Holy crap!
I say again, holy crap!
So I've had this Star Trek SOS game for probably 2.5 years now and it's never been reliable. Monitor would act up (a lot), other intermittent but annoying issues. The game has spent 5x more time 'down' than playable.
So I finally worked up my courage and fixed multiple issues with the monitor (first real monitor repair beyond cap kits, all detailed in a different thread), discovered that many of my other intermittent errors were coming from flaky connectors on the card cage and worked past that, and the last remaining issue was the fracking scratches on the game's plexi.
There were a few that I could feel with my fingers but dozens of them were mostly clumped into the center of the screen. And they were ANNOYING. Much of the game's action is in the center of the screen and you had to look through all of those fracking scratches.
I'd tried attacking the problem with Novus not long after I got the game but it didn't seem to help much.
I finally reached the point of no return. The scratches were so annoying that if I couldn't get rid of them I was going to have new plexi cut and have to give up the original Sega holographic seal of authenticity on the original plexi and I didn't want to do that.
Tonight I decided to go for it since everything else was now working. I guessed that the bulk of the scratches were on the outside of the plexi and I WENT AT IT. I lightly cleaned the plexi with Novus 1 first, then ATTACKED the scratches with Novus 3 for probably 20-30 minutes, pressing HARD. Then Novus 2, polished it off, saw that about half the scratches were gone and much of the rest reduced, went back to 3 and attacked the remaining scratches, 2, and so on.
I was finally left with just the scratches that I could easily feel with my fingernails and figured I had nothing to lose so I went after those the same way and eventually reduced those down to little blips and then to nothing.
It was about 90 minutes of hard work but the final result is BEAUTIFUL. There are still some typical circular very fine scratches that you'll see in any plexi but ALL of the annoying scratches that bugged me are GONE, even the deeper ones.
Wow, Novus, I love you!
I say again, holy crap!
So I've had this Star Trek SOS game for probably 2.5 years now and it's never been reliable. Monitor would act up (a lot), other intermittent but annoying issues. The game has spent 5x more time 'down' than playable.
So I finally worked up my courage and fixed multiple issues with the monitor (first real monitor repair beyond cap kits, all detailed in a different thread), discovered that many of my other intermittent errors were coming from flaky connectors on the card cage and worked past that, and the last remaining issue was the fracking scratches on the game's plexi.
There were a few that I could feel with my fingers but dozens of them were mostly clumped into the center of the screen. And they were ANNOYING. Much of the game's action is in the center of the screen and you had to look through all of those fracking scratches.
I'd tried attacking the problem with Novus not long after I got the game but it didn't seem to help much.
I finally reached the point of no return. The scratches were so annoying that if I couldn't get rid of them I was going to have new plexi cut and have to give up the original Sega holographic seal of authenticity on the original plexi and I didn't want to do that.
Tonight I decided to go for it since everything else was now working. I guessed that the bulk of the scratches were on the outside of the plexi and I WENT AT IT. I lightly cleaned the plexi with Novus 1 first, then ATTACKED the scratches with Novus 3 for probably 20-30 minutes, pressing HARD. Then Novus 2, polished it off, saw that about half the scratches were gone and much of the rest reduced, went back to 3 and attacked the remaining scratches, 2, and so on.
I was finally left with just the scratches that I could easily feel with my fingernails and figured I had nothing to lose so I went after those the same way and eventually reduced those down to little blips and then to nothing.
It was about 90 minutes of hard work but the final result is BEAUTIFUL. There are still some typical circular very fine scratches that you'll see in any plexi but ALL of the annoying scratches that bugged me are GONE, even the deeper ones.
Wow, Novus, I love you!


