bringing Jetfire back to life

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h1...g/IMG_2963.jpg

inspired by the info about the peroxiding transformers i thought i might attempt to fix my jetfire which has really yellowed lately. initial results are promising will post more pics when i am happy with the results and we get some more sunny days.

I am trying it with Dogfight in the original thread. Good luck to you!

here is a progress pic

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h1...g/IMG_2964.jpg

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Originally Posted by The_Damned

here is a progress pic

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h1...g/IMG_2964.jpg

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Awesome! That Tail piece looks almost white from being totally yellow!

Awesome results

wow
one question tho, how does the plastic feel? is it more brittle than the original?

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Originally Posted by blackie

wow
one question tho, how does the plastic feel? is it more brittle than the original?

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the feel and look of the plastic does Not change one little bit you would never know anything was down to it:cool:

Thats a massive change, I'm really surprised that it has fixed it up that much!

But as others have suggested, only time will tell if the chemical makeup of the plastic has been deteriorated to breaking point.

does it smell bad

Whee 'Transformer Science' time :) Nice results Damned! Hope those parts that are still a little yellow can improve further

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But as others have suggested, only time will tell if the chemical makeup of the plastic has been deteriorated to breaking point.

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Does anyone have a junker and the time to test the integrity of the bleached plastic? It would be interesting to know :)

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does it smell bad

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havent tried to smell it

Man I gotta dig through my collection just to find something yellow to try this on.

here is todays pic

the leg bits are for comparison's
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h1...g/IMG_2965.jpg

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does it smell bad

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Not as bad as some of the smells in his house :p

Seriously though good work dude.

would annyone know where these parts go in jetfire?cant remember where they go.

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h1...6/IMG_3016.jpg

I did some exploratory surgery to find out where that piece is located, I suspected one of the legs joints so I started it there and found it:

http://www.geocities.com/wow_frostwolf/fun/jetfire2.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/wow_frostwolf/fun/jetfire.jpg

The spring pushes the tip of that round tab into a hole on the side of the cockpit lower body so that the hip is kept in place in robot mode.

I hope this helps :)

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I did some exploratory surgery to find out where that piece is located, I suspected one of the legs joints so I started it there and found it:

The spring pushes the tip of that round tab into a hole on the side of the cockpit lower body so that the hip is kept in place in robot mode.

I hope this helps :)

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thanks kup for the life of me i couldnt remember where it went:)

Its good you didn't loose it though. Otherwise you'd end up with a hip swivelly Skyfire then :D

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thanks kup for the life of me i couldnt remember where it went:)

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Jetfire is a very nice figure to disassemble as everything is within easy reach and you don't need to pull apart most of the figure to remove a limb for example.

I can tell that the designer (Kwamori, I presume) took into account an 'assembly line' mentality while designing the Macross mold as you can assemble different parts independently and them slowly pull them together unlike modern toys such as Unicron in which you have to pull apart virtually the whole figure to remove one part of it.