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| TDIRunner:
--- Quote ---followed by a light amount of 91%+ ipa --- End quote --- I love IPA, but I've never thought about using beer to clean my games. ;D |
| e_brugal:
--- Quote from: irvgotti452 on April 25, 2014, 06:43:40 PM ---I am against the use of magic eraser on video game related stuff unless it's absolutely necessary. It's sandpaper killing off the original texture and making it look odd on most occasions. Solvents too are a concern when just soap and water is sufficient (for surface jobs). --- End quote --- I have used magic eraser to clean plastic on cartridges and I never had any problem or neither had seen any degradation on texture, and I have clean markers and dirt on them |
| Ozzy_98:
I think it's mostly just a myth on how they work, some people think they work like sand paper. They work more like a pencil eraser from my understanding, the open cells of the foam trap the dirt and grime, where it's rolled away. It's not the carts you're sanding away, it's the erasers being sanded down by the cart, The water allows the dirt to lift up and enter the cells. Without some sort of mild solvent (like iso), some items are more attracted to the cart. I like using iso with magic erasers vs water for a much more pratical reason too, it dries much much faster, so less water damage. |
| e_brugal:
I haven't try it with isopropyl, but I will do it now to see how it works. |
| wiggy:
--- Quote from: Ozzy_98 on April 26, 2014, 10:07:28 AM ---I think it's mostly just a myth on how they work, some people think they work like sand paper. They work more like a pencil eraser from my understanding, the open cells of the foam trap the dirt and grime, where it's rolled away. It's not the carts you're sanding away, it's the erasers being sanded down by the cart, The water allows the dirt to lift up and enter the cells. Without some sort of mild solvent (like iso), some items are more attracted to the cart. I like using iso with magic erasers vs water for a much more pratical reason too, it dries much much faster, so less water damage. --- End quote --- It's an abrasive, no question. Not convinced? Take a magic eraser to any shiny plastic you have and watch the shine "magically" disappear. Think of them as 1000 grit sandpaper in a foam pad form. |
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