
The English service manual for the Sony Trinitron KV-X2932U, free to download with no paywall, shared after I found it being sold by people who had no right to it.

The Einstein’s 3 inch drive was grinding with a disc jammed inside. Bent runners and a seized head made it unrepairable, but a mint donor drive saved the day.

A box of open source retro PCBs from PCBWay, from Amiga RAM expansions to an UnoCart 2600, each one a future project for the channel.

A dead Tatung Einstein, a vented capacitor and a blown fuse. I swap in a Mean Well PT-65B on a custom 3D printed mount inside the original PSU shell.