Repairs & Restorations
Step by step retro console and computer repairs: diagnosing faults, recapping, power supply repairs, cleaning up battery and fire damage, and restoring machines to working order.
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Two survivors from the house fire hit the bench: a soot-caked Frog Bog cartridge and an Intellivision. I clean them up, then build a Pi Pico multi-cart so the console can run a whole library from an SD card.
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Joy-Con drift is mechanical wear, not a software bug. I fit GuliKit TMR joysticks to a left and right Joy-Con, then calibrate and fully restart the Switch to stop phantom drift.
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Two copies of Looping came out of my house fire, and one probably didn’t work before it. I clean both boards, rehouse them in 3D printed shells and test them.
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Donkey Kong Junior came out of my house fire melted and burnt. I cut out the PCB, clean it, repair two broken traces with magnet wire and rehouse it.
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Half the keys on this SAM Coupé had stopped working. A full strip down, a deep clean and a new membrane bring it back, with some tiny dead bugs along the way.