Pioneer DVR-640H Remote

[JMSatch]

I own a DVR-640H which continues to provide me with outstanding service.

Recently however, my young daughter spilled some fruit juice on the remote control.
We cleaned it as best we could at the time, and whilst it still operates perfectly well, the buttons have become a little sticky and I would like to take it apart to clean it more thoroughly. (I have done this with numerous other remotes in the past).

The problem is that I cannot see how to easily disassemble this remote. It does not appear to be constructed in a fashion similar to those I have looked at previously, and I don't see any obvious screws holding the two main case parts together.

I'm inclined to think that they can simply and carefully be eased apart but I'm not sure.

Does anyone have any experience with this please ?

[Seeker47]

Probably the best one to ask is Orsetto.

I know there are cleaning kits for remotes that are sold online (which I must have bookmarked
somewhere), and I was thinking of getting one for a different old remote. I don't know how effective they are, or how much in the way of DIY skills one needs for this, though. The kit runs around 20 bucks, and the remote I wanted to resurrect would cost $100. for a new one if they were still available, but they aren't . . . which is why I thought there was little to lose. In that case, it wasn't a drink spillage, but some combination of big city air pollution gunking up the contacts inside, batteries going bad with crusty white leakage at the contacts a couple times (I clean that up carefully with isopropyl alcohol), and maybe just the age of the remote.

But of course you have to be able to open the thing up in order to attempt anything.

If cleanup proves to be impractical, and you decide to get a replacement, I highly recommend the Pioneer VXX2967. Fans of the 640 consider this superior to the one that came standard with the DVDR. Last time I checked, these were still available for around $45. And do whatever you can to keep these things away from the snacks.