Viewers Broken Items - Can I FIX them?
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Hi, in this video I attempt to fix a whole bundle of faulty items sent into my PO Box from viewers of the channel. Hopefully the faults and items will be varied. Let's see if any of them can be fixed.
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Remember that this is just for entertainment and I am not an expert in these repairs. The processes in the video may not be the best way, the correct way or the safest way to fix these things. I do love fault finding and trying to fix broken things, so I hope that comes across in this 'Trying to FIX' series. Many thanks, Vince.
Always funny to hear Mrs. MyMateVince in the background putting away glassware or doing something in the background. Will we ever meet Mrs. MyMateVince? lol
great fix's, live the test CD, walked into a record shop once, wearing a Motorhead tee shirt and denim jacket, and went up to the counter with a Daniel O'Donnell CD, and said "its for my mom" and the cashier replied, "they all say that sir"
The solution to the CD player was obvious... place the Daniel O'Donnel CD inside, then superglue it shut. Now it will never open unintentionally and always has the correct CD ready to play.
Ok, That last one shows that you're a real class act! Hope ya enjoyed the fix Damian! Glad to have you with us!
AGND = Analog ground, DGND = Digital ground, DVDD or DVCC = Digital Voltage supply (DD = CMOS (MOSFET drain), CC = TTL (BJT colector)), AVCC or AVDD = ANALOG Voltage supply (DD = CMOS (MOSFET drain), CC = TTL (BJT colector)), VEE or VSS = Negative voltage supply (EE = BJT emiter, SS = MOSFET source)
What is vire-
@@rayhowe4354 Do you perhaps mean "via"? It does sound a bit like vire with the British accent. If so a via is a tiny hole drilled through a circuit board that is plated with metal to connect the tracks between the different layers of the circuit board. In this particular case, they're especially relevant as they're often more susceptible to being damaged by corrosion than the rest of the traces on the board.
Fantastic video, as always, Vince. According to SD Association standards, full size SD cards have two VSS pins. MicroSD cards have only one VSS. That's why they have a different number of pins.
Are you sure about that? I always thought the write protect toggle on the side used that ninth pad… anyways, thanks Vince for another entertaining video!
Hi Vince. The german word "Dachshund" translates literally to "Badgerdog" and is pronounced in german something like "Duckshoond". Greetings from germany.
To clarify, there's a break between the s and h, so it's something like "ducks-hoond", with the oo being a short vowel as in "foot."
I would have said it's more like "dax-hoond" but yep, entirely correct.
Funny note, when I first moved to Germany and was learning the language I thought it meant "Roof-dog" for Dach instead of Dachs.
Regarding the Sega Game Gear, I once had a gameboy advance that was in the same condition. Granted it definitely needs a lot of work, but honestly it was a rewarding experience getting so much damage repaired and seeing it work against all odds. Tackling visible damage without having to think about it is therapeutic sometimes. I went over all the broken vias and traces with a fibreglass pen so I could physically see the break and repair it. You’ll also be surprised how many will clean up. If you wick up the solder from inside the vias you could run two through-hole jumper wires, going from point A on the top side of the board, going to point B & C on the underside.
If the vias are full of corrosion poke it out with the end of some tweezers, clean with IPA and then run the wires.
Come on Vince it’s vintage! It deserves a revisit! Beyond economical repair is for the manufacturers!
My gameboy advance still works 2 years later by the way!
That picture with the IPA gave me a laugh! :D Its only on there for 2 measly seconds.. but 7:33 for anyone who needs a smile after a hard day.
Def worth putting up on a wall
I’d buy the tee shirt! 😂
Same, I just laughed hard whilst my partner went; ‘what’s with this whole isopropyl alcohol thing?!’ 😅
I find alcohol often helps with my fixes. If I use enough, I don't care if it ends up worse than before I started ...
Alsohalism is horrible to joke about it’s not funny look here everyone this gentleman believes making people laugh at something he is misleading his peers to believe by suggesting he has it under control by joking about something in a way that makes light of his situation which isn’t making it ok,better,easier.. it’s not helpful and the mask doesn’t remove the problem the hurt the pain or will it create long lasting happiness and it won’t do anything but possible help you lie to yourself yet again. Shameful get some help. I hope you can see the truth. Please do try everything possible to run away from running away.
