Mega Drive
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A pile of donations, eBay buys and new tools opened in one go: a BBC Micro with a homebrew SD reader, two damaged CD-i players, an A600, a Spectrum 128K toast rack and a faulty 32X.
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The smashed Mega CD works, but it looks awful. I strip it down, sand and polish the rust off the shielding, fix the bezel, rebuild it and play some discs.
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The parts have arrived for the smashed Mega CD. I recap both boards, fit a save battery and a new pico fuse, repair a broken track and live test it.
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A rusty, dented Mega CD 1 arrives in a bag with its battery torn off and every SMD capacitor leaking. I strip it down and work out what it needs.
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A big box of random retro odds and ends from Ross Taylor Green, with Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Mega Drive and Amiga items and one cable I could not identify.