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Title: how to clean my controller?!
Post by: kopking on March 27, 2006, 11:44:58 PM

i was playing my com round a mates house the other night, and while i played i spilt some beer on the controller. i wiped it away and carried on to play like usual.

after a few days my buttons dont pop back so quickly...... is there anythign you can think of to make the button work faster, and get rid of the sticky dry alcohol?

Title: how to clean my controller?!
Post by: Unicron! on March 27, 2006, 11:51:16 PM

Does the freezer work in this occasion?

Title: how to clean my controller?!
Post by: kopking on March 27, 2006, 11:53:07 PM

nope, tried that! ha

Title: how to clean my controller?!
Post by: Viper_Fujax on March 27, 2006, 11:56:53 PM

maybe a damp rag?

or lick the alchohol off

Title: how to clean my controller?!
Post by: Living-In-Clip on March 28, 2006, 12:13:37 AM

Or maybe quit jerking off and gettin\' stuff in the button. That\'s what I do with my keyboards.

Title: how to clean my controller?!
Post by: FatalXception on March 28, 2006, 10:53:43 AM

Actually, the alcohol is gone, as it evaporated leaving the sticky barley/hops/malt.  

I would use pure alcohol (as pure as you can buy), and use that to dissolve what\'s under the buttons, it will evaporate, and you can try and make that thicker stuff dry near the heel of the pad.  Obviously when you are doing this, power is off, and let it dry completely afterwards.

Title: how to clean my controller?!
Post by: Cerberus on March 28, 2006, 12:43:13 PM

have you tried shitting on a cat, then using the cat as a sort of polishing brush?

Title: how to clean my controller?!
Post by: Titan on March 28, 2006, 02:35:12 PM

You can open it too. I would try the alcohol first before you open it. I\'ve opened controllers before and they never worked again...so yeah. I\'d try the alcohol :)

Title: how to clean my controller?!
Post by: videoholic on March 28, 2006, 02:38:59 PM

Quote from: Cerberus

have you tried shitting on a cat, then using the cat as a sort of polishing brush?

Well duh.. I\'m sure that was the first thing he tried.

Title: how to clean my controller?!
Post by: THX on March 28, 2006, 03:12:03 PM

Quote from: FatalXception

I would use pure alcohol (as pure as you can buy), and use that to dissolve what\'s under the buttons,

Don\'t forget to chug the leftovers soon after.

Title: how to clean my controller?!
Post by: Soul Reaver on March 28, 2006, 11:30:33 PM

Seriouslly though, you can use a very, very lightly damped cloth and some compressed air.

Title: how to clean my controller?!
Post by: §ôµÏG®ïñD on April 01, 2006, 05:46:55 AM

pull it apart and clean everything with straight alcohol.   Make sure its dry. Then put it back together and away you go.

Title: how to clean my controller?!
Post by: FatalXception on April 02, 2006, 07:11:03 AM

If you open it up, it\'s fairly well packaged, but don\'t let any of the inner parts open up (and don\'t pry apart the boards).

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