@L1Games I'm sure you have repaired and refurbished thousands of consoles...if that means washing the plastics. Seriously, a dremel to remove the switch? No solder wick around?
There are only 2 ways those switches go bad. The grease inside them gets caked with dust and no longer makes contact...
The "strain releif" in the heavy sixer is actualy a mounting base for speakers. The VCS was originaly designed to have stand-alone stereo sound (hence the two supports in your case) . Thats what the two vents are for on the top. For whatever reason, they decided to drop the on-board sound and...
@L1Games I'm sure you have repaired and refurbished thousands of consoles...if that means washing the plastics. Seriously, a dremel to remove the switch? No solder wick around?
There are only 2 ways those switches go bad. The grease inside them gets caked with dust and no longer makes contact...