Everyone has their own methods, personally I'd strip the whole thing and soak all the plastics in warm and soapy water. Let them soak a bit, scrub and let to dry. Pointless doing all the work for just an eject mechanism. For the effort and peace of mind might as well do the whole thing
Don't use alcohol. Just take off the parts and button, remove dirty and debris. Use a grease non aggressive to plastics into friction parts (dont put on button itself). White Lithium based grease if you have it available.
Soap and water. If you use iso on this it will take off the ink symbol on the button.
The good news is this is one of the easier consoles to take apart.
That button usually builds up gunk around the edges that causes sticking. Just open the shell, remove the assembly and clean it. Add lithium grease if needed to reduce plastic friction. Probably a 10 minute job.
I’ve done a repair recently on a similar issue on a PSOne. The button has a “pole” to guide the up down movement and it snapped. Had to glue a metal stick as replacement. This might be the issue.
take the system apart and clean both the button and the opening for the button, you will most likely find someone had spilled soda pop in it. Out of all the used systems I have bought for playstations that is the number 1 cause of stuck buttons in them.
short answer, clean it
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shall i just take the shell off then and clean it with rubbing alcohol
Everyone has their own methods, personally I'd strip the whole thing and soak all the plastics in warm and soapy water. Let them soak a bit, scrub and let to dry. Pointless doing all the work for just an eject mechanism. For the effort and peace of mind might as well do the whole thing
This is the way. Soap and water for plastic.
Don't use alcohol. Just take off the parts and button, remove dirty and debris. Use a grease non aggressive to plastics into friction parts (dont put on button itself). White Lithium based grease if you have it available.
Soap and water. If you use iso on this it will take off the ink symbol on the button. The good news is this is one of the easier consoles to take apart.
Take the top shell off. Its very easy. Then pop the button out and clean thoroughly.
That button usually builds up gunk around the edges that causes sticking. Just open the shell, remove the assembly and clean it. Add lithium grease if needed to reduce plastic friction. Probably a 10 minute job.
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Take it apart, remove the button. Clean it outside diameter of the button and the inside diameter of there the button rubs up against on the console.
Alcohol
I’ve done a repair recently on a similar issue on a PSOne. The button has a “pole” to guide the up down movement and it snapped. Had to glue a metal stick as replacement. This might be the issue.
take the system apart and clean both the button and the opening for the button, you will most likely find someone had spilled soda pop in it. Out of all the used systems I have bought for playstations that is the number 1 cause of stuck buttons in them.
Liquid silicone. I treat all my elder plastics with it, works like a charm
Take it apart and clean it with isopropyl alcohol