Subscriber Sent Me This Junk Nintendo DS Lite for Restoration

Subscriber of mine asked me if I’d like to restore Nintendo DS Lite handheld received as part of a gaming console lot he bought. Naturally I said yes and he sent it to me. He was very kind to add some spare parts for me too so I can try to make some sort of FrankenNintendo. And just because some of you are probably curious the 3rd main board I didn’t show much on the video had a power issue and there was lots of white glue on top of the chip responsible for powert management. The glue is hard to remove but likely that chip was somehow damaged, becasue everything else seemed fine. I might try to remove the glue and replace teh chip some day. After diassembly I cleaned the shell parts with soap, but a lot of the rust stains didn’t come off. Also some of the parts were yellowed so I used hydrogen peroxide to remove the yellowing. In this case it also dissolved the rust leaving the parts looking like brand new. Another method to remove rust stains would be with acid. Tutorial to retrobrighting:
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