ons 2020-09-02 klockan 13:46 -0700 skrev Chuck Guzis via cctalk: > On 9/2/20 12:02 PM, Rico Pajarola via cctalk wrote: > > I have a friend who is a Materials Science Technologist and > > specializes in > > injection molded plastics. So... basically the same thing that's in > > computer cases (even though he doesn't deal with computer cases). I > > grilled > > him at length on this topic, and he insisted that the brittleness > > with age > > (and UV light) is expected and irreversible. Basically, the plastic > > softeners are off-gassing, and there's no way to put them back in. > > > > I'm still hoping for a happier second opinion, though I'm not > > holding my > > breath. > >
> > It's a very well-known problem among the museum conservation crowd > --and > with no practical solution. > > For a discussion, WikiPedia is pretty informative: > Textilmuseet (textiles and clothes museum in Borås, Sweden) have a number of items which was haute couture in the 70s and 80s. Some of them was done in a plastic which today is basically an awful mess... And so they are basically forced to thwrow away items which cost them a fair bit to buy.
