Finally got around cleaning my older brother's old GameCube controller and it was flithy, flithy,
flithy! Crud and dirt all around the inside of the cracks, buttons, the sticks, the Nintendo GC logo on the back and what else it was in. Really hate how Nintendo have to use those tri-winged screws, it takes a 2mm flathead screwdriver to unscrew those and the one I had has no grip, so trying to loosen those was a pain. I had to get my father's 2mm flathead screwdriver to get the controller open. I took the parts (save for the motherboard, the screws, and the spring-loaded L and R buttons) and scrubbed and brushed clean with dish soap and alcohol then dried it out with a hair dryer.
Then I looked at the mother, there was
hair around the sticks' mechanism. I can understand dust and lint, but small bits of hair? How does hair get into something sealed tighter than Sony sealing the deal at E3?
Well its cleaned now, though I got another one to do...