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What's good for console cleaning these days?
« on: October 02, 2025, 03:54:23 pm »
Found a great deal on an N64 at a thrift, but it's got some sort of white marker on it that isn't cleaning off.  Rubbing alcohol took off a lot, but it's still there. What's a good, non-abrasive, way to clean it off?  Haven't had to think about cleaning console hardware in a long time.

Re: What's good for console cleaning these days?
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2025, 05:34:37 pm »
I think for people to answer that you would need to find out what that white stuff is

Re: What's good for console cleaning these days?
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2025, 05:58:58 pm »
I think for people to answer that you would need to find out what that white stuff is

"White marker", already said what it was.

*EDIT*
Found something that worked most of the way, a little rubbing alcohol dabbed on and then using a non-abrasive white pencil eraser got about 90% off.
« Last Edit: October 02, 2025, 07:10:58 pm by kamikazekeeg »

Re: What's good for console cleaning these days?
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2025, 04:54:10 am »
yeah i misread sorry:P 

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Re: What's good for console cleaning these days?
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2025, 06:33:24 am »
I think for people to answer that you would need to find out what that white stuff is

"White marker", already said what it was.

*EDIT*
Found something that worked most of the way, a little rubbing alcohol dabbed on and then using a non-abrasive white pencil eraser got about 90% off.

Erasers worked well for me too in the recent past, wether it was for removing markers or glue residue. Would have been my 1st suggestion
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Re: What's good for console cleaning these days?
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2025, 06:55:58 pm »
Erasers worked well for me too in the recent past, wether it was for removing markers or glue residue. Would have been my 1st suggestion

I'm honestly surprised I haven't heard about this sooner, especially when I was doing more classic console collecting a few years back lol I do have some very slight...smudging I guess I would call it, it's not from where I scraped the marker off specifically, but like more around the area I was wiping off what I cleaned with the rubbing alcohol, but I'm gonna try to get the shell taken off and scrub the whole thing extra good anyways and that should clean that up fine.  I just need to find the security bit for taking the N64 apart, I haven't had to use it in years lol