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

Well today is seemingly the day people wanted to buy all my crap.... Today I sold a limited edition 360, special edition spiderman pad, 2 PS5 disc editions, a megadrive 2 and basically anything "good" that was left... All I have now is basically modded GG's and my for sale bench is as sparse as I think it has ever been.

On the plus side more toys (not much but some) should land tomorrow including more playstation, more xbox, pads etc.
 
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I said I bought a silly amount of elite pad mod gear...



We have everything all in different colours and stuff... Should be able to make some cool pads!!

Oh and elite hall effects as well... Nice
 
Crikey, I'm out for a couple of days and Vince has fixed and shipped a whole warehouse full of kit.

"The wireless pad, when you put some batteries in and hold down the button at the front it should light up. I think I have a 360 pad here ill get you a pic."

Thanks for this, controller was taken apart, cleaned and the joystick pots replaced. Replaced the battery and it now fires up and works a treat.
No1 360 is indeed a Red ring box, so I've started cannibalising it. I bought a 360 No2. A non-starter with a known disc problem and no HDD. This has now been cleaned up. I took apart the disc and it was gunge everywhere. The 360 case had been apart previously, but properly as no damage to the clips, but inside was a rusty red sticky furry dust everywhere. I booted up with a memory stick and after a number of updates it appears to be work properly. I got a 60gn SDD for peanuts in a BF sale. I'll need to Fat32 it before trying to fit.

The fix for my speedo and revo on the Sportbrake wasn't 100% successful. They lite up but they're way to dim to get passed all the plastic. I've got some extra bright ones to try and will give this a go over the w/e (RealLife permitting)
 
I've got a handful of Xbox controllers suffering from stick drift - I've been reading that it's possible to replace the standard 'resistor' type with 'hall effect' or even 'TMR' joysticks, and notice that you can get both from Aliexpress. I did a quick search of the thread and can't see if you've had a go at doing either yet.

I've also got some PS4 controllers, some Switch JoyCons and some Viper charging docks that have all pooped themselves to various levels...
 
bloodiedathame said:
I've got a handful of Xbox controllers suffering from stick drift - I've been reading that it's possible to replace the standard 'resistor' type with 'hall effect' or even 'TMR' joysticks, and notice that you can get both from Aliexpress. I did a quick search of the thread and can't see if you've had a go at doing either yet.

I've also got some PS4 controllers, some Switch JoyCons and some Viper charging docks that have all pooped themselves to various levels...
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Yea hall effects are available for basically anything these days and we have been doing a lot of pads recently.. ps4/5 and Xbox are all pretty easy to sort.
 
Hi Vince,

Not sure if you saw a post I tagged you in but I have a controller with a funny issue with just the LB. The manufacturers said "problem with the electrowelding" though this may be a translation thing.

It is one of these which I doubt you've handled before, it has a magnetic metal faceplate and fancy K-Silver TMR sticks: https://www.pbtails.com/products/me...ooth-wireless-gaming-controllers-tmr-joystick

I did a video for them to explain which I can also provide or expand on. I am offering this up purely in case you are interested in it from a novel/challenge angle. They have sent me a new working one so I have zero expectation or time issues with this meaning even if you fancy it but don'#t think you would get to it for 6 months that is fine. I just don't know what else to do with it and it feels a waste throwing it away. I suppose I could try and turn it into a decoration or something otherwise :)

@mrk peer pressured me in to buying one so I'm still blaming him.
 
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Noxia said:
Hi Vince,

Not sure if you saw a post I tagged you in but I have a controller with a funny issue with just the LB. The manufacturers said "problem with the electrowelding" though this may be a translation thing.

It is one of these which I doubt you've handled before, it has a magnetic metal faceplate and fancy K-Silver TMR sticks: https://www.pbtails.com/products/me...ooth-wireless-gaming-controllers-tmr-joystick

I did a video for them to explain which I can also provide or expand on. I am offering this up purely in case you are interested in it from a novel/challenge angle. They have sent me a new working one so I have zero expectation or time issues with this meaning even if you fancy it but don'#t think you would get to it for 6 months that is fine. I just don't know what else to do with it and it feels a waste throwing it away. I suppose I could try and turn it into a decoration or something otherwise :)

@mrk peer pressured me in to buying one so I'm still blaming him.
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Not gonna lie that looks pretty awesome. I'd happily have a look and a play with that.
 
Nigel Kingdon said:
Crikey, I'm out for a couple of days and Vince has fixed and shipped a whole warehouse full of kit.

"The wireless pad, when you put some batteries in and hold down the button at the front it should light up. I think I have a 360 pad here ill get you a pic."

Thanks for this, controller was taken apart, cleaned and the joystick pots replaced. Replaced the battery and it now fires up and works a treat.
No1 360 is indeed a Red ring box, so I've started cannibalising it. I bought a 360 No2. A non-starter with a known disc problem and no HDD. This has now been cleaned up. I took apart the disc and it was gunge everywhere. The 360 case had been apart previously, but properly as no damage to the clips, but inside was a rusty red sticky furry dust everywhere. I booted up with a memory stick and after a number of updates it appears to be work properly. I got a 60gn SDD for peanuts in a BF sale. I'll need to Fat32 it before trying to fit.

The fix for my speedo and revo on the Sportbrake wasn't 100% successful. They lite up but they're way to dim to get passed all the plastic. I've got some extra bright ones to try and will give this a go over the w/e (RealLife permitting)
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For your speedo you will struggle.. unless you can work out the exact leds, what I would do is this, each led will have a resistor in series, measure said resistor then simply replace with one like half the resistance, I do exactly this when dialling in Leds, for example, I can tell you that to run a blue led in a game gear you need to swap the 4.7k resistor with a 300k to reduce the brightness.. Leds are getting better and better all the time so instead of trying to match the led simply dial in the resistors.

Another way to do it is to measure the voltage going to the led.. then put the led on the bench supply at that voltage and slowly crank it up until it looks right. Armed with the voltage you require plus the supply voltage (the other side of the led resistor) you can then work out what resistor you need.
 
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This week's stuff is in..







Mostly looks like simple fixes and because this week's is so late (should have been sat) I have yet another delivery coming with another series x, pink PS2 slim and 2 more One X systems and I think that's all.. the remainder should be here sat. Sadly it's a bit slow on the run up to Xmas now in terms of weekly number of items but this lot should keep me busy for a day or 2.
 
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I think I have the correct ones now, being as these things are made by companies who make parts for loads of different makers they all tend to use the same 'parts bin'. I will take on board the bench supply idea tho', just need to refresh my memory of ohms law.
 
Hi @Vince . I have a friend who has an old PS1 that switches on but after a short while of playing a game on it, it either just shuts down or reboots to the main screen.

Is this something you'd be interested in looking at? Are they easy enough to work on?
 
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Hi @Vince . I have a friend who has an old PS1 that switches on but after a short while of playing a game on it, it either just shuts down or reboots to the main screen.

Is this something you'd be interested in looking at? Are they easy enough to work on?
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They are so cheap its barely worth I right now sadly. I've got a little stack of them. It's probably just power supply caps or something simple ps1's rarely really go wrong bar the laser.
 
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