Hopefully someone here can give me some insight. My two-year old poured a significant amount of baby oil in my six-year old's gamecube. I am presently draining it. Is it toast? Would it present a fire hazard if I tried to plug it up?
TIA
If the oil isn't conductive then you might be safe....but it might be water based? I guess you could get some electronic cleaning spray and open it up and just drown everything to wash the oil out, the spray will evapourate and should leave it all clean.
So long as it didn't get in the optics of the drive you're probably ok, no real hazard, but it could be tricky to clean it all out.
Well, it's a lot better than baby crap in the gamecube!
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Clean it off the lens with alcohol. If any got inside the optics (under the lens) I doubt there's any way to fix it. You will probably have to replace the optical pickup. You could try soaking the pickup in alcohol and thoroughly rinsing it out with alcohol. The good news is that oil shouldn't hurt the electronics at all and there's no risk in testing it to see if it still works. Andy Cuffe
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