What electronic items have you fixed/bodged/repaired/modded/taken apart?

VinceB1 said:
Recently: Xbox 360 wireless reciever, needed a new fuse as apparantly these blow all the time. Bit of solder, job done. A new laser in my 10 year old sony dvd player not long back. Oh, I replaced some caps in my parents tft monitor that was failing.... I also did a couple of ps2 chips back in the day as well as replacing jack sockets on laptops etc. At the moment I have a whole host of laptops with (nv)8400 chips in them that need some love.

To be honest I tend to try my hand at fixing just about anything. Even have a new awesome butane soldiering iron which has some brilliant attachments including a hot knife and a flame thrower attachment... love it... best christmas present the misses parents could have got me :)
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Hey there, I also have a butane one. Personally I prefer them as I find the wire with electric ones gets in the way. I need to get me some attachments and some holder thingies, and a magnifying glass etc to get the proper station going. :) You can see from my technical terminology that I am a pro at soldering...ahem.
 
jaybee said:
Hey there, I also have a butane one. Personally I prefer them as I find the wire with electric ones gets in the way. I need to get me some attachments and some holder thingies, and a magnifying glass etc to get the proper station going. :) You can see from my technical terminology that I am a pro at soldering...ahem.
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Mine came with all the attachments in some kind of case it even has a little stand to prop it up to stop it burning a hole in the table, carpet etc, whats handy is that it come with a really small soldering point for detailed work which is where my other iron just doesn't cut it. What more could a man want? Admittedly so far I have only used the new iron with the flame thrower (blow torch) attachment to make light sabre noises... sad I know but I needed to get it out and see what its all about, couldn't let it sit in the case unopened any longer.

The blow tourch and heat gun attachments are massively handy for gpu fixes though, saves heating up the oven.
 
VinceB1 said:
Mine came with all the attachments in some kind of case it even has a little stand to prop it up to stop it burning a hole in the table, carpet etc, whats handy is that it come with a really small soldering point for detailed work which is where my other iron just doesn't cut it. What more could a man want? Admittedly so far I have only used the new iron with the flame thrower (blow torch) attachment to make light sabre noises... sad I know but I needed to get it out and see what its all about, couldn't let it sit in the case unopened any longer.

The blow tourch and heat gun attachments are massively handy for gpu fixes though, saves heating up the oven.
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and the hot knife is great for stoping cuts from bleading, opening those poxy plastic welded packaging
word of warning don't put it down on the carpet when it on or still hot with the stand in place it will still burn it (found that one out the hard + expensive way)

lik most ppl here i will try and repair faulty equipment myself no job to big or small :cool:
i've repaired computers,tv's,stereos,washing machines,hovers, even rewired the house and fitted a new fuse board
 
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I've replaced lasers in midrange/high-end CD players & DVD players, stripped a laptop to fix the PSU socket (turned out to be a faulty mobo anyway), hard-reset the security on a laptop BIOS chip by shorting pins (stripping the laptop again), tried and failed to repair a CD player which needed component-level testing working with circuit diagrams (with guidance), re-capped my home cinema subwoofer PSU, built a headphone amp...the list goes on. I love fixing/modding things, but don't really know a lot about electronics.
 
Various door system control panels, intercom units, with dry joints, blown capacitors etc.

Fixed an old monitor that was really dim by finding the tube controller and turning on the gain potentiometer. (Terminology may be incorrect)

A few RROD fixes on 360s, BDROM laster on a PS3, soldered chip on an XBOX and laser on the original PS.

My Grandad was an electrician and a 'fixer' - things were very rarely replaced, many bits being a bit like Trigger's Broom, so I get it from him, I guess.
 
I took apart the lens of a Panasonic Lumix camera the other week as it was stuck and wouldn't extend (I think it had sand/grid in there).. seems to works now :D,
 
The most recent is trying to fix my old Nikon compact camera after I dropped it onto a concrete floor, failed miserably so I recycled it (the post office does this)

I've taken old hoovers to bits, cleaned the dust of them & put them back together in the past has been the most complex, usually I only go as far as trying to fix the mains lead.
 
Replace a digitizer on my old Omnia smartphone. Was really pleased to have done the research, bought the parts and taken my time to do a really good job of it.

Of course it didn't work at all when i put it back together again so off it went for repair :D
 
4T5 said:
I mod everything & try to fix everything before it's slung away, I even take things that are broken off me mates & fix them or sling them, What can i say it's the Gypo in me. :cool:
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Yep me too. Even faulty hardware gets broken into spares boxes of capacitors, switches, flip flops etc
 
I don't think I've got anything I haven't tried to modify apart from our Humax box. I even took our printer apart to see if I could bodge it so I could feed it other stuff to print onto, like tiles and bits of wood and stuff :)
 
jaybee said:
That's what I was saying above about my TV is about to do this. Also a Tosh. Where did you get the part fella? Any info and methods that save me researching it myself will be greatly appreciated to save time. :) I have a 46inch, think it is the 46XV635DB. cheers
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My Tv is a 32WLT58 and needed the STRW6765 as I said. I didn't bookmark the page but if you google the STRW6765 or q880 you should find the fix.

Took me 30 mins in total, and I am not great with a soldering iron :D

If you get stuck let me know and I will take some photos of where to put the replacement ic
 
- various motorbike and car related bits
- Replaced a Nintendo DS screen
- Modded my case power/reset/eject buttons
- Modded my subwoofer to have kidproof port tubes
- Fixed a hoover (which later my g/f finished off by running over the lead!)
- Fixed a washing machine
- Fixed both my car remote key fobs which are designed poorly
- Fixed my g/f's GHD hair straighteners
- Fixed Optimus Prime
- Took apart my car stereo to desolder a stupid beeper pot
- Got an old UPS working
- Fixed a set of headphones
- fixed 3 x PS3 controllers
 
I managed to fit a GTX 580 twin frozR 2 cooler on to my mate's 480. So much filing... Worth it though. I am in no way going to attempt to fix my magical exploding motherboard though, I don't have the skills for that lol :)
 
Erm, fixed my freeview recorder by replacing all the capacitors on the power supply, including manually discharging the 400v one :D
 
The last thing I took apart was a Creative NOMAD MuVo2 4GB player. The thing had 4GB CompactFlash Microdrive which was worth more than the player. I used it in a camera for a while then restored the player.
 
Lots of things.

At the moment I have my mixer in pieces, but pretty much anything that's broken. It's worth having a go before chucking it away :). Which reminds me, headphone socket on my amp, aha!..

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At work, we needed a multi point C2H4 gas monitor.
We were quoted >£10000 for one, so I made one using some cable ducting and blower fans for less than £1000.
 
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