Vince's Ebay Repair Thread - (Console Repairs & Mods)

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Yea ive been running the same £35 rework station for about 5 years :D Does brilliant tbh. It's an 858D
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Thanks again - I’ll just go ahead and grab one of those in that case. Just need to find a suitable one now. They all seem to go under the 858d moniker, and some of them look very shoddily built…not sure I’d want a dodgy one in my house!
 
This thread made me realise that I've not seen @Kreeeee post for ages, last posted June 2022, always makes you think, especially as he was also a biker so mind can't help but go to dark places. Does anyone know if he's alive and well?

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Noxia said:
This thread made me realise that I've not seen @Kreeeee post for ages, last posted June 2022, always makes you think, especially as he was also a biker so mind can't help but go to dark places. Does anyone know if he's alive and well?

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Not sure, haven't seen him in MOH area in a while either. I'll find out!!

Bit of an image dump of some things I've been working on...

This game was useless to me so I rom swapped it, and honestly this new game is a great little game!!







Another GBC build.. this time its a squirtle!!





And I decided to fix some more of these bad boys... love these little things!!

 
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Done quite a bit today and quite a bit also turned up!!

First up I finished up a retrobrite and restore on a snes:







I then had 4 switches sent in for repair all of which are now fixed!

And all these goodies turned up:



So I fixed and reshelled/reprogrammed a set of joycons!



Switches are all packed up ready to be sent to respective homes in the morning. I did take a load of pics but nothing really interesting, just ports, filters around pi3 on one, just boring easy repairs.
 
Good work on the SNES! Was that all done by wiping a product on it and then using UV?

Oh, bit the bullet and bought a Yihua 959d hot air rework station. Haven’t unboxed it yet, but will let you know how it goes when I do.
 
Diggsy said:
Good work on the SNES! Was that all done by wiping a product on it and then using UV?

Oh, bit the bullet and bought a Yihua 959d hot air rework station. Haven’t unboxed it yet, but will let you know how it goes when I do.
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Yea it was super yellow so i just coated it in 40% peroxide gel with a paint brush and put it under a 15w UV flood light. I re-apply a bit every 4 hours or so, so it doesn't dry out and after about 12 hours the yellow is generally gone :)
 
Vince said:
Yea it was super yellow so i just coated it in 40% peroxide gel with a paint brush and put it under a 15w UV flood light. I re-apply a bit every 4 hours or so, so it doesn't dry out and after about 12 hours the yellow is generally gone :)
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Sounds simple enough. Must give that a go on some of my laser printer panels. Checked earlier and was somewhat amazed when I realised I bought it at the start of 2008 - quite the purchase, almost 16yrs of service for about £140 :D
 
I fixed a few more joycons last night, slowly getting through my box of joycon spares and building as many as I can. Waiting for some parts for the right joycons and some more right ones I've ordered to come in but right now I have an abundance of left ones all fixed up.

 
I thought you couldn't get the stuff for retrobright in the uk anymore? I looked into it as my snes is yellow and just saw people complaining you can't get the hydrogen peroxide in a high enough concentration for it to work properly :(. I never looked into it any further after that.
 
I have an OG Xbone and an Xbox one S you can keep if you wanna do some sort of trade deal. I don't know if I'm breaking the rules right now,be gentle with me mods.
 
Hey Vince have you ever changed/upgraded the switches on a logitech mouse? Wanting to do it to mine as I'm getting the double click issue but I don't have the knowledge, skills or tools.
 
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