The garage workshop proved too costly, so I’ve set up in the dining room. A tour, plus fixing my Creality K1C after I tore its LCD ribbon cable.
After years of chasing one, a boxed SAM Coupe with two drives, mystery expansions and original 1989 paperwork arrives. The first look before the restoration series.
A smashed, yellowed PAL Super Nintendo wouldn’t boot a game. I clean its slot with a 3D printed tool, move the barrel jack and swap everything into a new smoke grey shell.
A £95 Facebook find: the dirtiest BBC Micro I’ve ever had, plus a hobbyist dual floppy unit, a Rediffusion monitor and a box of software.
A gifted Atari 130XE shows nothing at power on. A thermal camera finds RAM running hot enough to boil water, but replacing it wasn’t the end of the story.