What in the world is in yer kit?

[StanJr]

What you got in that kit? I am talking of course about yer atari cleaning kit.

 

I am a stickler for nice looking carts and hardware. I keep a small kit in my kitchen closet that is my atari clean-up kit. In it I keep:

a bottle of GOO-GONE (of course)

a box of Q-Tips

a clean rag

A tube of super-glue (for re-attaching labels)

an exact-o knife (to remove stickers, etc)

a key (to open dust covers on atari games)

a finernail brush (to clean the dirt out of the texture on the carts)

a bottle of Isopropyl Alcohol (for contacts)

an air-duster (to blow out funk)

 

So what's in yer kit. Maybe I'm missing something vital? I must say I'm getting pretty good at cleaning up old atari artifacts!

 

Stanley Cleaner

[bradjewell]

I guess it's just that Appalachian wisdom you got, but I think you got most of the stuff you need in there. Instead of the air duster, for the outside of a newly acquired dusty system, I take it out in the garage and use the air compressor. hehe, more power. I keep a some toothbrushes, the vital alcohol, cheap, stiff paper-towels (for nintendo connector cleaning), precision and normal screwdrivers, my gamers screwdriver set ( with torx and security bits), and thats about all I can think of.

 

Brad

[Paul Slocum]

I also have Tuner Cleaner to fix paddles, which I also use for cleaning contacts and switches. It seems like it works a little better than rubbing alcohol.

 

And I have Armor All for shine.

 

I need to get an air-duster.

 

-Paul

[+RangerG]

Instead of an air duster (what is that?), I just put the vacuum hose in the hole on the back of the cleaner and it blows air instead of sucking it. Kinda weird, but it works great! -- RG

[StanJr]

Air duster is a little can of compressed air that you can spray into things and blow the funk out. Some of them use liquids to compress the air, but you gotta be careful cause that liquid can sometimes come out instead of air. I much prefer the liquid free ones! They are great.

[fmctm1sw]

only the essentials....

 

isopropyl alcohol

pencil eraser

phillips screwdriver

40 oz. Old Milwaukee (used only in emergencies)

[liveinabin]

Duster

Vacuum cleaner

Wife

[moycon]

Hey liveinabin... That last item is fairly new isn't it!!?????

 

I don't have a kit anymore... But yes I agree you need toothbrushes...I prefer them to Q-Tips when cleaning the top grooves in an old Atari Wood Grain.

[liveinabin]

Yeah, I swapped my old girlfriend model, she was getting a bit mucky (or perhaps she was getting less haha)

[Cassidy Nolen]

Novvus Plexi scratch remover

Simple Green

Old toothbrush

Blue roll of shop towels

Soldering Iron

Solder Sucker

Bunch of power and rf adaptors

Cartridge cleaning kit I modified

several electrical cleaners

 

 

That is in addition to what you have already mentioned.

 

Cassidy

[bradjewell]

Glad to see i'm not the only person using old toothbrushes. And I'm glad that ol' moycon uses em exactly the way I do. On an old 4 switch I found buried in a pawn shop it took me a long time to scrub that old thing. They just don't want to come clean sometimes.

 

Brad

[Joel D. Park]

I have a DOC's System cleaning kit, suprisingly it comes with a thing to clean the Atari 2600.

 

Here's one on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=1345075766

 

It's helpful to clean the cobwebs out of a stubborn 2600 port.

 

As far as carts go, I normally use Alcohol and lots of Q-Tips, I have a glue stick for tightning loose labels, and right now I don't have anything for removing stickers, sometimes I'll use WD-40 or something like that.

[StanJr]

quote:

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Originally posted by Cassidy:

Novvus Plexi scratch remover

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What be this?

 

Doesn't simple green turn the labels green?

[Atarian7]

I got two tigervision carts (miner 2049er and polaris) that were so dirty I had to use softscrub and a small sponge. I very carefully scrubbed one small section at a time being careful not to get any liquid runoff. Miner 2049er looks like new now. Still have to clean Polaris and not looking forward to it.