Dreadstar
03-01-2008, 03:16 PM
I won a lot of 5 as-is consoles on eBay. One of them, an original non-yellow SNES, was described as "not working." Now that it's here in my hot little hands, I can see why:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3041/2302960630_bf095708bb.jpg
The power jack is mangled. The little plastic nub in the center of the hole is gone. Looks like there's two flat metal pins still there, one sticking out and one bent over and mashed into the back of the receptacle (can just make it out on the left edge of the hole in the picture)
I don't have a 4.5mm gamebit at the moment (it's on the way) so I haven't cracked the case yet, but can damage like this be fixed? Or should I just try to sell it for the non-yellow case parts?
(by the way, the other 4 consoles in the lot all work after cleaning them up...Saturn, Dreamcast, N64 with the power brick, and a toaster NES that could use a 72-pin job... :rocker: )
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3041/2302960630_bf095708bb.jpg
The power jack is mangled. The little plastic nub in the center of the hole is gone. Looks like there's two flat metal pins still there, one sticking out and one bent over and mashed into the back of the receptacle (can just make it out on the left edge of the hole in the picture)
I don't have a 4.5mm gamebit at the moment (it's on the way) so I haven't cracked the case yet, but can damage like this be fixed? Or should I just try to sell it for the non-yellow case parts?
(by the way, the other 4 consoles in the lot all work after cleaning them up...Saturn, Dreamcast, N64 with the power brick, and a toaster NES that could use a 72-pin job... :rocker: )