My sister used to have a pink telephone that played music and she would chew on the buttons and the music would be at a higher pitch and I don’t know how my mom fixed it. My brother had a play wrist band that would make noise and I used to chew on it and every time I would get a spanking when I was a kid I used to take that thing out from that bracelet and chew on it until it made that higher pitch sound but then it got broken. I was having kidney pain at that time and they were planing on kidney surgery and I was 7 when this would happen
I just realized why my legos and action figures all have brown sticky residue in the corners of them and stuff. It’s because they’re made from petroleum oils, and that’s a tar forming. I don’t know if it is tar, but I went to the beach a few months ago and there was a ton of tar everywhere. They feel almost identical.
Getting rid of stickiness is really hard on old action figures. I've found a soak in a strong dishwash solution for 24 hrs, followed by a wipe with lighter fluid once dry, does a pretty good job. I've heard a product called Goo Gone does wonders, but I don't have access to it.
That "stickiness" is due to years of airborne particulates (most likely mold) getting to, landing on and eating away. Mold is the destroyer of worlds and has absolutely no problem getting anywhere. Once the damage starts, there's no fixing it. In these cases anyway.
ALLLL Ay old transformers from my childhood need a good looking after lol.. Regrettably some even have a good layer of gray mold on them :(. Hoping this will help if not do the trick. G1's from my uncles days to 2000's and movie transformers.. such a big part of memory and would feel so much better if I can clean them up.. the last year in the damp frigid bunk is what did most of the molding but I think just overtime they accumulated the wear. Anyway, perfect video on the subject I happed to look up today... Stay vintage kids.
Are you crazy? You just took vintage highly collectable toys worth quite a bit of money and sprayed clear coat on them. Are you serious? You should seriously NOT be recommending this to ANYONE at all.
Not just that, the video basically keeps summing up 'this doesn't work'. And I can't imagine this does not affect any of the moving part, or rubber bands inside most of these figures. GI Joe and He man have rubber bands in the legs, and Thundercats all have working mechanisms. Let's not even start about possible stickers being on the figures or other parts.
If you're cleaning them for your own personal benefit, clear coat is fine, but for Plastic, you'd want to make sure that you're only using Enamal... If you're using anything else, it will more than likely eat the plastic, if you used something say, like lacquer..
These toys aren't worth anything. They have been opened from the box and played with. Only the figures left, unopened, in the original packaging could be worth money. But this doesn't devalue or increase the value of already worthless toys
@@Leelo1019 It's obvious you don't know anything about the value of these. While true that a handful of these aren't worth more than $10-$15 each. Some of these are worth hundreds and even can even reach a few thousand (LOSE).
my friend you are awesome brother! i have older figures from Japan PVC that are sticky and many colors of 'paint' .did you have any paint mess as far as colors bleeding, mixing? thank you so much for your excellent help and input!!!!
7:58 when I noticed the female toy right away I thought she was one of the McDonald’s Barbie’s. Upon closer look she seems like a super hero. I’m curious who is she? 👀💕
“… so that didn’t work and now I’m going to use some plutonium…”
Baking soda and vinegar cancel eachother out so it's basically just the water n dish soap cleaning them.
I think they should re-title the video to "Exploring How to Clean Vintage Toys On my Own Without Googling".
Hahaha!
My sister used to have a pink telephone that played music and she would chew on the buttons and the music would be at a higher pitch and I don’t know how my mom fixed it. My brother had a play wrist band that would make noise and I used to chew on it and every time I would get a spanking when I was a kid I used to take that thing out from that bracelet and chew on it until it made that higher pitch sound but then it got broken. I was having kidney pain at that time and they were planing on kidney surgery and I was 7 when this would happen
That thunder cat toy is pretty expensive
my worry is always that washing could ruing springs, screws and other interior metal pieces.
Iam sure your lino (thundercat) toy had electronics in it. The eyes used to light up with the battery ring that came with it
Omg, you may be right. I'm having flashbacks of this. Sadly, we have lost Lion-o or I'd check!
I just realized why my legos and action figures all have brown sticky residue in the corners of them and stuff. It’s because they’re made from petroleum oils, and that’s a tar forming. I don’t know if it is tar, but I went to the beach a few months ago and there was a ton of tar everywhere. They feel almost identical.
Getting rid of stickiness is really hard on old action figures. I've found a soak in a strong dishwash solution for 24 hrs, followed by a wipe with lighter fluid once dry, does a pretty good job. I've heard a product called Goo Gone does wonders, but I don't have access to it.
Thanks for the tip!
That "stickiness" is due to years of airborne particulates (most likely mold) getting to, landing on and eating away.
Mold is the destroyer of worlds and has absolutely no problem getting anywhere. Once the damage starts, there's no fixing it. In these cases anyway.
Goo Gone rocks!
@@bigeast4195that’s not accurate. Has nothing to do with mold. It’s the plastic actually breaking done just like he said in the video.
I would think the urethane clear coat much more dangerous than casted plastic
vinegar on baking soda cancel the cleaning effect you have to use one or the other
ALLLL Ay old transformers from my childhood need a good looking after lol.. Regrettably some even have a good layer of gray mold on them :(. Hoping this will help if not do the trick. G1's from my uncles days to 2000's and movie transformers.. such a big part of memory and would feel so much better if I can clean them up.. the last year in the damp frigid bunk is what did most of the molding but I think just overtime they accumulated the wear. Anyway, perfect video on the subject I happed to look up today... Stay vintage kids.
Are you crazy? You just took vintage highly collectable toys worth quite a bit of money and sprayed clear coat on them. Are you serious? You should seriously NOT be recommending this to ANYONE at all.
Not just that, the video basically keeps summing up 'this doesn't work'. And I can't imagine this does not affect any of the moving part, or rubber bands inside most of these figures. GI Joe and He man have rubber bands in the legs, and Thundercats all have working mechanisms. Let's not even start about possible stickers being on the figures or other parts.
If you're cleaning them for your own personal benefit, clear coat is fine, but for Plastic, you'd want to make sure that you're only using Enamal... If you're using anything else, it will more than likely eat the plastic, if you used something say, like lacquer..
THIS VID WAS PAINFUL TO WATCH
These toys aren't worth anything. They have been opened from the box and played with. Only the figures left, unopened, in the original packaging could be worth money. But this doesn't devalue or increase the value of already worthless toys
@@Leelo1019 It's obvious you don't know anything about the value of these. While true that a handful of these aren't worth more than $10-$15 each. Some of these are worth hundreds and even can even reach a few thousand (LOSE).
my friend you are awesome brother! i have older figures from Japan PVC that are sticky and many colors of 'paint' .did you have any paint mess as far as colors bleeding, mixing? thank you so much for your excellent help and input!!!!
No bleeding at all!
Maybe use all purpse degreaser spray?
7:58 when I noticed the female toy right away I thought she was one of the McDonald’s Barbie’s. Upon closer look she seems like a super hero. I’m curious who is she? 👀💕
I think it's She-Ra!
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Good sharing... How about sticker, im worried the water will remove the sticker
Do you know what tô do with dryed rubber in toys? I need to soften a rubber in a moving part