Retro Repair Blog and Articles
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A rare MGT SAM Coupé arrives on the bench. I check the repurposed Amstrad MP2 power supply, get it booting, open it up and find dead drive belts and a leaky capacitor.
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The garage workshop proved too costly, so I’ve set up in the dining room. A tour, plus fixing my Creality K1C after I tore its LCD ribbon cable.
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After years of chasing one, a boxed SAM Coupe with two drives, mystery expansions and original 1989 paperwork arrives. The first look before the restoration series.
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A digital AV GameCube arrived in a bag with its front panel ribbon torn off. I repair it, rebuild it in an acid yellow shell and fit a FlippyDrive so it plays ISO files from SD.
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A smashed, yellowed PAL Super Nintendo wouldn’t boot a game. I clean its slot with a 3D printed tool, move the barrel jack and swap everything into a new smoke grey shell.