Editing Retrobrite (section)

== What goes wrong ==

* '''Streaking and blotching.''' Uneven cream thickness, or the cream drying in patches. The ten-year test found streaking and blotching still visible a decade later, so this is not necessarily a defect you can re-treat away.<ref name="tenyear" />
* '''Chalky or matte surface.''' The oxidiser attacks the surface as well as the colour. Textured mouldings lose their texture.
* '''Brittleness.''' ABS that is already degraded is being further oxidised. Screw bosses and thin clip fingers are what break afterwards.
* '''Re-yellowing.''' Expect it. The treated Dreamcast surfaces re-yellowed past the untreated ones within ten years.<ref name="tenyear" />
* '''Damage to anything that is not bare ABS.''' Painted legends, printed labels, silk-screened keycaps, rubber feet, light pipes and adhesive-backed badges are all attacked. Remove them, or do not treat the part.