I have a whole basement full of junk in various states of repair, and this is a new show we're doing where I take you through the process of cleaning, repairing, and waxing nostalgic about all kinds of old stuff, from consoles and games to vintage audio. If you like watching old stuff get brought back to showroom-fresh, or as close as possible at least, you should definitely check out This Old Tech here on IGN and on the IGN YouTube channel. There's some debate about the long-term effects of retro-brighting yellowed plastics, and thankfully I got one of the ones from a batch of ABS that didn't turn into that sickly yellowish tinge of so many electronics of the era. There's no yellowing on the case, either, which was great. This was about as straight-forward of a restoration as I could have asked for. The Calabar Estuary dredging project was the subject of, along with Bonny and Lagos, a probe by the Senate, of dredging contracts costing at least 3 billion with no appreciable benefit. I was lucky with this particular unit, because while it was dirty, it wasn't "rescued from a landfill" dirty, and the components inside were completely free of moisture damage or corrosion. Cleaning up a Super NES is a lot easier than you think, as it doesn't require special screwdrivers or really anything you (probably) don't already have in your junk drawer.
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