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Acorn RISC PC 600 battery damage repairs
What has a leaking battery done to an Acorn RISC PC 600? TheRetroChannel works through the damage it has left and sets about repairing it.
Topic
corrosion
30 videos.
Green or white crust on a board usually points to a leaked battery, spilled electrolyte or water. The damage spreads under chips and along tracks, so a machine that looks fine on top can still fail. The usual first step is to find the source and clear the residue, before any testing of the circuit.
If you want a worked example on a handheld, the Retro ER video on a heavily rusted Game Boy DMG covers the power switch, link port and screen. A leaking NiCd cell is the cause in the Amiga 3000 flicker fixer repair, which is pitched at advanced repairers. For a Neo Geo board, see the corroded arcade board. General upkeep sits under cleaning.
Leaked residue is corrosive, and wearing gloves is wise. Old NiCd cells are best removed before they leak, and a swollen or leaking one must not be recharged. Never heat or short a lithium cell. Repairs that follow often mean soldering, with burns, fumes and lead in old solder.
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5 Ways To Remove Surface-Mount Capacitors | One Is The Best!
Five ways to remove surface-mount electrolytic capacitors from ageing consoles are compared, before they can leak corrosive fluid onto the board.
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ACID killed this Neo Geo arcade board. Can I bring it back to life with TOOLS and KNOWLEDGE?
Corrosion has killed a Neo Geo arcade board, by the maker's account, and 74XX Arcade Repair sets out to bring it back with tools and board knowledge.
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Commodore Amiga 500+ - Corrosion & More
Corrosion and odd behaviour once it boots are the problems on this Amiga 500+, a donated machine the channel works through after getting it running.
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Can It Run Tualatin? The MSI BX Master Has a Major Problem...
An MSI BX Master board is tested for Tualatin processor support, but corrosion on the board has to be dealt with first.
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Scam or Steal? Paid $119 for 2 "Untested" Sega Game Gears
What is wrong with two untested Game Gears bought as a job lot? The maker strips both down, finding earlier repairs, corrosion and flux residue on one and a much cleaner second console.
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Amiga 3000 "Flicker Fixer" repair strategies
The Amiga 3000's Flicker Fixer circuitry was damaged by a leaking NiCd battery, and this finale sets out how the maker plans to repair it, citing a linked article.
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Apple Archeology: A "shed found" Apple II+ filled with cards
What is inside an Apple II+ that sat in a leaking shed for at least thirty years? Adrian Black opens it up, looks over the cards and tries to get it running.
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Impossible Repair of a Completely Corroded Game Boy (Full LCD & Power Switch Teardown) | Restoration
Heavy rust on a Game Boy DMG leads to repairs on the power switch and link port, a recap of the CPU board, an LCD swap and a test for horizontal lines.
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Restoring a Junk Game Boy with $3 AliExpress Chips. Power, LCD screen and Audio Fix.
Multimeter checks, treatment of battery leakage and a full recap are followed by chip swaps, including the IR3R40 audio amplifier, on a Game Boy DMG that began with no power, sound or picture.
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Scrap Sega Game Gear Recap: Why Is It Still Dead? (Part 1)
Still dead after someone else recapped it, this scrap Game Gear (dual ASIC VA0 board) is stripped, cleaned of leftover electrolyte and recapped again, though part 1 ends unresolved.
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Amiga 3000T Restoration Part 2: Removing Battery Corrosion
Neutralising and washing away battery leakage from the Amiga 3000T board and its expansion cards is the job in part 2 of a restoration series, with timestamps for each stage.
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Australian Varta Death Amiga 3000 repair 336 P1
Part 1 of a two part series follows an Australian Amiga 3000 that arrives for a small job and turns into a long repair of corrosion and electrolytic damage.
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EXTREME Flood Damaged Game Boy Colors - Restored(ish)
Flood water has got into a batch of Game Boy Colors, and Restorish sets out to bring them back, with a result the maker only calls restored(ish).
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EXTREME Flood Damaged SEGA GENESIS CD - Restored(ish)
Can a Sega CD that has been through a flood be brought back? Restorish takes on a Genesis CD unit with extreme flood damage.
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EXTREME Rust Damaged Special Edition Xbox - Restored(ish)
Rust has wrecked a special edition Xbox, and Restorish sets out to restore as much of it as possible, with 99% isopropyl alcohol among the products listed.
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Nintendo Punch Out Arcade PCB Repair
Overcurrent damage to a Nintendo Punch-Out arcade board is narrowed to the audio amplifier circuit and an LA324 chip, with repairs to battery leakage damage as well.
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RGR - 10 Minute Tips - XBOX Motherboard Acid Cleanup - #10minutetips
Corrosive damage on an original Xbox motherboard is cleaned up in one of RGR's ten minute tips, a short video with a single cleaning section after the intro.
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Fixing Someone Else's Gameboy Color Repair Attempt - Polarizing Filter, Capacitor and Trace Repair
A Game Boy Color that someone else failed to repair is redone, with corrosion cleared, a capacitor and battery terminal replaced, a broken trace mended and the polarising filter swapped.
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This N64 Zelda Game was LIQUID DAMAGED - Let's Try to Save it!
A liquid damaged Ocarina of Time cartridge for the Nintendo 64, sent in by a viewer, looks fine outside, and TronicsFix opens it to try to bring it back.
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Acid Test!! Chemicals for cleaning up after leaking alkaline batteries.
The video compares several chemicals for cleaning a board after alkaline batteries have leaked, and explains why the electrolyte is corrosive.
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I Restored This Yellowed Junk Nintendo 64 - Retro N64 Console Restoration
No picture, a case yellowed from clear blue and white to green and yellow, and signs of liquid damage greet the maker on this Nintendo 64.
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The WORST Game Gear Corrosion Ever
How bad can battery terminal corrosion get on a Game Gear? This one came from an online listing that showed damage, and the maker asks viewers for ideas on cleaning it.
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I Restored This $5 Ebay Junk Gameboy Advance. It Used to be Blue – Retro Console Repair
A Game Boy Advance sold as junk does not work and has turned deep yellow from its original see-through Glacier blue. Odd Tinkering sets out to restore it.
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Repairing broken traces on a circuit board
Branchus Creations says broken traces are common on vintage computers where corrosion has set in, and gives tips for making strong, long-lasting repairs to them.
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Gameboy Color Power Switch and Corrosion Repair
Cleaning the battery terminals and the power switch revives a yellow Game Boy Color that would not start, make sound or show a picture, according to the maker.
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2x Gameboy Advance eBay Easy Repair! 'Dead Board' and 'Flickering Screen'
Two Game Boy Advance consoles bought as faulty are opened up, one with a flickering screen and one with corrosion spread across the board, which the maker says stopped it booting.
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Game Gear - No Power - Fixing eBay Junk
Old batteries left inside a Game Gear have corroded its terminals, and the console will not power up. The maker opens it, cleans the damage and gets it working.
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Recapping Tutorial - how to replace old, leaky surface mount electrolytic capacitors
Surface-mount electrolytic capacitors that have leaked are replaced on a Macintosh Classic II motherboard, with guides to recapping other Macs linked.
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I Bought 9 BROKEN POKEMON Gameboy Games - Let's Try to Fix Them!
TronicsFix takes on nine Pokemon Game Boy games that have board faults, corrosion and one earlier repair that went wrong, trying to get each one loading again.
