I was at a collectible show this weekend, and found someone selling core technobots for real cheap. I got Scattershot, Nosecone, Lightspeed, and a poor condition m Strafe (all w/o accessories) for under $30. Anyways, I would like to ask for some advice on how to restore them. 1st, I have seen pictures of them, where the lighter parts are super white. Mine have minor yellowing. I don't remember them in G1, but were the white parts always super white when they came out Also, how do you guys usually hunt for G1 accessories parts besides eBay?

I usually go to collectible conventions, they do not have to be Transformer specific, and better if they are not, since most of the time they are cheaper. I would actually print out a picture of the accessories I will be looking for. Transformer land.com is good for those.

 

 

As for cleaning up the bots, for me a little bleach goes a long way

looking on other message boards is a good idea too for those loose pieces. As far as restoring them, there's not much you can do for discoloration. there is a process of putting Oxy Clean into Hrydogen Peroxide in a glass dish, and leaving the figure in the the dish in the sun for a while to bring the white parts back to white. there's a thread someone else made about a yellowing jetfire in which i posted some links to the process. I've done it a few times to a G1 Ratchet and it works. There's also a link in that thread too for a way to remove stickers safely with them retaining their stickiness to be used again. have fun!

For looking up what accessories and other info come with a figure Botcollector.com and Unicron.com are good sites. For Unicron.com use the dates all the way to the right. For dirty or ruined sticker that I want to remove I use an adhesive remover from the auto parts store, use carefully, paint from the metal painted figures will come off a little. But this is a quick and easy way to remove unwanted stickers. Reprolabels.com sells reproduced sticker sheets of pretty much all figures. For overall cleaning, warm water and Q-tips work pretty good.

If it's just cleaning then water, q-tips, and a screwdriver are needed. I restored my whole G1 collection after heavy smoke damage from a house fire. All came out well and I got all the needed parts, weapons and accessories off of ebay. All came out well except Omega Supreme for which I messed up on the electronics and mechanical and now it does not work.

here's the thread i was pointing out earlier with some links to some great reading material.

 

Yellowing repair