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Here are two shots of it from the ebay auction:





Here's what I did:

1. I took



2. Completely disassembled the case and soaked it in luke-warm water with generic Oxiclean for 10 minutes, and used a sponge to clean it. The case came perfectly clean, but still looked terribly damaged:





3. After drying, I used





4. Cleaned with Windex again, leaving it beautiful:





I had the polish around from my pipe restoration work. It's typically used to remove oxidation from smoking pipe stems (made of Vulcanite, lucite, plastic, bone, etc) and leaves a polish roughly equivalent to 20,000 grit micro-mesh polishing pads. It excels on black stems, but you always avoid applying it over logos and inlays.



It worked nicely on the Saturn, getting rid of 95% of the damage. Only the serious bruises are left but none of the white remains, so what is there blends in pretty well. It also worked perfectly on the CD window, leaving it shiny and crystal clear. To my surprise, it did not polish the case to a gloss but left it more or less matte. No paint or black plastic seems to have been removed from the case's finish either.



I would advise giving this a shot if you have a really worn out case. If you're extremely careful, you may even be able to use pipe polish to remove a single scratch from a nice case.

I had a little success in case scratch/scuff removal that I wanted to share. Last night I tesetd various products on my battery cover trying to remove the white and grey scratches that plagued my latest Saturn purchase.Here are two shots of it from the ebay auction:Here's what I did:1. I took Trekkie's advice and cleaned it thoroughly with Windex.2. Completely disassembled the case and soaked it in luke-warm water with generic Oxiclean for 10 minutes, and used a sponge to clean it. The case came perfectly clean, but still looked terribly damaged:3. After drying, I used Brebbia pipe and stem polish ($5 online) over the entire case, and lightly rubbing out the damaged areas. I applied 1/8 of a drop at a time and polished using a small paper towel. It took about 45 minutes to do the whole thing. Warning: don't touch any of the Sega logos with the polish or it might rub them off.4. Cleaned with Windex again, leaving it beautiful:I had the polish around from my pipe restoration work. It's typically used to remove oxidation from smoking pipe stems (made of Vulcanite, lucite, plastic, bone, etc) and leaves a polish roughly equivalent to 20,000 grit micro-mesh polishing pads. It excels on black stems, but you always avoid applying it over logos and inlays.It worked nicely on the Saturn, getting rid of 95% of the damage. Only the serious bruises are left but none of the white remains, so what is there blends in pretty well. It also worked perfectly on the CD window, leaving it shiny and crystal clear. To my surprise, it did not polish the case to a gloss but left it more or less matte. No paint or black plastic seems to have been removed from the case's finish either.I would advise giving this a shot if you have a really worn out case. If you're extremely careful, you may even be able to use pipe polish to remove a single scratch from a nice case.

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Excellently done!!



Neither of my Saturns currently need this sort of treatment, but both of my Neo Geo Pro-Gear joysticks need some love and attention as they've obviously been subjected to a battering in the past!! I'll have to pick up some of that pipe-polish stuff and see how I get on - thanks for the heads up by the way smokemonster - much appreciated. Excellently done!!Neither of my Saturns currently need this sort of treatment, but both of my Neo Geo Pro-Gear joysticks need some love and attention as they've obviously been subjected to a battering in the past!! I'll have to pick up some of that pipe-polish stuff and see how I get on - thanks for the heads up by the way smokemonster - much appreciated.

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Yeah that looks a lot better, nicely done! Time to get some games playing action going. Nice to see you were trying to retain the matte finish as they should be. Some guy about 2 years ago posted some amazing pro quality pictures of his Saturn & Genesis but they were jet black and super shinny... did not look right at all.Yeah that looks a lot better, nicely done! Time to get some games playing action going.



Yeah, I get kind of irritated seeing people cover their systems in WD-40 to make them uber shiny. These systems were never that glossy or shiny when they were new. They had a matte finish and as a result should look that way. Covering them in WD-40 just makes the systems look greasy if you ask me. Hence why I prefer Windex as it just restores the shine that's naturally there.



It's great to see how nice these Saturn's turned out though. I'm curious if that pipe polish could remove the scuffs out of US Saturn cases. If someone could test it on a generic Jewel case that would be nice to see. Yeah, I get kind of irritated seeing people cover their systems in WD-40 to make them uber shiny. These systems were never that glossy or shiny when they were new. They had a matte finish and as a result should look that way. Covering them in WD-40 just makes the systems look greasy if you ask me. Hence why I prefer Windex as it just restores the shine that's naturally there.It's great to see how nice these Saturn's turned out though. I'm curious if that pipe polish could remove the scuffs out of US Saturn cases. If someone could test it on a generic Jewel case that would be nice to see.

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Today another Model 1 showed up. I planned on it being broken ($20 shipped and it was untested), but it actually boots games right up. I'm going to clean it up and will post pictures here if I end up using any polish on it. I agree that the Saturn's matte finish is really attractive and I was happy to find that the pipe polish retained that look. Here's a tutorial for pipe restoration that I wrote a while ago using the same product. As you can see there, the polish is designed to cut through heavy oxidation while polishing out scratches.Today another Model 1 showed up. I planned on it being broken ($20 shipped and it was untested), but it actually boots games right up. I'm going to clean it up and will post pictures here if I end up using any polish on it.