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I think the best way to remove them is to paint over with a matching color for the pony. But it will not remove the problem, just hide it.Plus I've got a pony that came to me with transparent nail on a cancer spot, I don't know if it helps, but that's something that is done too. Maybe found a nail the same color than your pony?
So... I soaked the mold spots in white vinegar. Should the fungus be dead now? Can I just paint over it and be sure it won't spread?
Quote from: Nemesis on May 18, 2017, 06:21:21 AMSo... I soaked the mold spots in white vinegar. Should the fungus be dead now? Can I just paint over it and be sure it won't spread?This is an EXCELLENT information on mold spots here: http://www.mlppreservationproject.com/body.html#CancerI met the girl who gathered this information recently and the whole site is fantastic. But one thing to note is the last paragraph about the spreading of mold spots. It's not contagious, like going from one pony to another. It's more about what kind of environment these are kept in. Heat and humidity are big triggers. So painting a dead mold spot probably won't help if the pony is still kept in a bad environment.
No, that won't be the end of it.Bad storage conditions will speed up the process, but no matter where you keep your collection, plastic deteriorates. High heat and humidity just makes it worse. Adding more chemicals (including paint) can also make it worse. Honestly the best thing you can do is just leave them be - there's a common theme in the museum conservation field - do as little as possible, entropy always wins in the end. G1's are 30+ years old in many cases and they're going to look it, considering they were made as children's toys and not expected to last forever.
My first attempt to remove was dissection, and I discovered that they do in fact go all the way through the plastic....I was left, in one case, with a paper-thin amount of pony material remaining. My next attempt was boiling for over an hour which has a drastic effect on the pony overall depending on which pony. I was able to completely whiten the spots on Fire Chief and Bright Eyes, on Bright Eyes the spot began to darken again slightly a year later.The extended boiling process hurts the pony's color, and Fire Chief was yellowed but whitens right up in peroxide sunfade. Some ponies have their color ruined pretty quick by boiling. Your mileage may vary.No matter what anyone tells you, it is not established 100% whether cancer is biological or chemical breakdown or a combination (where for example leaking plasticizer/UV treatment/degradation products/contamination etc might feed a particular organism). While its perfect circular shape does LOOK biological, no hard data exists establishing whether it can be killed or what chemically is happening.I was very optimistic about the boiling methods but when the spot on my Bright Eyes began to creep back in a year after it disappeared, I haven't further pursued my studies of it...so far.The only things that have been established to a point of consensus are 1) that nothing has been proven to stop it entirely, and 2) that no confirmed evidence exists of it spreading from one pony to another.Good luck!!
IIRC peroxide will bleach out some pony hair colors, so be careful.Are the glitter symboled ponies ones with gold symbols, like Sunbeam, Starshine, or Pinwheel? They are prone to "symbol rust." They get brownish stuff (probably mold or something) that appears around their symbols. Usually in round spots, which makes me think that they're a kind of mold colony or something. I'm not sure if it's the same stuff as traditional age spots.As far as "body" age spots, I had a Sunbeam who had one age spot when I got them. Despite my attempts to sterilize the spots, they still spread like crazy. (I was not able to boil them because of the glitter symbol though.)