@@S.A.V.A.G.E._L.I.F.E. Ah! A Puritan speaks.
@@S.A.V.A.G.E._L.I.F.E. seeing how you named yourself savage life maybe mind your own business and worry about your own problems like grasping spelling and writing in the English language. Learn to sound some stuff out and stop running from your spelling problems and hiding your pain in TH-cam comments. We can all see your hurt it shows in your spelling skills. Probably have trouble with comprehension skills as well. Maybe mind your own business it's free and if you've never been an alcoholic or had to deal with that then who are you to say someone is or isn't based off a person who has a drink and tinkers with his own stuff.
Don't mix them, though:
- IPA on the board;
- ethanol in your mouth.
@@S.A.V.A.G.E._L.I.F.E. Alsohalism is an absolute tragedy we should never laugh about.
Entertaining as always, you can't win them all. Over-moulding a fragile cable in a bendable boom mic, classic!
thanks to you i'm repairing mostly faulty audio systems and last week i got literally a brand new Teufel stereo system for like 30€ because it had a very similiar issue as the Sony micro stereo system. It was described as faulty. 10 Minutes of work and i got a fully working Stereo for one-twentieth of the original price. ^^
Oof, yeah that Sega Game Gear would need so much work that it would be faster to make a whole new board through PCB Way
My thoughts exactly. New board video?
The headphones were fun to watch with the length you took it to to get a fix, something that is quite unique to you i think.
Vince gives me hope where my clergy has failed :O》
Maybe the extra pin on the SD Adapter is related to the lock on the side, as you can lock the SD card adapter so it is not readable, although I do not know how it works electrically.
Have been enjoying your videos!
If it even works electronically instead of like the old 3.5" floppy or VHS tapes where a pin falls into the opening.
It is a write protect feature. You can use it to make card read only, and on adapter and SD cards it is simply a piece od plastic. Detection of it is inside reader itself, not card.
Nice video. I think the 9th pin is for the write lock. Normal SD Card has a lock, micoSD has not...
And for microSD, the signal tells the host that the card is not locked
Nah, it's just an extra ground pin. The write protect switch is integrated into the socket, the little plastic slider on the card is just a piece of plastic kind of like the write protect on a 3.5" floppy disk.
Well done on the headphones (I sent them). Knew you’d fix them!
…and thanks for putting them in a video. 👍
Cheers for sending them in!!! 👍👍👍👍
Mics on those types of headseats are usually electret or condenser. Put your meter onto capacitance range (nF or pF) and if its working the reading will be steady with silence, but flucuate with sound.
Thanks Dash, that's really useful to know 👍👍👍
AGND is Analogue Ground and DGND is digital Ground, they are kept separate in audio circuits because digital (fast) signals can be very noisy !...cheers.
Thank you Andy Mouse 👌
For the Sega, an ultrasonic cleaner could be a good way to remove the stains and oxide. Just remember to remove the display and the electrolitics caps and then give the board a good wash 😊
I could literally watch Vince try and fix things 24/7 and never get bored of it unfortunately i've seen pretty much every video he's uploaded.
I saved his Bang & Olufsen fixes as a Mix Video😊
One of the most criciql measurements in a cd player is the distance of disc surface to laser emitting point. If that had been drop to cause faulty movement of tray then you'd think las3r may be damaged also.
Great repair Keep up the effort.
Game gear shell is ideal for the Zega Mame Gear kit, 55 quid and you've got a really nifty handheld in a dead machine carcass.
He could also order a replacement board and repair the Game Gear, maybe add a new screen to it as well.
That's a possibility too.
If you're looking ahead to a new challenge once the Roller is back to showroom condition Vince, there's what looks to be an abandoned Bentley in Keston Mews in Watford. I don't know whether it's available but the moment I saw it I thought of you 😀👍
The sim card was my favourite, memories mean more than material things.
Keep up the good work Vincent 🤗.
