Retro Repair Blog and Articles
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After stinking out the building with an open frame laser, I set up the enclosed Creality Falcon2 Pro 40W and use it to cut a hinged plywood box for a 48K Spectrum.
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My old microscope ran out of room for bigger boards. I build and test the Tomlov TM4K-AF Flex, a 4K HDMI autofocus microscope on a flexible arm, on real PCBs.
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A £95 Facebook find: the dirtiest BBC Micro I’ve ever had, plus a hobbyist dual floppy unit, a Rediffusion monitor and a box of software.
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A second Temu haul for the workbench: which budget tools and parts are actually useful for retro electronics repair, and which are just cheap.
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Temu asked for a right of reply, so I spent their budget on retro repair tools and parts. Here’s what was actually worth having.