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Game Forum / Nintendo / Game Boy / January 2006scratches
hi i have a gba and i have a few deep scratches on it, does anyone know anything that i can use to get rid of them? thanks "Adam" <ad.sparkes@ntlworld.com> wrote in news:pHSyf.93334$7p5.88444 @newsfe4-win.ntli.net: > hi i have a gba and i have a few deep scratches on it, does anyone know > anything that i can use to get rid of them? > > thanks Original GBA, or SP? Scratched on the plastic covering the screen or on the case? "Adam" wrote in message ... > hi i have a gba and i have a few deep scratches on it, does anyone know > anything that i can use to get rid of them? > > thanks Well, you can't really "get rid" of scratches. Its like trying to "get rid" of a three-inch hole on a football field. You can either fill the hole up, or dig the rest of the field down 3 inches. Despite the many claims, there is no "magic" product out there that can "get rid" scratches. There are some that are pretty good at obscuring them though. Brasso can work to obscure micro-scratches. There is a product called "Novus" that also works fairly well with micro-scratches (Novus #2). Novus can be found in hobby shops for just a few bucks per bottle. I've used it in the past for several things. The "trick" is to not completetly wipe the Novus off, as it leaves behind a waxy film that fills into the scratches. (It only works for very thin micro-scratches, not deep ones.) Beyond that, it gets expensive. Forget all those "As Seen On TV" snake-oils. They are all scams. What you need at this point are one of the professional products used mainly in aviation. At one time, I had a small amount of some stuff "Brillianze", that is used to clean, polish, and obscure scratches on aircraft canopies/windows. I used the stuff to clean up LCD's (to polish, remove fingerprints, make shiny again) and have to say that it did work very well. However, the stuff can't be found in retail stores (sold mainly at aviation shops) and is expensive. There are also "mesh kits" and "glazecoats" out there (mainly for aviation) that many have reported to work pretty good for small consumer products. However, I'm assuming that your GBA has deep scratches in the clear plastic over the LCD? This is the original GBA, not the SP? The easiest, and most cost effective, approach would be to simply replace the top case. I would just look for a non-working GBA on Ebay, that has a decent case, and simply swap it out. Cheers, Eric "Eric" wrote in message ... > "Adam" wrote in message ... > > hi i have a gba and i have a few deep scratches on it, does anyone know [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > Cheers, > Eric Adding to my own post. Scratches on hand-held (LCD) devices is annoying as hell. My NDS has a few on the touchscreen, my PSP has many, and my PDAs have a few small ones. Catch-22: You need some sort of screen protection to prevent scratches completetly, but the prevention usually gets scratched itself and often obscures the beauty of the LCD. Best solution will be when manufacturers get smart and start making ALL handheld devices that makes use of easily swapable faceplates. Nintendo finally took this approach with the Micro. My cell phone makes use of swappable (cheap) faceplates and therefore is truely mobile as I toss my phone around with complete disregard. No reason why swappable faceplates can't be used with touchscreen devices either. Simply incorporate the touschreen into the faceplate. The actual touchscreen component is seperate from the LCD. Sure, it will make the faceplates cost more, but touchscreens have come down big time in price in just a few short years. (I.e., the touschreen for the Nintendo DS can be had for only $20.) > Adding to my own post. Scratches on hand-held (LCD) devices is annoying as > hell. My NDS has a few on the touchscreen, my PSP has many, and my PDAs > have a few small ones. Catch-22: You need some sort of screen protection to > prevent scratches completetly, but the prevention usually gets scratched > itself and often obscures the beauty of the LCD. i think it's the sort of thing you just have to live with... i just got a new dell axim x51v and ONE DAY before my boxwave screen protectors arrived i scratched the screen the same thing happened to my ipod (first night i had it, left it face up on the coffee table and it got scratched, wtf), my gb micro (buffed the fingerprints off it with a polo 5 mins after taking it out of the box, covered in microscratches), my dvds (i look at them and they scratch) etc etc after a while you just don't care... in a year my axim will be old and sh.t and i'll be selling it for $50, so i might as well take the stupid screen protector off and get a decent responsive touch-screen again! >> Adding to my own post. Scratches on hand-held (LCD) devices is annoying as >> hell. My NDS has a few on the touchscreen, my PSP has many, and my PDAs [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > box, covered in microscratches), my dvds (i look at them and they > scratch) etc etc do mirrors break when you look into them too? I think I'm beginning to see your problem :P  Signaturefiddlewidawiddum "furious gibbon" wrote in message ... > > Adding to my own post. Scratches on hand-held (LCD) devices is annoying as > > hell. My NDS has a few on the touchscreen, my PSP has many, and my PDAs [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > sh.t and i'll be selling it for $50, so i might as well take the stupid > screen protector off and get a decent responsive touch-screen again! I hear ya. Eventually, when you reach the point of "not caring" you start to actually get a lot of use out of LCD gadgets. PDA's have come a long way with being more scratch resistant though. My first one, a Cassiopeia E-100, would get scratched just by breathing on it. It got a lot of scratches so I eventually bought two new touchscreens for it. (They were $35 each.) Installed one and had the other as a "backup". The funny thing was that I didn't care about the scratches on the second screen, because I knew I had a third and could "make it brand new" again! The third touchscreen is still boxed away. Psychological thing, I guess. Cheers, Eric >What you need at this point are one of the >professional products used mainly in aviation. At one time, I had a small [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >that it did work very well. However, the stuff can't be found in retail >stores (sold mainly at aviation shops) and is expensive. Is this the product you're talking about? http://setshop.com/product_info.php?products_id=364 $5.50 for an 8 ounce bottle doesn't sound too expensive. Shipping comes to about $9.00 unless you live in NY/NJ however. "Paul Angstrom" wrote in message ... > >What you need at this point are one of the > >professional products used mainly in aviation. At one time, I had a small [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > $5.50 for an 8 ounce bottle doesn't sound too expensive. Shipping comes > to about $9.00 unless you live in NY/NJ however. Nice find! Yes, that is the stuff I mentioned. It doesn't perform miracles, but does work very good with LCD's. Cheers, Eric hi thanks for the tips, i'll try use some brasso it sounds like it does the trick the scratches aren't that big so it should work! thanks again Adam > hi i have a gba and i have a few deep scratches on it, does anyone know > anything that i can use to get rid of them? > > thanks |
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