How to Clean a Game Console Without Damaging It
Modern game consoles overheat when dusty. The cleaning is straightforward, but the wrong approach makes things worse.
Smit Sharma writes and edits Repair Habit. He is not a licensed technician of anything. What he knows about repair he picked up the ordinary way: watching his father fix things around the flat rather than throw them away, spending two summers as an apprentice in a small electronics shop, and, once he had his own place, running through the mistakes himself on his own washing machine, kettle, chairs, and car. He is a working parent, a slow buyer of new things, and a slightly obsessive maintainer of the ones he already owns. He does not believe repairing your dishwasher makes you a better person. He believes it is often the cheapest and quietest response to a small problem, which is roughly all the philosophy this site carries.
Modern game consoles overheat when dusty. The cleaning is straightforward, but the wrong approach makes things worse.
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