Nice fix on all of what was fixable, Vince :)
Ultrasonicly welded stuff like that memory card adapter or a laptop charger usually come apart with a little help of some 95 octane petrol. One drop, you let it run around the weld, then wipe off so it does not melt the plastic, and it should come apart easily.
We haven't been able to get that stuff, since they had to remove the lead.😅
@@chrisprobert6 The pure petrol/gasoline you can get in small bottles generally meant for cleaning would be around that octane rating but more importantly works for this task, acetone would probably also work decently well on some plastics like ABS.
@@oliverer3 acetone destroys all plastics in my experience
@@chrisprobert6 There's plenty of plastics acetone has very little or no effect on but they're unlikely to be used for something that is ultrasonically welded.
@@oliverer3 Lighter fuel (esp the expensive non-black-smoky stuff like Zippo branded), or is that not high enough rated?
I have a couple of those Sony CD players, not surprised that the output transistors are big... pretty good sound with some decent speakers attached. Nice easy fix too.
Please use that IPA photo in all other future videos. Love it!
Had a couple result fixes, fixed yesterday a super rare all white Pulsar V657 chrono and today got working a Lorus Fusion with a Seiko 7T62 movement inside... super super happy adding two abs beauts to the collection :D
YES! more random junk! Best videos, honest faults as you say.
Maybe it is junk to you for some people it's memories 😊
1:56 That's a nice unit - separate AM (loop), FM (Co-ax) and DAB (F-Conn) external aerial connectors! Shame it's not DAB+ compatible as almost everything is DAB+ nowadays!
Hi Vince I love watching your TH-cam videos I has given me confidence to try and fix some of my own items I find your videos very interesting thanks I’ll keep visiting them
Hi Vince, I would certainly recommend the RCminder DH30 MAX battery spot welder. I have been using it to rebuild power tool batteries and so far has been great. It also has a 10,000mAh internal battery that you recharge via usb-c.
It is quite powerful, I must say.
I've been looking for one instead of building one. I want to save cells from a stack of laptop batteries I have and like you mentioned, build some tool batteries. Thank you for the advice
❤ 1 hour video. Viewers items make it extra exciting.
I dig the red mat, too. It makes everything pop.
Going to need that photo of Vince and the isopropyl alcohol on a my mate Vince mug.
Great Job as always Vince👍. Nice easy fix on the Sony CD, shame about that projector it looks a nice bit of kit. The game gear as you said would need too much work. I had similar when I looked at that Cricut vinyl cutter that suffered a similar fate. Great idea with the heat shrink on the headset mic. Strange co-incidence that we ended up both doing viewer repairs at the same time 😂😂
Hi vince
I recommend (glitter 801B or 801D) spot welder, it's amazing
I have both 😊
Hi Vince and thank you for the fresh batch of entertainment.
Cheers Marcel 👍
I recently repaired a Pioneer CD/Radio with has a wonderful rising screen when you turned it on. It had CD problems and I discovered that it was worn after years of use and wouldn't engage the CD drive mechanisms. I got it work but it was unreliable and I found a replacement for only £10 on ebay. I imagine that many of the CD players from the late 80-90's are starting to have mechanical problems.
Just a guess/hazy memory, but the extra pin on an SD card was the write protect switch IIRC, which micro SD doesn't have. Love the channel, keep up the good work.
That Daniel O'Donnell will be talked about more than the Yellow Mat...lol - Great video again Vince!
A really nice variety of fixes. Have I mentioned that I like the red Matt? But the yellow Matt is by far my favourite.
I like that Weller work mat!
Great fixes as always! It hurts to see a GameGear die, but some are just too hard to repair. It´s sad that so many people thinks that they just need recaps. It´s the least problem of them...
Thank you for reparing this last item - micro to SD adapter. Fate in humanity slightly restored.
About that projector, you had it on radio and bluetooth. Maybe it did nothing because it had to be switched to video mode? I have a similar one (very very cheap chinese one) that when is on radio/bluetooth do not display video, but with a SD card in it turn video on. Also, to use it as projector, I need to give it some signal on VGA, AV or HDMI. It also have a button on its remote to switch the video off (or maybe only the LED turn off to save power or to protect the LED).
