Cleaning Old Tan Parts?

[mikedealer]

so i have a "milk crate" of parts for the old rc10, most of them look like this or worse.
http://i19.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/9b/e6/4c90_1.JPG

Any proven cleaning methods to clean the crud off these parts and make em look like new? someone said if i just scrub the living crap out of them they will look new, someone said i can dye black and they will look alright, any ideas? i would like to keep stock color or close
thanks

[badhoopty]

it seems once the white starts to discolor it will always be somewhat stained. you can brighten them up a little however.

you will get alot of different answers/techniques here, this topic has been discussed before but maybe this time we can keep the posts on topic and just make it a sticky.

how i do it:

i scrub parts in soap and water with a vegetable brush and also clean out the hingpin holes with qtip that have most the cotton removed off the tips.

then i put the parts in a plastic coffee can and add LOTS of soft-scrub bathroom cleaner, bleach, and really hot tap water. i mix it all up real good and scrub living crap out of all the parts while they are in the can with a long handled vegetable brush. i let the parts just kinda hang out in there for quite a while, a day or two. the softscrub particles will settle down onto the parts like silt, and i just keep mixing it all with the veg brush to move/scrub the parts around and let the softscrub silt settle on different spots.

the past couple times i've cleaned up white parts i used rit color remover after the softscrub soak session, it may just be my eyes having a reaction to how bad the stuff smells and the fumes of it, but they seem to get a little whiter than just soaking alone.


dyeing black is easy, dyeing colors is a little tricky since different types/sizes of plastic will all color at different rates, some pretty quickly.


i read somewhere online that a certain type of draincleaner can bleach parts pretty good. if that is true or not i dunno, but i may try it out sometime.

[badhoopty]

btw dont leave the fiberglass shock towers in the bleach too long, it will start to eat them up.

[mikedealer]

ya im bleaching some broken parts right now to see how bleach will clean them, scrubbing works ok with some soft scrub but the parts still are dark tan/dirty looking

[20SMOKE]

a buddy of mine just cleand his parts with bleachwhite tire cleaner with great results