CRTGAMER wrote:Know what you mean, I did the same thing to resurrect a Namco TV Games, Pole position gas ant shift are now operated by one button. Ca you take a pic while you have it apart? Shows another aspect of cleaning up the layers of a screen.
Well, the GB micro might still be apart, but the screen is already put together again. That is not something you want to leave open with 2 cats with chronic Feline Upper Respiratory Disease in the vicinity. Unless you want a snot layered screen that is... lol
I can however give a little explanation. The screen display consists of a few layers as seen here:
In front of the top layer you have a metal or plastic frame. Behind the last layer you have the back of the screen case, most of the time they use a metal casing for this. One or 2 flatribbon cables come out of the box. they are for data transfer to the screen and to power the leds that illuminate the screen. Be very careful not to break or ply these!... You can open the casing by prying a knife into the seams on the side of the casing. You will see most of the time it's a simple click mechanism that holds the case together. Don't force the clicking mechanism too much. You still want to be able to close the casing afterwards. Once you 'clicked' it open, put the case on something soft screen down and take away the metal backplate. Now you will see all the layers one on top of the other. Take them away one by one and try not to touch them. Just turn them over and put them in the metal backplate. Take them between 2 fingers and try to only touch the sides. Oh yeah, you may want to wash your hands before doing all this, so your fingers are not too greasy and there is less chance of you leaving printmarks on the layers in case you do touch them accidentally. Try to find the layer that causes trouble. Clean it as carefully as possible. Most of the time it's just a speck of dust laying on the layer. Try to blow it away as gently as possible. And for God's sake, try not to get any spit on it while blowing. Don't ask, lol. One of the layers may have some sort of coating. Once you touch it the coating comes off. It's a bit like those little silverfishes. When you touch them it leaves a silver coating on your finger. You do not want this!... Once the coating comes off, it doesn't go on again. Same as with those silverfishes, lol. Once you took care of the problem put all the layers back on top of eachother and close the case. Be careful not to get any dust or small particles between the layers when doing so. Otherwise you might make the problem worse than it was before. And trust me on this one, a small speck of dust gets in easily...
Assemble the whole thing and check...
Repeat in case something got in there anyway until satisfied...
Done...
