Cleaning an SNES

Let me take you on a short trip through the repair process of my Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The Super Nintendo, or SNES for short, was released in North America between 1990 and 1993. It's the predecessor to Nintendo’s famed Nintendo Entertainment System or NES for short.
While the NES was an 8-bit system the SNES boasted 16-bits. What the hell’s a bit you ask? Who knows…who cares? Simply put, the graphics were better.
The following pictures were self taken and show a little bit about what I had to go through to clean my SNES (which is a good 20 years old) and improve its working condition. They are in order from when I began to when I finished.
In these pictures you may (or may not) be able to see how nasty this thing truly was inside. I found all sorts of sticky substances, crumbs, dirt, and even leaves. Yes leaves…like you find on a tree. Apparently when it wasn’t in use by me, the system had a few adventures I’m not aware of.
The plastic inside was broken. There was corrosion on the pin connector, (This is the part the games actually slide into when you insert them into the system), and as you can probably tell, major discoloration to the casing itself. No, it was not in a smoking household. Time has just taken its toll on it.
I am happy to say that I was able to glue the plastic pieces back into place, clean out the mess, and get the overall performance of the system up. The system worked about 80% of the time before my work. It now works 95% of the time. I’m currently awaiting a new pin connector ( the harmonica looking part sitting on my leg in the pictures). Once this arrives and is installed I can almost guarantee the system will work 100% of the time. I hope you enjoy, and maybe in the future I’ll show more of my systems.