I'm a bit late to comment. I just saw the video re the faulty microphone.
I'm thinking of replacing the microphone wires with the LED wires.
No LED working, not needed.
The microphone will work!
happy 500th episode of trying to fix it guys! time to bring out the expensive tea bags!
My Denon hifi does the ghost opening and closing all the time, cleaned and checked everything I could see but still does it and now got an AIO Panasonic which a "space age" sliding CD door, iPhone dongle that comes out like a tongue and plays USB stuff as well. I bought it for a tenner spares or repair and all it was, was a mains plug fuse had blown.
Hi Vince, easiest way to say the dog breeds name is Daxhund, Dachs being German for badger, bred originally for hunting badgers I believe.
Love the videos, do keep 'em coming 😁
In America, it is pronounced similarly to Datsun, the old name for Nissan. But with an x sound instead of t.
OMG the previous recap on that game gear is shudder worth.
Those capacitors were really into their limbo game, FR. A+ flex.
With Lithium Ion batteries, the key rating is maximum continuous discharge current, which will be in amps. That's the amount of juice it can safely push out at once. As long as the replacement battery is equal to or higher than the original, you'll be fine. Amp Hours (or milliamp hours) is a measure of capacity. A one amp hour battery can supply one amp for one hour, or two amps for 1/2 hour, or 1/2 amp for two hours, etc. As far as safety goes, it doesn't matter, but a lower rating will go flat sooner. As for INR vs ICR, it doesn't really matter. The charging and discharge voltages are close enough to the same between chemistries that they are interchangeable.
Additionally, max/continuous [dis]charge ratings might be given in 'C' too, multiples of the capacity.
A 2000mAh (2Ah) cell rated 20C can do 2x20=40A
Some good fixes. I did like the SD card fix and thank you Damian for sending that in. Sometimes its the simple fixes that impress. I did also love the isopropyl picture that flashed up, I am sure it was noticed by the facebook members.
You inspired that photo Emma 😂 👍
The game gear is a perfect candidate for a new replacement motherboard from SYF. Just need to harvest the ASIC, RAM, and cartridge connector.
Would love to see Vince try that out!
Dachshund is German. Dachs = Badger, Hund = dog. A dog bred to hunt badgers
I've got a high end multiregion Sony 4k blu ray player (think I paid around £800) plays then after a while it stops showing the picture like it's overheating. Quite happy to send it to you for a video, I'm struggling to even get into it
That IPA photo had me laughing
A new my mate Vince video!! Yesss! My day is set😊
27:05 Oh heck yeah, lithium batteries don't like being charged to 100% frequently or discharged to 0% frequently, but that's exactly the life they live in power banks. And they can ultimately end up in exactly the fault condition that you found: self-discharge. I'm told that this is because the electrodes form microscopic whiskers that bridge through the electrolyte.
49:00 Your heat-shrink finishing of the microphone arm reminds me of something I did at work a few years ago: I was wearing cheap sunglasses and managed to break one of the arms. I didn't feel like going out and buying another pair just yet, and it was a pair of sunglasses I would wear only at work anyways. So I mended it with a pair of heat shrink tubes - a slightly larger one over a smaller one for rigidity. Then a few months later the other arm broke, so I did the same fix again. Still have 'em. 😂
LED ground patch should work. Even if original ground is snaped, it would be still connected to the ground on both sides, so interference would be minimal.
i love going on youtube after a long day and seeing a new my mate vince video :)
I have the wireless version of the Corsair void elite headset that you repaired the mic wire on. They are good but the fact that the mic is moulded is what lets them down.
1st fix great one Vince! .... I thought you wasn't gonna fix that one 😂
Not sure what that tiny laptop thing is but it looks interesting.
I got that Sony system. Sounds really good to me.
Nice fixes, good idea to finish the headset arm with heat shrink tube :) Interesting the memory card converter too, one of those refused to work for me even it was new. Also plenty of MicroSD cards have failed for me, so that media seems to be the most unreliable in my experience. Even currently my phone locked up the MicroSD card, because there's some fault detected.
