Fixing Nintendo Game Boy Battery Damage - Part 1 of 2

In part 1 of this 2 part video I take a look a 2 Nintendo Game Boy's that have both been stored for a long time with alkaline batteries installed, which have leaked into them.
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Chapters:
0:00 Double Trouble
1:30 Grey Game Boy
5:48 Cleaning LCD
10:22 Logic, Power, Audio Board Clean
17:50 Reassembly and Testing
21:03 Yellow Game Boy
27:00 Logic, Power, Audio Board Clean
32:26 Reassembly and Testing
35:28 Playing some Games
38:35 Problems!

[@seththomas6896]

Grew up with a yellow gameboy, always glad to see one revived! We always joked about how the gameboy and other nintendo products where made out of Nintendium, a indestructible substance

[@DavePoo2]

Well unfortunately the Yellow one didn't do as well as I would have liked. I can guarantee you now that the Game Boy is not indestructible, but that said, it's managed to survive some nasty battery damage, so it's a pretty hardy little thing. They seem to be pretty well constructed (for the time), built down to a price, but well made. They don't have leaky capacitors that plague all the SEGA Game Gears.

[@lochmarnegoat9812]

A Gameboy's mortal enemy is the battery.

[@DavePoo2]

Well, at least they are not soldered to the board like all those Amigas and other computers that got destroyed by battery leakage.

[@Jkauppa]

so you know about the vinegar + table salt rust removal trick I see :)

[@Jkauppa]

it relies on the hcl + fe2o3, hcl formed by the acetic acid with the nacl

[@DavePoo2]

Are you literally saying to put salt & vinegar on it! Tasty!

[@Jkauppa]

lol, maybe, i did not know hcl was tasty (acid)@@DavePoo2

[@Jkauppa]

anyways it will etch any nonsense faster, like rust, also metals@@DavePoo2

[@DavePoo2]

I've actually got a small bottle of Oxalic acid if I need to remove rust.