Alcohol turned clear plastic foggy white, What should I do?

Question

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.

Answer 1

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!

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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 ?

Answer 4

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,,

Answer 5

may be it has reacted with the outer coating of the plastic.u can use acetone for this purpose.

Answer 6

Sure it wasn't acetone? Throw it away, or just live with it. Ain't going back.

Answer 7

if it is a cell phone you need to go to one of their service depts and ask them what to do. before you mess up your phone further. IF it is a land line phone buy a new one they aren't that expensive

Answer 8

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