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 clean, boxed GX4000 and one pulled from my house fire after two weeks in firefighting water. Guess which one boots Burning Rubber.
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The Einstein’s 3 inch drive was grinding with a disc jammed inside. Bent runners and a seized head made it unrepairable, but a mint donor drive saved the day.
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A dead Tatung Einstein, a vented capacitor and a blown fuse. I swap in a Mean Well PT-65B on a custom 3D printed mount inside the original PSU shell.
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Mike Dailly’s US 3DO arrived with its cable cut off. I test it, swap in a Triad transformer wired for 230V, service the CD drive and print the missing flap.
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A soot damaged Neo Geo Pocket Color pulled from my burned out house gets a full strip down, a clean, a new semi-opaque shell and an IPS screen upgrade.