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 wobbly header tone means a slipping belt. I clean and flip the belt on a 1980s Cathay computer cassette deck, clean the pinch roller and heads, and set the azimuth.
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A Dreamcast that randomly reboots or resets once it warms up usually has corroded power supply pins. Here is how I lift the PSU and clean them.
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A disc physically stuck in a fat PS3? Here’s the full strip down: case, Blu-ray drive, disc removal, and how to reset the drive mechanism so it goes back together.
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Corroded ALPS key contacts and a faulty 8-pin DIN cassette socket brought my Toshiba HX-10 MSX back from the dead.
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Two quick ZX Spectrum fixes that never made it into a video: a Ram Turbo joystick interface with bad solder joints, and a 48K board missing its Z80.