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December 20th, 2002, 10:58 AM
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| how do i clean a game controller? So someone was playing my xbox and spilled beer on the controller. It's now dried and gummed up on of the joystick things, how would I go about cleaning this thing out?
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December 20th, 2002, 11:00 AM
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| Ya know, this is probably the wrong site to ask that on.
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December 20th, 2002, 11:18 AM
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| xbox eh? oh, thats easy. you put the controller in the over on 450 degrees for 3 hours until all the beer evaporates. you might as well put the xbox in there just to be safe.  actually, you could take it apart and clean it with denatured alcohol. that usually works pretty well on computer equipment. |
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December 21st, 2002, 11:13 AM
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| I guess I've got nothing to lose, thanks itanium.
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December 21st, 2002, 12:24 PM
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| A wet toothbrush works well for buttons.
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December 21st, 2002, 03:14 PM
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| Xbox? Try autoclaving it....if it kills germs in hospitals I'm sure it will kill that M$ virus...you may have a nice ball of molten plastic afterwards though.  As much as I want to agree with the oven idea, the alcohol sounds much better. If it can get Coke out of a keyboard, it should have no problem with the beer. We use alcohol at the firehouse to clean the keypads and PTTs on our portable radios all the time with no ill effects and good results. You could always eBay it and buy a PSII or GameCube too... 
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December 21st, 2002, 11:30 PM
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