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 recapped Game Gear with a new IPS screen and still no picture. I probe it with a scope, redo the wiring, and finally get it working in a new apple green shell.
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There’s something oddly irresistible about a console that’s already been given up on. This Sega Game Gear arrived with a label: “parts donor only”. In other words, someone had already tried to fix it, failed, and decided it was better off as a donor than a device. Naturally, that makes it far more interesting. Watch…
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How I fixed my SAM Coupé drive with new belt and caps
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A Japanese FZ-1 mainboard with a 240p switch becomes the heart of my Ultimate 3DO. First, a thermal health check, drive tests and two capacitor swaps.
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I completely strip down a non-working Presonus Eris 3.5 Generation 1 studio monitor and replace its failing electrolytic capacitors to repair a problem where the monitor speakers were not working. The Eris 1 was not powering on and seemed dead. The stock caps were cheap, low-quality parts that had become faulty from heat. As one…