Vintage gaming collection washed away in Aussie floods

[Hatta]

It's worse knowing how much you guys pay for retro gear down there. I hope he at least runs some of this stuff through a dishwasher, some of the consoles might be salvageable.

...electronics?

through a dish washer?

Yes. Don't use any soap of course. Water just doesn't up and kill electronics, they have to be powered to short out. So a bare motherboard can go through the dishwasher, as long as you give it a good long time to dry out it will probably be ok. But this is a last resort only.

[Bradtemple87]

Yikes! This reminds me not to move into flooding areas, because I have seen this before a few different times!

[Gnashvar]

That's quite sad but like someone said, lives are more important.

I'm sure many of those can be repaired or cleaned.

[Croooow!]

Yikes! This reminds me not to move into flooding areas, because I have seen this before a few different times!

Be careful with pipes freezing and bursting as well, those can do just as much water damage as any flood.

[RCBH928]

what hurts is the time invested into finding all these things
and whats worse if there is something rare in that collection that has only few units world wide

what is this?

[Inazuma]

This guy even had a SuperGrafx. You know he must be a hardcore collector if he has a fucking SuperGrafx.

It was very painful for me to look at those images. I hope everyone affected by the flood can somehow manage to rise up and move on from it.

[env963]

Would be a wise investment to put all of your collection into plastic bins with lids and duct taping up the bins, when you know its going to be a while before you are going to enjoy your collection. Or even if you knew the flood waters were coming your way.

[Hatta]

what hurts is the time invested into finding all these things
and whats worse if there is something rare in that collection that has only few units world wide

what is this?

Looks like 3 Sharp X68000s in a black case. Pretty obscure systems, lots of (very good) arcade ports, and japanese porn games from what I hear. One notable game, Cho Ren Sha, got a port to Windows and even works under Wine.

That's about all I know about the X68000.

[CRTGAMER]

It's worse knowing how much you guys pay for retro gear down there. I hope he at least runs some of this stuff through a dishwasher, some of the consoles might be salvageable.

...electronics?

through a dish washer?

Yes. Don't use any soap of course. Water just doesn't up and kill electronics, they have to be powered to short out. So a bare motherboard can go through the dishwasher, as long as you give it a good long time to dry out it will probably be ok. But this is a last resort only.

I don't think adding more water will help, especially when there are capacitors involved.

Water + Air + Cathode to Anode, try and dry out these layers.

[Hatta]

Capacitors should be water tight, unless they're already starting to fail. In which case, they should be replaced anyway. Anyone with a collection of retro gear like that has probably changed a few capacitors in his time. And, like I said this is a last resort method. If you've tried everything else and it doesn't work, running it through the dishwasher won't break anything.