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It does get a few hours of sunlight in the morning, and I do have a portable air conditioner in the room to keep the temps stable. I suspect that could have the same effect? Hmm.. thank you for the leads I very much appreciate it
The air conditioner wouldn't be an issue unless it happens to have a built-in ozone air purifier and pointed directly at the model. Ozone will dissipate and react fairly quick, so it's generally not an issue. (There is a huge difference between an ozone generator and an AC unit that might happen to generate a bit of ozone.)
The sunlight would have to be as direct as UV doesn't reflect very well off of walls and such. (~75%-90% loss) If you model wasn't directly in a sunbeam, it likely wasn't the problem.
Thanks for tolerating my troubleshooting for a bit. It would just suck if you had something you wanted to display disintegrate again. While we can't fix a factory problem, we can possibly eliminate other problems, is my thinking.
With plastics, it's UV exposure, specific chemical fumes or gasses that cause fast degradation so its easy to troubleshoot. ( ... unless it was an underlying plastic formula problem or the nature of the type of plastic.)