You Guys Aren't Going To Believe This...

Anybody remember a while back when I talked about that box of systems I got at a garage sale? Well, I finally got around to opening up and touching up the NES that came with it... As it turns out, it's a wonder it ran at all.

I kept finding what appeared to be crumbs of .

So now I've got to head out and grab some circuit board cleaner and an anti-static wristband... What the hell were those idiots doing? Using the NES as a dinner plate?!

Can we maybe lay off the "people are stupid" threads?

the NES is/was a TOY.

A TOY made for children.

children are uninformed about electronics.

you know you fed your G.I. Joe "action figures" cookies, and played with them in the mud.

you act like it's a crime against humanity that the connector was never replaced... I've never replaced a connector in any of my consoles. Does that make me a terrorist?

besides, you paid what? $20 for the box? god forbid you have to do a little cleaning...

Hmmm.....I can understand your point, but, in all fairness, if i had got it so cheap I would have expected a few problems.

yeah, ive had experiences like that too. but not quite as strange as that. nes luke is right, though. couldnt you lay off the griping just a little bit? its just that youv done a lot of threads like this.

And, for your information, I never fed my GI Joes cookies. But I did blow them up with small firecrackers. Does that count?

LOL. My friend put one in the microwave when I was little, and it caught on fire, and it kinda..."exploded". It was the funnest thing ever. His mom got mad at him. Anyways, you got the NES at a GARAGE sale. People sell stuff there that they don't want, or don't know what it is. It was probably in the basement for 10 years. At least you got the system. With some cleaning, and love, you got a new system .

But griping is what I love... awright, I'll lighten up. No more whiny threads.

Yeah, I actually just went out and got the stuff I needed. Having trouble getting the "soda" off the circuit board... not sure that it soda. I'm thankful the games were in good condition, though I think a dog got ahold of Donkey Kong.

Flux Cleaner and a firm toothbrush will fix that.. You can get Flux Cleaner (Used to clean solder connections) at most electronic supply stores.

when i got my nes, the inside of it looked and smelled as if a drunken chain smoker had thrown up on it and the controller. the controller was useless, it never got properly cleaned up, there was enough alcohol in whatever found it's way in there to melt through the cable on it, and change the structure of the rubber button contacts enough to stop them springing back.

and youre complaining about some crumbs and soft drink? this thing had the most awful smell.. i cleaned it up with eucalyptus oil.. that cured the smell in no time, and made my room smell like the local second hand games dealers store, they use the same stuff there to get stickers and marker off.. that and tea tree oil work for me, but tea tree oil smells a bit crap, so go the eucalyptus.

anyway, my point is, stop complaining.

Leave Uber Newb alone already. You guys are griping more about his griping than he was actually griping (say that three times fast). And I know how he feels. A little dirtyness is to be expected, but sometimes it goes beyond that into the realm of the absurd. I've bought games at flea markets that looked like they were used to scoop up dog poop.

I am guilty of abusing my game systems as a child.. I got mad at Skate or Die one day and turned my controllers into a bolo cord... I couldn't tell you how many NES and SNES controllers I've broken in my day. Street Fighter 2010 II was the end of many SNES controllers.. Curse that damn M BISON!!!! LMAO.

its just that hes done other threads like this. but he did apologize, and he hasnt done any more.

At this point, I'm more curious than angry. I don't mind the cleaning, and I definitely never minded the price, but chocolate and soda in a game system is rather strange, even for a kid.

Carelessness is all right (though I do love ranting about it), but the fact that it was deep inside the system, with a big puddle of some liquid on the circuit board... what the kid doing? I at least would have thought that if he had spilled soda, it would have run and leave some sort of trail, but it's just a big blotch. Did he open it up? How old was the kid? I hope he didn't do it while the system was plugged in...

Sorry, that I didn't mean to gripe about. I just meant that I was figuring it needed to be replaced.

And, for your information, I never fed my GI Joes cookies. But I did blow them up with small firecrackers. Does that count?

I've had an interest in making old VCRs work, it's pretty amazing the number of chunks of sandwich i've seen in some. I'm sure SOME have even be done by adults (perhaps intoxicated adults?
As far as making VCRs work, it's mostly a matter of replacing all the rubber parts (idler tire, pinch roller, all belts) and lots and lots of cleaning, so not much different than NES's (except the rubber thing, but the NES has the 72 pin connector problem so...)
You can bet an old NES will have a connector problem and you can bet an old VCR will have shitty rubber parts. Anyhow, to get back on track...

As a electronic technican I often find undesirable things inside electronics.One time when I was working on a projection TV at work, I had popped the back off to find to my horror that a dead rat was in it.. Very fossilized I might add. The coolant that sits on top the CRTs is basically anti freeze and the rat had chewed the gasket and drank some.. Well anti freeze will crystalize your insides. So the rat died and anti freeze leaked all over the PCB shorting it out. That had to be the grossest thing I've ever found inside a piece of electronics other than a family of roaches that made it's home inside a JVC home theater system.. That was plain nasty.

Thats crazy. If we had a , I would use it. And, I though spider webs in a NES game was weird.