Gross/weird things you've found inside electronics - Dead bugs and drugs galore!

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Migraine Box said:
Rat nests. Lots and lots of rat nests. No dead rats, thankfully, but oh my god there was so much dried shit and piss. Pro tip: Simple Green eats through rat piss like nobody's business and is completely harmless to PCBs.
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This too. One of them with a dead rat. Not my own even though my computer hygiene was hideous for years. Once a heavy pipe smoker brought in a computer where the back fan was totally encrusted in tar, had burned out, so the machine would stop working a few minutes after turning it on. A bag of weed. A bunch of cobwebs and dead spiders.

Usually, though, just the typical dust and lint.
 
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I found a tooth in a PlayStation. I said nothing, threw it in the garbage, and completed the repair.
I seriously did not want to know where the tooth came from.

With the colostomy notebook, your sister should have denied the repair. Biohazards make recovery not worth it.
I voided so many warranties for wine or coffee. Like no, that is NOT covered.
 
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REGENDarySumanai said:
someone's colostomy bag exploded all over it.
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That is fucking foul
Migraine Box said:
Pro tip: Simple Green eats through rat piss like nobody's business and is completely harmless to PCBs.
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Pro rat tip: if you have rats and they wont go away you can place irish spring around where they are nesting and they will eat the irish spring and die. Or if they are retard strong and survive eating bars of soap at least their shit will not smell as bad
 
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A friend had given me an old ps2, I couldn't get it working so I opened it up and literally every inch was full of dead roaches. Apperatetly they had kept it in an outside storage closet. They tried to convince me it would probably work if I cleaned it but I just tossed and bought one online.
 
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i still think about this sometimes
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Back in my computer repair days we'd get the occasional machine with a roach or two in it. Worst one had a couple dozen, not even a thorough blasting with the air compressor was enough to clean it up. At least it made diagnosing it a cinch.
 
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I found a tooth in a PlayStation. I said nothing, threw it in the garbage, and completed the repair.
I seriously did not want to know where the tooth came from.

With the colostomy notebook, your sister should have denied the repair. Biohazards make recovery not worth it.
I voided so many warranties for wine or coffee. Like no, that is NOT covered.
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We had cookie bits and ramen stuck in our NES. If you shook it you could hear them rattling around. My younger siblings were stupid and put a cookie into the tray and pushed it down. We couldn't get all the pieces out. The ramen was just my brother eating while putting games in.

I ordered a Gamecube on Ebay years ago for my nephew and the seller was in Florida. When I was inspecting it a tiny spider came out of the expansion bay. No idea what kind of spider. It ran under my bed and I never saw it again.

That poop bag explosion would have been a big no for me.
 
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I cleaned and repair Game Boy Pockets for fun and a lot of the times I'm just dealing with 20+ year old gunk, but I've found a few dead bugs stuck in crevices. One of the weirdest things was corrosion combined with moisture resulting in a greenish ooze coming out of the console. That one I think was partly my own fault, I live right by the beach and the sea air does terrible things to electronics. That GBP had been sitting in my "To Deal With" pile for a while and I think the sea air just made an existing problem worse.
 
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Closest I've gotten to gross shit being in electronics is when some of my older PCs got clogged with dust. Especially in my old house, it was practically infested with these weird fly/moth bugs that would make protective coverings for their larvae out of the dust, so we'd see these tubular constructs everywhere, sometimes empty, sometimes with a little larva in it.
 
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I found my Gameboy color in the garbage at my building laundry room.
There was a piece of lint obstructing the controls. Pokémon Silver was in the cartridge slot.

I didn't have a triwing, so I used the edge of a tiny flathead. Tweezed out the lint, and bam, fully functional GBC.

I have fantasies I'll find an AGS-101 the same way, I don't want to put out $130 for a handhold that looks like someone scribbled on it with a Dremel.
 
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