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I currently attempt to give the DS screens a quick wipe with the cloth for my specs but it annoys me how plenty of dust still gets trapped in the corners and borders. Are the solutions different for Chunky and Lite? Bear in mind I possess both (well, rather I keep nicking my mother's Lite and just leave the Chunky gathering dust in my room ever since).


How do you guys clean your PSP units as well? This may sound bizarre but I actually try to make my silver Phat look new again by polishing it occasionally. Probably not the best way of doing it but I can't think of any other way.


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Use an ear-bud to get into the corners.

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Do not hold the can upside down though. Although that trick is sometimes used in the office to cool cans of drink.

Sorry, but is that a can of air

Yup.

Microfibre cloth

the kind you get for LCD screens

I read that this can force dust into the device and cause problems.

That's probably what the specs cleaning cloth he is using is made of - it's the very corners of the screen gathering dust that he is having a problem with. I'd suggest a little bit of blu-tac to lift the dust off and then polishing the screen in the normal way.

And guns can kill, but only if you use them incorrectly.



Right kids?

Note, if you do use an upside down airduster to cool a canned drink, open the can first.

I've just spent 5 minutes scrubbing the office carpet clean after a small explosion of ice cold pop.

Well I can't tell if my cloth is microfibre or not but it's from SpecSavers so perhaps anyone who's shopped there can let me know, heh.

I'm already familiar with compressed air cans - I tend to use one to clean this keyboard the best I can from time to time, but I'm still of the opinion that I'll probably need to learn how to open it up and force the dust and hair strands out manually. Is it easy?

And as for blu-tac, would I need a tiny, tiny tiny piece of it to just gently move between screen and shell?

It depends on what you mean, really - I have teh same problem with the dust gathering in the very corners of my screen - but it isn't getting under the shell at all - if yours is because of a poor fit then that is another problem altogether - and I'd imagine that the compressed air would do more harm than good. If it's just a problem with dust settling into the corners then all you need is a piece of Blu-tac about the size of a penny and form it into a bit of a point and then press it into the corners to stick to the dust, then give the whole screen a wipe over with your specs cloth (and yes, that is a microfibre cloth you have there)

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Put your fingers over the nozzle so you can control the airflow and simply clean the keyboard.

Works for me just dandy.

Cans of compressed air are awesome. Roll up a little ball of paper, wedge it in the nozzle and shot people with it.

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