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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A leaky Amiga A501 half meg expansion caught in time: battery removed, alkaline leak neutralised with vinegar, and a test with early 90s cover disk demos.
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A 3DO FZ-1 bought as working had an intermittent fault. Leaking power stage capacitors were the cause, and replacing them exposed a failed regulator and blown fuse.
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A Retro Asylum Spectrum +3 gets the audio distortion fix, a SCART compliance fix, a full 3-inch drive refurbishment with a new belt and a keyboard clean.
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The smashed Mega CD works, but it looks awful. I strip it down, sand and polish the rust off the shielding, fix the bezel, rebuild it and play some discs.
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The parts have arrived for the smashed Mega CD. I recap both boards, fit a save battery and a new pico fuse, repair a broken track and live test it.