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CCM:
Uh oh!   I better check my Commodore 64's that I have stashed in the basement in the original styrofoam! 

SavannahLion:
Makes sense. Manufacturers can add all sorts of chemicals to PVC to change the properties. So the wire in your home will turn brittle, same for the Atari. It O2 likely had a different source for the wire and, ultimately, a different formulation and a different outcome.

On top of that mine was stored for ~17 years. what if after 25 the goo forms?

ark_ader:
I vacuum pack all my old stuff before it goes into the shed.  Wires go into the wire box and any Styrofoam gets put in the trash.

I, like Chad, have seen this especially in climate controlled component storage and could never figure out what caused it. 

Thanks for the heads up, about this.  :cheers:

ChadTower:

Now that I think more about it I have been working on a batch of g05s recently.  The anode cap and wire on all of them was covered in goo.  There's no styrofoam in there but I wonder what caused that insulation to soften so much.

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on January 25, 2011, 11:21:54 am ---I vacuum pack all my old stuff before it goes into the shed.  Wires go into the wire box and any Styrofoam gets put in the trash.

I, like Chad, have seen this especially in climate controlled component storage and could never figure out what caused it. 

Thanks for the heads up, about this.  :cheers:

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Must ask.... what's with the spoilers?

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