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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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soldering
36 videos.
A soldering iron turns up in most board repairs here. Capacitors get swapped, broken tracks get bridged and chips get lifted and refitted. Skill matters more than kit, and a poor joint can cause a fresh fault, so many people practise on a scrap board before touching a machine they care about.
Lifting a surface-mount part is covered in five ways to remove surface-mount capacitors, which compares tools. For a snapped copper line, a PCB trace repair tutorial lists the tools and one common method. Fine pin work appears in the Voodoo card with lifted legs, a job for advanced hands. See also trace repair.
Hot irons burn. Fumes need ventilation, and flux and old solder are worth keeping off skin because old solder contains lead. Wash your hands afterwards and keep food away from the bench.
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Damaged PCB Trace Repair Tutorial
Damaged tracks on a circuit board can be bridged to restore continuity. The maker lists the tools needed and sets out one commonly used technique for the repair.
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An Ebay Amiga 600, Single malt Scotch and FOOD!
An Amiga 600 from eBay is repaired and recapped, and a socketed crystal leads to the discovery of a damaged wire.
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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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I Dug a Hole Inside a Pentium III to Fix It!
A broken pad on a Tualatin Celeron 1200 took the core connection with it, so the maker cuts down into the substrate to reach it and rebuild the link.
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Restoring One of the Most Expensive Gaming PCs of the 80’s and 90’s
Sharp's X68000 was one of the most expensive gaming computers of the 80s and 90s, the maker says, and one is restored and modified with modern upgrades.
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LCD Replacement for Sharp PC-1251 (Also, Dock Repairs)
Sharp PC-1251 pocket computers are prone to dead LCDs, and Tech Tangents swaps in a new panel. The video also goes through repairs to the machine's dock.
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The Motherboard DIES when this Sound Card is plugged in!
Why would a motherboard die whenever a sound card is plugged in? Tony359 goes after the fault on an Aztech card, and the job involves microsoldering.
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One More Commodore 1531 Datasette Repair
Another Commodore 1531 Datasette turns up and needs mending, alongside a faulty 1531 adapter plug. Timestamps split the adapter repair from the Datasette refurbishment.
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UltraHDMI HW2 HDMI Port Repair
A broken mini HDMI socket on an UltraHDMI HW2 board gets replaced using a hot plate and flux, with the part and tools listed under the video.
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Scrapyard find: AMD Athlon and a Jetway 771AS motherboard
Bulging capacitors on a Jetway 771AS Slot A motherboard are swapped out, and the Athlon that came fitted to it is tested afterwards.
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3Dfx Voodoo legs disconnected - can we fix them?
Bits und Bolts finds that many secondhand Voodoo cards have chip legs lifted from their pads, then sets out to resolder every leg on a card fitted with faster memory.
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FunnyPlaying Custom Game Boy Advance Motherboard Replacement
Moving the CPU and RAM from an original Game Boy Advance board onto a Funnyplaying replacement motherboard is the job here. The maker rates it as advanced soldering work.
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Simple $7 Product Makes Installing the Pluto GC HDMI Mod Easier
Macho Nacho Productions sets Helder's flex ribbon cable for the Pluto IIx GCVideo kit against plug and play options such as the Carby, asking whether an internal GameCube HDMI mod is still worth fitting.
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Troubleshooting and Repairing a 3Dfx Voodoo 2!
Diamond Monster 3D II, an 8MB Voodoo 2 card, is diagnosed with debugging tools including 3dfx environment variables before the soldering iron comes out for a repair attempt.
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286 motherboard repair - VARTA battery leaked
A 12MHz 286 motherboard with 1MB of RAM has damage from a leaking Varta battery, and Adrian's Digital Basement sets out the repair of the board.
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I Restored This Destroyed Gameboy Advance SP - Retro Nintendo Console Restoration
Snapped in two, refusing to charge and carrying a damaged screen cable, a Game Boy Advance SP gets a replacement screen and a repair.
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Gameboy Capacitor Replace Quick Guide
Game Boy capacitor replacement is walked through with several ways to take the old parts off and two ways to fit new ones, plus advice to practise on scrapped boards first.
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Fixing a mouse button: Genius GM-6
BitsUndBolts attempts to bring back a dead button on an old Genius GM-6 mouse, and links a pin-out diagram of the model.
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I Restored and Upgraded This $2 Junk Original Gameboy - Console Restoration & Repair
Backlight and bivert chip modifications go into an original DMG-01 Game Boy bought as junk, which the maker restores and repairs first, then the colours are inverted back to normal.
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Don't Let an Old Power Supply Fry Your Commodore 64!
Old power supplies can fail and damage a Commodore 64, according to the maker, who builds a replacement and discusses what goes wrong in the originals and which voltages the machine uses.
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Giving the GameBoy Advance SP a headphone jack 17 years later
Fitting a headphone jack to a Game Boy Advance SP, a model that came without one, follows a method from another channel, and the maker admits there may be neater ways.
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Yet Another GBA SP Battery Mod
Can a GBA SP hold more charge? The maker builds a replacement lithium pack, aiming to lift capacity from 550mAh to about 900mAh.
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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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Repairing damaged or lifted pads on a circuit board
Removing a component can tear or lift the pads beneath it. Branchus Creations goes through tips for rebuilding damaged or missing pads so the repair holds.
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BlindEye's GBA SP USB C Charging Port Mod
A USB C charging port goes into a Game Boy Advance SP, with the maker working out the order for soldering the anchor points and via, plus a reshaped bezel.
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1981 Nintendo Donkey Kong Arcade PCB Repair
A 1981 Nintendo Donkey Kong arcade board is repaired by Classic Arcade Repairs, and the maker links the oscilloscope and high voltage probe the channel uses.
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Atari 7800 AV Composite Mod inside the RF Modulator - Fixing eBay Junk
An Atari 7800 with fuzzy graphics gets a composite AV mod fitted inside its RF modulator case, which avoids drilling new holes in the console.
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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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Fixing eBay Junk - Sega CD Model 1 - Part 2 Replacing Save Battery
The save battery in a Sega CD Model 1 is replaced in part 2 of a three-part series, a job the maker says needs soldering.
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0x001B.2 - Solid Polymer ReCap of Mac Classic II
The Macintosh Classic II board gets solid polymer capacitors in a follow-up to the earlier repair, and the maker regrets assuming tantalum parts for the 47uF positions could not be found.
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0x0010.2 - Resurrecting The 98 Machine
A Windows 98 machine has stopped working, and the maker links it to a capacitor missing from a card, weighing a weak solder joint against damage from earlier handling.
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NEW MODS FOR THE NINTENDO 64! N64Digital!
Solder bridges, the blobs that can wreck a video mod, get their own removal method as a PixelFX N64Digital kit is fitted to a Nintendo 64.
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Apple IIc Restoration and video jack repair
The Apple IIc in this episode from the 8-Bit Guy is cleaned up and has its video jack repaired, following on from a computer hunting episode on Rob's channel.
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HDMI Game Boy Mods That You've Never Before Seen! GBA Consolizer
Can a Game Boy Advance run on a television over HDMI? Voultar fits the GBA Consolizer kit, which turns the handheld into a console with an HDMI output.
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Getting Amazing RGB Video from the AV Famicom!
NESRGB, a kit by Tim Worthington, goes into an AV Famicom for RGB video. Most of the time goes on lifting the PPU, which the maker says people find hard.
