Erm. There is no way to tell until you actually try. And I don't think you can try fixing it without first buying it off your friend. It's a risk. I mean you can't simply say "I'll pay you peanuts for your broken 3ds after and if I can fix it"
It depends on how much liquid and where. What often happens is that if the console sits wet for too long corrosion builds up on the contacts in the ZIF connectors, which means that even if the screens and other parts are undamaged, the console won't recognize that they are connected. If this happens it can be very difficult or impossible to repair.
Yet on other occasions liquid damage is easy to fix with a thorough cleaning of the motherboard with isopropyl alcohol. It all depends on the way in which the liquid spread around, so it's really just a matter of luck. There's not really any way to tell without opening it up, but if you can see liquid marks on the screen itself, I'd suggest staying away from the deal unless it's very cheap, since that would suggest it was a large amount of water.
Yet on other occasions liquid damage is easy to fix with a thorough cleaning of the motherboard with isopropyl alcohol. It all depends on the way in which the liquid spread around, so it's really just a matter of luck. There's not really any way to tell without opening it up, but if you can see liquid marks on the screen itself, I'd suggest staying away from the deal unless it's very cheap, since that would suggest it was a large amount of water.
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Veho:
It's not like they're complaining that their Slurpee is 99% ice or something, but if the cocktail calls for "shot of vodka, shot of vermouth, shot of gin, shot of Campari, three shots of juice, squirt of lemon" and ends up being a thimbleful of booze, that's a problem. -
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The Real Jdbye:
the funny thing is cocktails in norway are only allowed to have 1 20ml shot of booze -
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The Real Jdbye:
but you could buy as many shots of whisky (or anything else) as you want and ask for a glass of ice and pour them in
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Veho:
There was a comparison of the number of Ibuprofen poisonings before and after they limited the maximum dosage per box or per pill (i'll look that up). No limit on the number of boxes you can still buy as many as you want, so people argued it was pointless.
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Veho:
But the number of (accidental) poisonings dropped because drinking an entire package of ibuprofen pills went from "I need a new liver" to "I need a new box of Ibuprofen".
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Veho:
Here we have ketoprofen that used to be prescription-only because of the risk of toxic dosages, but then they halved the dose per pill and sell them in bottles of six pills apiece instead of twenty and it doesn't need a prescription any more. Yes you can buy more than one bottle but people simply don't.
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Psionic Roshambo:
Usually accidentally overdose of ibuprofen here is from people taking like cold medicine then ibuprofen for a headache and the combination is over what they need -
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