“… so that didn’t work and now I’m going to use some plutonium…”

That thunder cat toy is pretty expensive

my worry is always that washing could ruing springs, screws and other interior metal pieces.

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.

Baking soda and vinegar cancel eachother out so it's basically just the water n dish soap cleaning them.

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

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.

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!!!!

@ThisBetterHome

2 жыл бұрын

No bleeding at all!

Iam sure your lino (thundercat) toy had electronics in it. The eyes used to light up with the battery ring that came with it

@ThisBetterHome

Жыл бұрын

Omg, you may be right. I'm having flashbacks of this. Sadly, we have lost Lion-o or I'd check!

I would think the urethane clear coat much more dangerous than casted plastic

Maybe use all purpse degreaser spray?

vinegar on baking soda cancel the cleaning effect you have to use one or the other

I think they should re-title the video to "Exploring How to Clean Vintage Toys On my Own Without Googling".

@ThisBetterHome

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha!

Do you know what tô do with dryed rubber in toys? I need to soften a rubber in a moving part

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.

@ThisBetterHome

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

@bigeast4195

6 ай бұрын

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.

Good sharing... How about sticker, im worried the water will remove the sticker

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? 👀💕

@ThisBetterHome

2 жыл бұрын

I think it's She-Ra!

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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.

@natashavanilla8170

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@PunchinTreezMC

Жыл бұрын

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..

@Icyluigibros456

Жыл бұрын

THIS VID WAS PAINFUL TO WATCH

@Leelo1019

Жыл бұрын

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

@tieryana

Жыл бұрын

@@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).