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Part 2: The Teardown

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I used my iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit and the official iFixit Teardown Guide to take apart the PS3.

 

I put a PET Recycling bag on the floor in my room to catch all of the dust and most importantly the disgusting brown smoking debris. I had the Window open all the time and wore Latex gloves in the whole process. I cleaned my iFixit tools afterwards with Alcohol screen wipes. It took me around 2 hours to take the Console completely apart as I had to take breaks to conduct the Guide and make sure I won't break anything as this was my just my second Teardown of a Console. 

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My trusty tools: Black powder free Latex gloves, tools from the iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit and the iFixit Projects map and my Dyson V11 Absolute Extra with the amazing HEPA Filter at the back (the purple thing). 

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Managed to Tear it down without breaking anything, even all of the annoying plastic clips are still all intact. 

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The Motherboard:

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Didn't know there were Thermalpads until I inspected the Board close up. Yes the Thermalpaste is Hard af.

 

Tracking all of the Screws:

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Since I don't yet have Isopropanol Alcohol to clean everything it'll have to wait for that. Because the Components and even the Screws have this disgusting smoke smell I put them each into a PET Bag and sealed it close with a Zip tie. I then sprayed a bit of Air Refresher in my room and left the Windows open to get rid of the disgusting smell and made sure the floor was clean with my Dyson. 

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To my surprise there was very little dust and no Bugs (dead or alive) inside the Console, just brown dust yikes. I've done this in my room since I needed to be concentrated despite the bad smell and couldn't afford to be distracted by my dogs or family members. Now to wait till I've got money again to spend on cleaning supplies, the actual cleaning of each Component with Isopropanol will of course be done Outside and not in the House. 

 

 

Don't smoke and never even try it out ! 

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That looks interesting. I have once disassembled a laptop that obviously was used by a heavy smoker before, it was quite some work to get rid of that sticky residue and the smell. But it was still worth it, it was a Lenovo thinkpad witha 2nd gen i5 and 8GB of RAM for 30 Euros a few years ago. Isopropanol worked quite well to remove that residue.
A few months ago, I bought a nice used vacuum cleaner (Philips PowerPro Expert) on a marketplace for 40 Euros. I quickly noticed that it had a very strong smell of cat pee. I disassembled it, cleaned it thoroughly and bought new filters (for 20 Euros). I ended up with quite a nice vacuum cleaner for a total of 60 Euros.

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