDCS on April 01, 2014, 08:07:17 pm

I did a broken bath panel last week - I sprayed it with etching primer and then Ford diamond white. Like new now

it did cross my mind about spraying it, might give that a go then cheers

Title: Re: removing UV yellowing from plastic/acrylic ?
Post by: BDCS on April 02, 2014, 06:23:40 am

The newer rusty Transits are frozen white