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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

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.

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

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

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