Need to refurbish my NES, but need help

[TbT]

the most important thing with dis-assembling the nes is getting the screws out without stripping the heads.  you need a phillips #1 i believe.  the screws require a small phillips head, and its easy to strip out the heads of the screws if your not careful.   apply good pressure once you know for sure that its in there properly and turn slowly.

Its not hard at all to take the nes apart and replace the pins.  scour goodwill and garage sales if your scared to take apart a working nes, and find a shitty one that dont work to see how it all comes apart.  i got my feet wet on one that was completely trashed.  you ned to use a little casution when removing the 72 pin connector so that you dont damage the circuit board's pins that the connector touches.  yet another reason to have some spare parts around.

a few of my NES problems were that the pin connector was just really dirty.  i took it apart and merely cleaned 2 or 3 of them NES systems with alcohol and put it right back in and those work fine now.  you can test the nes while its still apart to determine if it just needed cleaning or needs new pins.

theres a lot of tutorials online that show you how to do each step.

[broiler]

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