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 melted ColecoVision cartridge from my house fire, with no idea what game was inside. I clean the baked-on soot from its edge fingers and switch it on to find out.
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Two ColecoVision cartridges melted together in my house fire. I cut Pit Stop free, clean its sooty fingers with a fibreglass pencil and find out if a swollen board still runs.
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A ColecoVision cartridge pulled from the ashes of my house fire. I free the board, clean off the embedded soot, print a new shell and label, and see if Carnival still boots.
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An Atari 800 with a missing key gets expanded to 48K, RAM tested with a Super Salt diagnostic cartridge and a 3D printed temporary keycap. Then the original key turns up in the box.
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An Atari 65XE showing only black and white gets its colour back after a quick diagnosis and a PAL colour crystal replacement.