Dust, you dirty little...

[QBert]

Dust.

Fine, dry particles of matter.
Small pieces of skin, cat, hair, bugs and other crap Im sure. :-P Yum.

How often you do guys dust your consoles and game box or anything thats lying around attracting dust?

Or maybe I should reword that.....What do you do to keep dust off your consoles, etc?


I try to dust them and the area once a week..ish...give or take a few days, sometimes it's every other day.
But the odd time I forget and when I do get around to it, it can be nasty!
I've been eyeing the dust covers made for Coleco and Atari(Im sure others too) but currently I use.....get ready for it......cling wrap.
Saran wrap to be more precise, but I throw a hunk over the consoles I don't use that often. When I use that console, I just either be careful when taking it off and use it again, or I just get a new one.
It looks like hell, but it helps.


And you..?



Qbert

[SkiDragon]

Paper towels on top of consoles helps. Any stored systems are in a box or at least wrapped in a plastic bag.

[MegaDrive20XX]

Once or Twice a week tops i do a cleaning on my systems

[Emily]

i was just pondering this the other day. Im going to Wal- Mart to get more of those clear plastic storage drawers/containers. Each consoles getting its own drawer.

[Porkchop]

I am now taking a museum approach to displaying my systems. Museums only display a small portion of their stuff at a time. I have a 6 foot high and 5 foot wide entertainment system with a 26" TV and game systems in most of the resest of it. The rest of my collection is in a store room in Rubbermaid boxed or wraped in plastic. Also the systems on display and in use are all what I call seconds. They are second or thrid copies of systems I got cheap. Like the $2.00 N64.

After getting some of my systems covered with 20 years of dust and other crap (sometimes real mouse crap), and spending a lot of time cleaning them up I did not want to let them get so dirty again.

My Museum display now contains:

XBOX
PS2
Game Cube
Sega Master System
Sega Saturn
Sega Genisis
3D0
Sega Dreamcast
N64
Nuon (use as DVD Player mostly)
NES
SNES
Atari 7800 (mostly use for 2600 games)
A Sears Telegames Intelivision just arrived and will be on tempory display for a short while.

Oh, almost forgot the best thing about the museum approach. It is much neater and keeps the wife happy. :D

[LiquidX01]

I'll dust my stuff about once a week also if it really needs it. I like to use Endust for Electronics. It helps with keeping the dust off electronic things.

[kainemaxwell]

Black collects too much dust. I usually dust my console units and the cd cases once a week. The games and system sin the plastic bins/drawers have no dust!

[Gemini-Phoenix]

It's not the consoles you should really worry about. Its your controllers! Just think, hours and hours in your sweaty little hands... Take a look in the grooves and you will find years of dirt and crap which will need to be removed, and I bet your controllers all smell bad too!

I have to buy new ones every 6 months due to the fact they get so worn and minging.

You (Should) change your toothbrush regularly, so why not your controllers?

You should get a toothpick or something and try and get all that muck out of the grooves in your controller... You will be surprised!

[SoulBlazer]

Dust?

My consoles are tightly packed away in a entertainment center -- there's only a little space around them fot the air to circulate.

Maybe once a month. ;)

[Nesmaster]

let me tell you how much i HATE dust.

with that out of the way, i dust whenever i notice a dust build up

[nesgamer]

:duh:

[Nez]

Most of my systems are behind a glass door on my entertainment area, so no dust gets in and it still looks nice.

[jonjandran]

I was actually thinking about a air purifier.

If you set it right next to the entertainment center, maybe it would suck up most of the dust ?

[Ed Oscuro]

I myself have been wondering about those Ionic Breeze units from Sharper Image ('course as a certified CHEAPASS I'd go to eBay for one), but I'm wondering if it would mess up the considerable amounts of data stored on magnetic media that I own.

Outside of that...dusting consoles is overrated. Puts scratches on it for no good reason. CD-ROM based systems? All I've got out now is my GC and PSX (original abbreviation, you know...not "THE" PSX) and they don't need dusting where they are. Wierd like that.

[atomicthumbs]

I like to use Pledge for Electronics. Does a really great job (without any residue) and seems to repel dust for a short while. I dust them off maybe once a month.

[Push Upstairs]

I have some old shirts i cut up into makeshift covers for my systems and i only take the cover off to play the system..

[The Manimal]

Uh oh...terrible with this. Well, for my NES and SNES...

[NESaholic]

I check my stuff every week,my rares are in a case and plastic wrapped.My carts i keep in a dust free case.

[EnemyZero]

I dust on and off once a month, my area doesnt seem to collect must dust anyways. But i give my cart systems a brushing more often

[jdc]

Never really thought about it.

I know that the intake fans on the PS2 and Cube can really suck in the dust, as evidenced by the fan blades. Maybe I'll take a hand vac and suck some of the dust off. I'll regularly run a dvd cleaning disc with a wet brush on it through the PS2 and DC.....but I don't think that I've ever seen a product for cleaning the lazer on a Cube.

My cart systems get a dusting whenever they need it. Over 95% of my games are completes......all I dust are the top edges of the Genny cases. N64 isn't an issue. the system gets played enough and the collection grows rapidly enough (2 or 3 games a week) that the boxes are always being shuffled to make room for the next game (alphabetical order, kept in stacks 7 boxes tall). NES I don't worry too much about.

I use rubbing alcohol and Q-tips on a regular basis to clean carts that I aquire. I just cleaned two DC controllers that I'd bought. Man, were they gross.

[QBert]

Well Im glad to see Im not the only one who hates dust.

The controllers, yea....they get nasty. I try to wipe them off just with my fingers when I notice them or walk by them. A little habit I picked from my buddy.

I like the museum and each console in it's own drawer ideas.

I really need more room so that I can get a retail shelving display, a glass one.



Qbert

[Oobgarm]

let me tell you how much i HATE dust.

with that out of the way, i dust whenever i notice a dust build up

Yeah, that's pretty much me too. Right now, there's a lot of dust on my Xbox. Looks like it's time to clean again.

[davidleeroth]

Dust? No problem, haven't got any, all my consoles are behind some kind of door. If they would have, out would come vacuum cleaner with a brush nozzle.
I clean up my controllers frequently with a toothbrush, very handy.

[MarioAllStar2600]

I have opening doors infront of my consoles. So dust doesn't collect on them much. If I keep it open for a while though I collect dust and need to wipe it down. I just use plain paper towel. I use windex for my arcade cab glass and the glass on the doors.

[The Clonus Horror]

I bouht a little Hamilton Beach air purifier from Target and it significantly reduced the amount of dust collecting on my TV screen and consoles. I don't even have it near them, either...maybe 7-10 feet away. I have it on the lowest setting, too.