Has anyone ever used a toy repair service? I've found a few vintage toy restoration businesses that accept out of state clients where you mail your items for repair and they send them back to you.I collect vintage Japanese toys and have been successful in cleaning up battery compartments and restoring toys to like-new, working condition. But I now have two inoperable toys (one from 1984 and one from 2006) that I can't get working due to the extend of the battery leakage. I'm considering using one of these repair shops but was wondering if anyone else has used services like this.I bought both of these toys for $30, purely for collection purposes, but they go for ~$500 in working condition, which rarely pop up for sale anyway.Picrel is one of the pieces I'd love to bring back to life.
Is this issue just a lot of battery corrosion? Seems like mailing and shipping and all that would be too much.
>>11671842Have you tried vinegar?
>>11671845I mean, you've done the white vinegar and lemon juice and cotton swabs and toothpicks and 90% isopropyl alcoholall that? I've heard that you can even use a pencil eraser or very fine sandpaper gently.
>>11671845>>11671849>>11671850That's my go-to and it works like 90% of the time. But the two toys I want to repair still aren't working after removing as much of the corrosion as I possibly could.
>>11671854How do the contacts and springs look? Are you able to open it up and look for damage inside?
>>11671856I mean, if those are blackened at all that would need replacement, yeh.
>>11671856OP pic is still in the mail, which will actually be #3 if I can't get it working (and I doubt I'll be able to based on the seller's pics). The other two are the same toy I bought multiples of- see picrel, which is post-cleaning, and there are no springs. Cat photobombed.
>>11671867That's some heavy corrosionMy recommendation is to try sanding the contacts or using a gentle abrasive to get back down to metal
