Cleaning up yellowed/grubby plastic?

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Vintage" == Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> writes:

 Vintage> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Bob Shannon wrote:
 >> Smooth plastic on early prototypes indicates 'soft mould' plastic,
 >> essentially an early prototype process for plastic parts, prior to
 >> committing to an expensive mould that is very difficult to alter
 >> for last-minute changes.

 Vintage> So is the texturing on the final mold there for texturing or
 Vintage> as a by-product of the molding process?

For texturing.  The mold process is pretty precise -- if the designers
wanted smooth plastic, you would have seen smooth plastic.  It's not
like sand-casting of cast iron...

     paul