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

I work in a computer repair shop so do this everyday :) i also repair laptops, computers, xbox anything i can get my hands on in spare time.

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Lots of laptops and desktops.

Fixed a 24 port 100Meg switch my mates dad rescued from a skip at the school he works. Only needed a new power supply, didn't have anything that could supply enough amps apart from an old PC PSU, a small bodge later and it was fine.

Fixed two PTZ wireless webcams (worth a few bob) that my cousin was given after work experience, one didn't pan and the other wouldn't tilt. They now work fine.

Also fixed my parents digital camera a few years back. They hadn't had it long when the zoom stopped working (all internal), sent it back and eventually they got a refund and a discount off a new camera and the old still broken camera back. I opened it up and all that needed fixing was a putting a little spring back on its catch.

Changed the LCD in my cousins digital camera too, new one bought on ebay even came with little plastic tools to avoid scratching anything.
 
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Fixed my samsung mp3 player the other morning before work.

Left channel had stopped working annoyingly days after replacing my headphones for a broken wire for the left side also, found dry solder joint at the bottom of jack causing it to lift off pcb with headphone and lose sound. Had it connected solid again in 5 minutes.

Got to clean out the screen etc at the same time.
 
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!..


I failed. No matter what I do I cannot get stereo sound from my mixer. After 8 long years it might be time to trash her. Sad times :((
 
I work in the repairs department of an electronics company, so literally tens of thousands of things over the years.

But it's how I got into electronics in the first place, taking old radio's and telly's found on scrap heaps and pulling them to bits when I was a kid. The turning point in my life was the day I got a desolder pump.
 
I failed. No matter what I do I cannot get stereo sound from my mixer. After 8 long years it might be time to trash her. Sad times :((
8 years is longer than a lot of mixers would last...

Does it still work in mono? It may be worth sticking it up on ebay as spares/repairs....

I'm always amazed by how much some broken stuff fetches on there....
 
When I got my new iphone I tried to change the battery and back case of the old onee for my girlfriend. Needless to say, because the phone had literally been crushed into my pocket, when I took it apart it fell apart, a tiny piece of the board snapped off and I bricked the phone.

Oh well, I still had the new one :D
 
I'm happy to buy soemthign that's broken if I'm sure I can fix it (and if I'm looking for a particular thing) If I've alreadfy fixed somethign similar I'll have a go, or soemtimes just go for a challenge.

most recent would be a monitor, headset, phone, laptop, compact camera and a mouse. and I'm waiting on parts for a dishwasher (yes I bought it in the end lol) at the moment. I'm getting a ps3 in the next few days that if I can fix I can keep. It's a decent way to get hold of things, but I don't think I'd do it without researching it first, or having never done anything like it in the past. If there's very minimal outlay I'm tempted to just go for it.

I also tend to DIY a lot of stuff, so if there's somthing I want which I think I can make I'll think about just making one myself. I'm about to make a large sheepskin rug from hides instead of buying the one I see for £250 in a shop's window every day :D It will cost me about £60.
 
Replaced graphics cards in laptops, repaired a microwave. My philosophy is that you can't break something thats already broken unless you are a government minister.
 
I fixed all sorts.

Laptops, TVs, Projectors, Desktops, Phones, House Phones, DVD Players, House Alarms, Consoles, Websites, Hard Drives, Water Coolers, Light Systems, Wireless APs, Servers, VHS, Camcorders, Printers, Monitors, Cables, Mice....the list can go on.
 
A Nanometrics LynX, a Nanometrics 9010, a Nanometrics IMpulse and a Nanometrics Caliper Mosaic
 
What's Nanometrics? ^
Replaced graphics cards in laptops, repaired a microwave. My philosophy is that you can't break something thats already broken unless you are a government minister.

After taking apart a microwave once I now consider whatever is going on in there to be some sort of black magic... Kudos for even attempting to try and fix one of those bad boys :eek:
 
Replaced the charging board in an Inspiron 1545 which meant removing everything from the laptop, only had 1 screw left over and it charges now, so that's a success in my book.
 
Anything that electronic that breaks I attempt to fix with varying success rates! Most recently just a resolder job on a laptop charger jack, I had so many ghetto fixes on my c64 when I was a kid it wasn't even funny.
 
Recently: Xbox 360 wireless reciever, needed a new fuse as apparantly these blow all the time. Bit of solder, job done.


I tried that fix with no luck :(


I've fixed
TV's - internal fuses and the like.
VCR's - same as TV's, but also really gungy heads.
Old dot matrix calculator printer.
Snes - that was a PITA, the internal fuse went and I had to bodge together a screwdriver for it (this was many moons ago).
Hoovers.
Washing Machines (pretty much everything bar the timer).
Dishwashers.
Various power tools (new brushes, bearings etc*)
Most recently a pair of Dell 2007's that had both suffered the C137 (I think it was) failure, resulting in an inability to get a horizontal lock on the incoming signals (rolling image) - about an hour each to get them open and replace the caps :)

*Both Bosch and B&D tend to have spares for most of their models (or did last time I needed some) - one of the fixes was for a (then) 10+ year old drill, they still did the bearings.
 
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