firage wrote:

Or people who've done it before and know what a pain in the ass it is with certain items, and the difficulties/expenses incurred with small amounts of (legally restricted) chemicals that keep for a limited length of time. 😀

True... True.... For the legal part of that chemical aspect. I say up your's to the gouverment.
Retrobright is no more dangerous than clorine-based bleach. 😉
And that can be bought allmost everywere. It's when mixed with stuff like hydrochloric acid, it becomes dangerous.
That acid can be bought legally too. And even comes in half of the toilet cleaning stuff.

It's when doing gold extraction with acid, I might begin ask about the legal aspect of things.
Those are not harmless acitric components you know...

Hydrochloric Acid? We all have quite a lot of that sloshing around in our stomachs anyway, it is nasty stuff when used incorrectly. Also everything is radioactive and my rice has Arsenic in it. You can't really go a second in this world without being exposed to something. Seems to just be the nature of the universe.

Edit: WOOHH! 800th Post!

I'm understanding of chemicals but also hyper-paranoid of them. I wash my hands profusely when I've been messing with old computers for... some reason. At the very least I know what's rational and what isn't.
Plus washing your hands a lot isn't exactly the worst sin.

Washing your hands is common sense. I do that when I've handled something I'm not sure of or something which is potentially dirty.

The point I was making was more that if you were hell-bent on being a nuisance you could be, and that you can't really evade exposure to some pretty horrible substances even if they are well within tolerable levels. Hell, if you drink too much water you will get "Water Poisoning" and die, though this pretty much never happens to anyone who isn't already very sick because you start to feel very ill long before you reach that point.

Well... To get back on the track.
I would say that there are allways some rich dude, using all his time on making money, that just want to pay for things to get done.
And just want something ready playable to sweeten his valueable sparetime.

Thread title says, "would you pay for this?" and OP says "No" is an invalid answer? Like PCBONEZ said, he just doesn't want to hear it.

Unlike painting, this has no real value as the process is extremely simple and anyone could do it at home.

A better business idea would be to buy whatever you need to DYE large items as well as remove the yellowing beforehand because that way someone could walk up and say they want to dye their case face, CD-ROM faces, Floppy Disk faces, etc. to be the same color. This would take experimentation to get right, and lots of equipment and space that people don't generally have on a whim. Plus, you could cater to a lot more than the vintage computer crowd.