I used general purpose cleaning alcohol on the clear plastic door of a phone and it turned foggy with white residue. Please tell me what has happened and is there any way I can fix it and remove the white foggy residue from the clear plastic parts.
The term plastic simply refers to a great number of different polymers. For instance, one type of plastic holds up well against acids, another type will melt. One type, the type in the alcohol bottle will hold up to alcohol, another type such as your phone plastic wont, Always be carefull with plastics! Im sorry to say, you wont get that fog out of your plastic, it is imbedded into it now. When in doubt use simple soapy water. ABOVE ALL DO NOT USE ACETONE AS SOMEONE SUGGESTED ABOVE! IT WILL EAT THE PLASTIC! I have worked with acetone most of my life and there are very few plastics it gets along with!
This happened to a cup of mine. I painted a thin even coat of clear nail polish over the foggy white area and it turned the white foggy area clear again.
may be it has reacted with the outer coating of the plastic.u can use acetone for this purpose.
i think you didnt use alcohol ,but acetone instead because any kind of alcohols cant cos that,, acetones really attack plastic and cos the white and sometimes sticky solution so i think no way to recover that,,
The alcohol destabilized the outer layers of the plastic there isn't any thing that I know of that will fix it lets ask the mind of reason whats to do ...Mr. Hawkens? your verdict ?
