Do you guys think I can save this NES?

I often buy console for parts or repair. I just picked up a pretty nice one.
From the exterior it seems obvious it has suffered some abuse. My camera is pretty bad at capturing yellow but believe me, it is. Not to mention hammer smashed, or maybe stepped on.



Took me a while to take the top apart as the screw heads were rusty and stripped. I managed to do it using ancient arcane techniques.
It is not very nice inside it...
Do you guys think I can save it?

 

that look pretty bad, but you never know until you try.

 

Well, I did just that and it works XD.

I actually had to clean the Ac adapter input and RCA jacks with steel wool as they were packet with rust.
I installed the mobo in a good bottom with a good 72 pin connector and it fired up right away.

 

What a tank!

 

If you have a ultrasonic cleaner the pcb should come up like new. the NES has a pretty thick solder mask so i doubt there will be much corrosion

 

lol i was going to say "did you test it" but though it went without saying, but yeah give the PCB a clean and should be good, shame about the case and stuff........a project console i suppose, or maybe just keep an eye out for a top case on ebay, nice to see how sturdy these are, i doubt a 360 or ps3 would still be working in that state....an xbox 360 dies if you even look at it wrong

 

Nice job, It's pretty cool fixing NES's. Getting broken ones and fixing them. I don't think it would be that hard to fix it either.

 

I do not have an ultrasonic cleaner, but I just put the Mobo in the dishwasher. I removed the cover of the RF module first, it is packet with rust inside. First time I put a whole mobo in the dishwasher but I do all the time with case parts.

I could glue the case back to fix the cracks and purchase a replacement cart door, it will be functional but will never be pretty unless I do some case mods on it.

However I have a ton of used nes consoles I buy for repair. I just swap parts around to make nice kits. Sometimes I get one in good condition but with a faulty mobo. I have two mobos right now with bad PPUs. For now I will just push those aside and put the working board in a nice case.

 

where do you get the broken NES.

 

Anywhere and everywhere. I get some locally, through resellers getting rid of their bad stuff or thriftstores who do not know how to make them work. I used to get some at the flea markets but now they are almost impossible to find at decent price there.
I got most from ebay by buying AS-IS console lots. I usually find sellers who combine shipping and work out bulk deals.
I also find misc parts lots for controllers and hookup. I recently scored a huge box of 35 NES controllers.
For PSU i usually get third party suitable adapters, i got a bunch of Old panasonic AC adapter. They work on the NES and they are pretty good quality and they were very cheap.

 

I think finding plugs for older consoles will be the real struggle.

 

Pm me if you need a rf cord

 

For the NES, only the controllers are hard to find at good price. You can use off the shelve cables for AV and power.

 

Pm me I have 3 controllers wanna trade

 

I think shipping to canada alone would kill the deal for such a small amount of controllers. I am looking to pay 3-5$ shipped per controllers. This is why I buy them in large lots. I often get some in misc lots too.

 

Hmm dishwasher heheh, do you use plain old dishwasher tablets??
Id probaly use 3 or 4 to make sure the water stays at a nice alkaline Ph, or just use dishwasher cleaner which is super alkaline hehe..

ima am have a go at cleaning a PCB with 20% sodium hydroxide (it's used to clean commercial ovens also Some beef plants use it in cheap meat patties to break down gristle and sterilise the meat)

 

I believe you can fix it for sure

 

i have the opposite problem im hoarding all the power supplies and only a few consoles to go with them .....probably have about 10 spare official snes/nes power supplies i have picked up from markets, but i do struggle finding mega drive power supplies i have a bunch of them with not enough power supplies, i think its the blue tip on the snes/nes that makes them super easy to spot in a big pile of wires....i think i have a bunch of spare nes/snes pads too, seems i only really find all the wires and no consoles apart from mega drives

 

Why not just replace them with newer switching power supplies less energy (especially in standby, less than a watt)

 

yeah, but i do like them to have all the original wires etc.......i unreasonably don't like it when a console come with a third party adapter, plus the cheap ones are usually pretty cheap feeling and flimsy on the cables, and i wouldn't really feel like spending £10 for a good quality replacement power supply, but i have picked up some compatible power supplies off other stuff from markets before for like 50p-£1 each, most of my consoles that i have spare are just used for swaps and stuff so im in no rush to get them all paired up.....but i think im at a point where i would only get a megadrive if it had all the cables or it was too cheap to not pick up