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 Commodore 64 with no sound gets diagnosed, a SID swap brings the voice back, and a SwinSID Nano gets a disappointing listening test.
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A much loved Spectrum 128K toastrack gets its botched recap undone and a fresh set of capacitors. My desoldering station dies, a patron comes to the rescue, but the machine still isn’t fixed.
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A $17 junk Bandai WonderSwan had a burnt polariser and an almost invisible screen. I strip the old film, clean the LCD and fit a new polariser cut on a Cricut.
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The Amiga A600 from my house fire tried to boot, but its board was coated in greasy soot. My first ultrasonic cleaning attempt, from mixing the solution to the results.
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300 degrees, then two weeks in mouldy water. I plugged in the Amiga A600 board from my house fire expecting nothing, and it produced a picture.