Baby Oil in a Nintendo Game cube

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Hopefully someone here can give me some insight. My two-year old
poured a significant amount of baby oil in my six-year old's gamecube.
I am presently draining it. Is it toast? Would it present a fire
hazard if I tried to plug it up?

TIA

 

[Jonathan]

If the oil isn't conductive then you might be safe....but it might be water
based? I guess you could get some electronic cleaning spray and open it up
and just drown everything to wash the oil out, the spray will evapourate and
should leave it all clean.

 

[James Sweet]

Hopefully someone here can give me some insight. My two-year old
poured a significant amount of baby oil in my six-year old's gamecube.
I am presently draining it. Is it toast? Would it present a fire
hazard if I tried to plug it up?

TIA

So long as it didn't get in the optics of the drive you're probably ok, no
real hazard, but it could be tricky to clean it all out.

 

[NSM]

Hopefully someone here can give me some insight. My two-year old
poured a significant amount of baby oil in my six-year old's gamecube.

Well, it's a lot better than baby crap in the gamecube!

N

 

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I believe the oil is mineral oil. Oil did get on the lens. Is there a
safe way to clean it off?

 

[Andy Cuffe]

I believe the oil is mineral oil. Oil did get on the lens. Is there a
safe way to clean it off?

Clean it off the lens with alcohol. If any got inside the optics
(under the lens) I doubt there's any way to fix it. You will probably
have to replace the optical pickup. You could try soaking the pickup
in alcohol and thoroughly rinsing it out with alcohol. The good news
is that oil shouldn't hurt the electronics at all and there's no risk
in testing it to see if it still works.
Andy Cuffe

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