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Cleaning? How Do You Do?
FFXIK:
--- Quote from: KMSoulja on May 04, 2013, 12:38:46 AM ---Does anybody here think that 91% isopropyl alcohol dries up and damages the plastic on game cartridges?
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Been using 91% for a while and I have yet to have any problems with it.
wiggy:
--- Quote from: Lord Karnage on April 30, 2013, 10:33:27 PM ---Do you guys know how to get rid of the resurfacing compound residue in the middle of a disc without damaging the disc further?
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Warm water.
BadChad:
I have a pawn shop not too far from me that resurfaces all of their disc based games before they sell them. Most of the time they have that residue left behind in the center ring. You dont even need to use water. One wipe with my finger around the ring and it always comes right off for me.
wiggy:
So, in light of he recent concern over the use of Brasso, I've been experimenting with other things. What I've found that works quite excellently is Tarn-X. So far I've used I to clean a few rather corroded carts that were in my junk/trade/donor cart bins with no side effect of any sort. It also requires nearly zero effort to be effective. Dip Q-tip, wipe contacts gently, corrosion literally dissolves, but good contact material remains.
I wanna give a more thorough testing before I wholeheartedly recommend it, but initial results seem very promising.
FritzWhite:
--- Quote from: wiggy on May 04, 2013, 02:29:20 PM ---So, in light of he recent concern over the use of Brasso, I've been experimenting with other things. What I've found that works quite excellently is Tarn-X. So far I've used I to clean a few rather corroded carts that were in my junk/trade/donor cart bins with no side effect of any sort. It also requires nearly zero effort to be effective. Dip Q-tip, wipe contacts gently, corrosion literally dissolves, but good contact material remains.
I wanna give a more thorough testing before I wholeheartedly recommend it, but initial results seem very promising.
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This is just for the metal contacts, right? You don't use this on the plastic? I've had good luck so far with WD-40 for cleaning contacts.