Flooded Collection (including several NEC stuff! Soft hearts keep out!)

[Tatsujin]

My condolences on your loss Sounds like that was one scary situation.

I just wanted to chime in with SignOfZeta and say that probably most of those systems (and games) should be usable with some cleaning. Just dismantle any of the systems and run them through a dish washer with a mild dish soap. Let them dry for 2 days to make certain they're fully dry, then reassemble. It would be a LOT of work, but you should be ready to rock after that 

Hucards should clean off easily too...maybe put them all in a load of the dish washer as well... Never tried that, but I can't see how it could hurt them.

Fortunately, as long as electronics aren't running at the time, they can get wet or muddy and it won't ruin them.

Good luck with the clean up, and glad you made it out safely!

RG

If you mean with "your loss" and "you made it" etc. my humble self, so I can calm you down, because I'm just the guy who posted the sad link I have found in an other Forum

[_joshuaTurbo]

I think that these pix are from youtube user screw attack europe.  I remember seeing the video of this a few months back, he's a cool guy, and it's totally shit that this happened...

He told me it was mainly from one leaky spot on a roof, and it went on for a while- and when he went to check on his stuff... bang.  Mud on everything....

[Necromancer]

He told me it was mainly from one leaky spot on a roof, and it went on for a while- and when he went to check on his stuff... bang.  Mud on everything....

So he either had a ton of dirt on his roof or his storage room was utterly filthy.  Weird.

[blueraven]

NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[termis]

I think that these pix are from youtube user screw attack europe.  I remember seeing the video of this a few months back, he's a cool guy, and it's totally shit that this happened...

He told me it was mainly from one leaky spot on a roof, and it went on for a while- and when he went to check on his stuff... bang.  Mud on everything....

The story mentioned it was in Queensland (NE Australia). which just went through some crazy floods in the past couple weeks.

[NFG]

All of that stuff was lost on Tuesday last week.  It's all insured, so I don't really have the option of cleaning and keeping it.  Even if I felt like spending an hour or more on every console, I'd only end up with a rusty scratched up system that would make me cringe every time it locked up or failed to boot.  And none of it's particularly rare. 

It's all stuff I took years and years to gather, of course, and I'd really prefer it wasn't ruined by muddy water, but that's life innit?  I'll take my insurance money and run, to collect it another day.

Sure gonna miss some of it.  I'll likely never replace those magazines, and I designed my wedding invitations on the TT030. 

[_joshuaTurbo]

sorry, my bad I thought these pix were from the same occurrence of flooding/gaming collection damage as seen in this video-

Sorry for the loss.

[nat]

Not to make light of your situation, but it's a shame you didn't have some of those PLASTIC CASES someone here was yammering about a couple weeks back. You know, because if you kept everything in plastic cases none of your shit would have gotten wet since plastic cases are flood-proof and all.

[Joe Redifer]

[TheClash603]

Nice Joe!

[esteban]

It's all stuff I took years and years to gather, of course, and I'd really prefer it wasn't ruined by muddy water, but that's life innit?  I'll take my insurance money and run, to collect it another day.

Sure gonna miss some of it.  I'll likely never replace those magazines, and I designed my wedding invitations on the TT030. 

Hey

The worst part of this entire incident, in my eyes, is the loss of your Nectaris 3DS prototype cartridge.

Good luck