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Rx_79:
Thats when you know video game collecting has gotten extreme.
Rx_79:
What causes the plastic on nes carts to bubble like this?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bucky-OHare-Nintendo-Entertainment-System-1992-/322080971121?hash=item4afd859971:
sheep2001:

--- Quote from: Rx_79 on April 22, 2016, 02:31:35 PM ---What causes the plastic on nes carts to bubble like this?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bucky-OHare-Nintendo-Entertainment-System-1992-/322080971121?hash=item4afd859971:

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Surely can only be heat?
Arseen:

--- Quote from: sheep2001 on April 22, 2016, 02:39:00 PM ---
--- Quote from: Rx_79 on April 22, 2016, 02:31:35 PM ---What causes the plastic on nes carts to bubble like this?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bucky-OHare-Nintendo-Entertainment-System-1992-/322080971121?hash=item4afd859971:

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Surely can only be heat?

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No, moisture as in that is mold growing between the layers of the plastic.
wiggy:
It's not mold.  it's a result of moisture absorption, but the deformity remains ever after the moisture has evaporated.

We tried soaking some SNES cart shells in a bucket of water in a backer of water a couple of years back in order to make label removal easier (we've since found a way better method).  About half of them had the blisters the next morning. Even after we thoroughly dried them, the deformity remained.
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