On Mon, 09 Jan 2017 10:07:35 -0000, GB wrote:

On 08/01/2017 20:18, Dave W wrote:
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On 08/01/2017 18:48, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

You can buy contact cleaner spray. Does that help?

This stuff, for example.
http://www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebas...cleaner-292642


I did not have any to hand.
What I used worked.


I have a controller that can't be dismantled. I was thinking of spray
some of that stuff in and hoping for the best!

They all can, may need prising carefully.


Not this particular one, but thanks for your insightful post.


They all can, albeit with slight damage.

That's what I thought, but this one seems to have been very thoroughly
glued together. It's for a very very old PVR, but probably worth a
squirt of contact cleaner.

Some sort of glue dissolver rubbed into the edges with a small paintbrush?

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