Originally posted by: Lincoln
Originally posted by: GsoFly
Welp, took a damn belt sander to the thing to get it down as far as i can without sanding it to oblivion... Didnt work. Something else might be bad with the board considering how bad the contacts were. Who knows, just a blank white screen or flashing red (depending on which system I test it on)
first of all that thing is a goner, but you should not be using sandpaper.
second of all, hope the seller doesn't catch this because that would be grounds for ebay to deny your claim.
I agree with Lincoln here. Once you use sandpaper, it's pretty much gone.
Now, not to sound hypocritical (and Lincoln, you'll probably disagree with hearing this, lol) -- I'll admit, I do use sandpaper myself,
but that's if it's really really really super-fine grit and only if I really really have to. (DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!) I mean the stuff I use has to be to the point where it's
basically a cloth. When you use heavier gritted stuff, you grind past the connective gold and metal parts down to the pink part which isn't quite conductive. Basically, don't try and sand it down, especially without the proper tools. Again, I've been doing it for 15 years, but I won't recommend anyone useing sandpaper if it's something that they're not familiar using when it comes to NES carts.
What I can recommend is a pretty cool guide by someone named 'CRTGAMER' on the racketboy forums.
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/vi...
It shows the various methods and cleaning supplies to use when cleaning your carts. I usually recommend cleaning something like a SMB/DH cart since there are plenty of those laying around before you get the confidence to work on other carts.
I will also agree with Lincoln about the Ebay claim. Sometimes it's hard to fight the claim you placed with just
opening a cart, much less trying to sand it down. Any faults have to be on the seller, and with any further tampering will cause Ebay to deny your claim.