Best way to clean your carts... suggestions?

[King_Salamon]

Ok... Yurkie is pimping out a Colecovision for me in the next little bit and I have a stack of fresh carts coming from Pixelboy and Retroillucid but what about my old carts. I want to give them a nice cleaning to help my Coleco stay nice and fresh!

 

What's the best way to clean the carts? Q-Tip and alcohol? I want to get the contacts nice. The longer I can keep my games and system in tip top shape, the better.

 

Ok.. input time. Suggestions? Tips and tricks? Anything a person shouldn't do?

[Yurkie]

Ok... Yurkie is pimping out a Colecovision for me in the next little bit and I have a stack of fresh carts coming from Pixelboy and Retroillucid but what about my old carts. I want to give them a nice cleaning to help my Coleco stay nice and fresh!

 

What's the best way to clean the carts? Q-Tip and alcohol? I want to get the contacts nice. The longer I can keep my games and system in tip top shape, the better.

 

Ok.. input time. Suggestions? Tips and tricks? Anything a person shouldn't do?

 

DeoxIT is best, but if you want to use alcohol I recommend using only 99% Isopropyl alcohol, not the 50% or 70% stuff. Put it on a Q-tip and move in and out rubbing the contacts. Rubbing side to side you might damage the contact traces.

[King_Salamon]

Thanks Yurkie... I'll give them the alcohol treatment... don't have DeoxIT and want to avoid buying any... I should have the Isopropyl stuff here somewhere.

[Yurkie]

Thanks Yurkie... I'll give them the alcohol treatment... don't have DeoxIT and want to avoid buying any... I should have the Isopropyl stuff here somewhere.

 

You most likely have the watery 50% or 70% stuff. I would recommend going to the pharmacy and getting a bottle of 99%. It costs about a $1.50 here in the US.