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| | ColecoVision Controller Ports Cleaning |
| Device | ColecoVision |
| Difficulty | Very easy |
| Time | 1 minute |
| Steps | 3 |
This guide is by Juin Yeh on iFixit and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0. ByteRot mirrors it for non-commercial preservation: formatting changed and photos resized for old browsers; full-size photos and the text are on the FTP in /DOCS/REPAIR. Original guide >>
The purpose of this guide is to give step-by-step instruction on how to clean the controller ports on a ColecoVision.
Tools: Compressed Air |
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| Step 1 | ![[step 1 photo]](114799/step01-1.jpg) Unplug the controllers from their ports.
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| Step 2 | ![[step 2 photo]](114799/step02-1.jpg) Spray the insides of the ports a few times with compressed air.
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| Step 3 | ![[step 3 photo]](114799/step03-1.jpg) Plug the controllers back into their ports.
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| Conclusion | | To reassemble your device, plug the controllers into the ports they were taken out of. |
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