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ill post a list of harmful substances

Eating next to them is one thing, I have bot's all over and it's unavoidable. But cooking smoke, especialy if it's something greasy can seriously yellow plastic or warp paintor foil finishes.

Hence my kitchen is my one bot free room, and I have doors and curtains as a buffer for the others.

Now I use to live in one room myself, and during that time I used sealed display cases and kept clear shower curtains around my better shelves.

It's work, but hey, if a trip to the dollar store for some clear shower curtains and a roll of packing tape will keep your bots safe, do it. It's not like you can't part the curtain and still get to the figures you wanna use

some house hold items that will affect your tf's

1. salt: degrades clear window plastic and rivit joints(knee, elbow, sholder, hip, ect..)

2. greece: very hard on ball joints(if left in ball joints the rest of the extremidy will flail easyly

3. cocacola: will eventually eat away at plastics. good on rust from titanium series.

4. milk: whitens rubber

5. boiling water: will deform plastics slowly but not likely. will peel stickers

6. ammonia cleaners: NA

7. putty: will stick if left on

8. sugar, suryps, and other sugary substances: will gumm up joints and make plastic areas stickey.

9: coffie (hot): discolors red, orange, yellow, light green, and light blue surfaces.

bigbadbarron wrote:some house hold items that will affect your tf's

1. salt: degrades clear window plastic and rivit joints(knee, elbow, sholder, hip, ect..)

2. greece: very hard on ball joints(if left in ball joints the rest of the extremidy will flail easyly

3. cocacola: will eventually eat away at plastics. good on rust from titanium series.

4. milk: whitens rubber

5. boiling water: will deform plastics slowly but not likely. will peel stickers

6. ammonia cleaners: NA

7. putty: will stick if left on

8. sugar, suryps, and other sugary substances: will gumm up joints and make plastic areas stickey.

9: coffie (hot): discolors red, orange, yellow, light green, and light blue surfaces.

Dam, now that's detailed! so I ask why is ammonia an NA? I try to keep any cleanser away from my figures, but sometimes use alittle diluted rubbing alchohol on a q-tip to clean them.

If you know please share, am I actualy harming my figures by doing that, if so, what do you recommend?

At first I thugh this was called "Eating your Tf's"
And I thought of Transform-A-snacks.
Anyhow, how have you learned all this bigbadbarron?
Hopefully not experience.

Zombie Starscream wrote:

Fussion wrote:

Bonger wrote:

General Magnus wrote:I live in a small room currently and i often dine next to my tfs. Will the fumes of the food be dangerous to the paint and stickers?

Taking this a litle far? What about smog, pollution, pollen, UV rays bouncing around your room..... I mean, not smoking around them is probably a good idea. Not displaying them in your kitchen is probably smart. I think anything beyond tht is just parannoia.

May I add bathroom due to humidity caused by showers Unless you shower with your Tf's you might have bigger issues than losing stickers

I would want to wash those Tfs if they were anywhere near the potty for any length of time...Ewww

Not bots, but I have some plastic gag figures in my bathroom and they hold up fine

Farting near transformers makes the paint peel. Do not go near them after eating tacos, chili, and anything that contains large amount of beans, caggage or legumes.

Sunstar wrote:Farting near transformers makes the paint peel. Do not go near them after eating tacos, chili, and anything that contains large amount of beans, caggage or legumes.

That is useful in more then one way.

bigbadbarron wrote:2. greece: very hard on ball joints(if left in ball joints the rest of the extremidy will flail easyly

Do we have any greek members here ? They should know about that.

Liege Evilmus wrote:

bigbadbarron wrote:some house hold items that will affect your tf's

1. salt: degrades clear window plastic and rivit joints(knee, elbow, sholder, hip, ect..)

2. greece: very hard on ball joints(if left in ball joints the rest of the extremidy will flail easyly

3. cocacola: will eventually eat away at plastics. good on rust from titanium series.

4. milk: whitens rubber

5. boiling water: will deform plastics slowly but not likely. will peel stickers

6. ammonia cleaners: NA

7. putty: will stick if left on

8. sugar, suryps, and other sugary substances: will gumm up joints and make plastic areas stickey.

9: coffie (hot): discolors red, orange, yellow, light green, and light blue surfaces.

Dam, now that's detailed! so I ask why is ammonia an NA? I try to keep any cleanser away from my figures, but sometimes use alittle diluted rubbing alchohol on a q-tip to clean them.

If you know please share, am I actualy harming my figures by doing that, if so, what do you recommend?

i put NA because there isn't any visual damage to the transformers. although soaking a transformer in alcohol for more than 4 hours will be harmfull

Sherade wrote:At first I thugh this was called "Eating your Tf's"
And I thought of Transform-A-snacks.
Anyhow, how have you learned all this bigbadbarron?
Hopefully not experience.

Actually

i learned this all from my armada figures.

oh and heres another

10. chocclate cake frosting: will disscolor transformer plastic to the point of white

General Magnus wrote:I live in a small room currently and i often dine next to my tfs. Will the fumes of the food be dangerous to the paint and stickers?

Couldn't help but laugh.
One of the funniest things I've ever read.

Creature SH wrote:

bigbadbarron wrote:2. greece: very hard on ball joints(if left in ball joints the rest of the extremidy will flail easyly

Do we have any greek members here ? They should know about that.

OMG, I am dieing laughing...