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Cleaning? How Do You Do?
Dravenae:
Here's a pic of a game in a bag, and a picture of the actual bag. I just flipped the excess around the back and sealed it with tape.
Spoonman:
How do you guys go about cleaning your controllers? Specifically NES and SNES, and I want to clean up the grime down in the D-Pad. Do you open them up? Don't have one handy at the moment, but they look like they take a smaller phillips head. Anyway, what do you say?
Arseen:
--- Quote from: Spoonman on August 02, 2013, 04:15:21 PM ---How do you guys go about cleaning your controllers? Specifically NES and SNES, and I want to clean up the grime down in the D-Pad. Do you open them up? Don't have one handy at the moment, but they look like they take a smaller phillips head. Anyway, what do you say?
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Yep, open with small philips head and give the plastic parts good leaning in soap water.
Dravenae:
Both NES and SNES controllers use philips head screwdrivers as Arseen has said. I recently took apart all of my controllers to give them a good old cleaning. I just used warm water, washing up liquid, and an old tooth brush. They all came up like new. If you want to give them a shine, then WD40 is the way to go. Just make sure to give it a good wipe down after. I wouldn't recommend using WD40 on PS3 controllers, I think Sony used a different material as opposed to PS1 and PS2 controllers, apparently it doesn't react well to the WD40, but everything else is good. To clean the tracks on the PCB (if dirty) use Isopropyl Alcohol 99%, if the PCB is dusty, just use canned air.
Spoonman:
Thanks! ;D Gonna try to clean some up this weekend.