You can discharge caps by shorting the live and return on the mains plug. (Obviously not plugged in 😉)
Congrats on your fixes. Shame about that projector, it looks really well built. Maybe the DLP itself is simply dead.
The SD card has one extra pin for the write-protect switch.
I can watch the 3 dogs all day
PLEASE VINCE, BRING BACK THE BLUE MAT. THANKING YOU IN ADVANCE. 😁
34:43 been waiting for this
It just needs a good clean all those contact points were visibly corroded , board looked good.
I remember someone at school having the game gear and a TV adaptor, thought it was the coolest thing ever.
part of me wants to send My old IBM T42 Motherboard to Vince to Reflow the GPU On (unlike most GPUs a reflow can actually be permanent on these as the chip isnt at fault). But i recently came into possession of a new motherboard which works flawlessly so no need!..but I'll keep the old board around.
0:30 Can we call the stereo an absolute unit? 🤣🤣🤣
you could use small singel brade gage wire .i have done it in previus same wire problem. Problem is t b straight s gets in easier for the microphone
Vince , why don't you invest in some micro drills and just drill through the via, thread a strand of wire through, solder either side easier than loads of crossing wires, just a thought as I've done this before
Great vids though , how's the roller going .
I so much look forward to this thank you very much indeed
Hi Vince, as a German speaker I can tell you that Dachshund is pronounced more or-less DAX HUND not HoUnd but hund and translates into literally Badger dog or Badger Hound. Dachs is Badger in German and Hound is Dog or Hound.
@24:30 Did you add thermal paste after you scraped off the old dried up stuff? It could have a thermal protection check, mid-bootup as with CPUs/GPUs. I have had CPUs that were missing just a tiny amount of paste, which resulted in only about 70% or so of the surface actually covered. And that prevented the entire CPU from working -- preventing the entire system from POSTing. The CPU clearly has some way (embedded thermistors) of knowing how hot it gets, and there are sometimes motherboard sensors under it as well. So I would make sure you put new paste on it. CPUs actually have a good number of thermal sensors on them, not just one. So I think there is a good chance that there is at least one thermal sensor on that particular piece/die of silicon in your projector. And if you don't put the putty between the surfaces to bridge those surfaces and dissipate the heat, it may prevent further progress beyond that to protect itself. I know you said you were going to remove the putty. But I don't recall you saying you were going to replace it with fresh, nor did I see you do so in the video. You seemed more interested in making sure that the pins were making full connection, and you thought that the dried up paste was actually preventing the pins from contacting -- perfectly logical thinking, but only half of the problem...the die still needs cooling. I think they essentially warm up just a tiny bit and then check to see if that heat gets dissipated first before actually proceeding into fully-on mode. You can't just assume that it'll fully work and produce video until it gets hot and then shut off, which TBH it seems you did.
That game gear is bad. It should have been clear to anyone that recapping would be pointless.
The capacitors realy did a number on it. Hit it with some pcb cleaner and a soft toothbrush to ensure all the electrolyte crap is gone, and pack it away for spare parts.
On a side note, what is that little computer your using while fixing the headphones/mic ?
Great vid. 👍
I had a break in a wire close to the jack on a set of Behringer headphones. Try as i might, i could not get the solder to tin the cables when replacing the jack.
The Game Gear would defo be a Labour of love or buy one with crud case or screen and swop out parts, the sd card if I get a faulty one I throw em out as they cost penny’s & not sure about extra pin, nice work on the headset &Hifi system & I’d say ur right to give up on the projector.
Great Video again !!!
That Corsair headset is the reason I stopped buying Corsair peripherals. Had so many issues with them and so high of a cost to have all those issues.
I think you missed a detail on the CD drive at 6:35-7:20, black plastik pin holding the PCB in place on the right side, is broken. Probably should have been glued to add stability otherwise the problem could easily happen again.
I'm sure that those people who wish to repair electrical items with the idea of selling them on to some else, make sure to carry out electrical safety tests FIRST!
Vince would also agree, that if you follow his advice, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK, BOTH PERSONALY AND LEGALLY!
TAKE CARE OUT THERE!
Hey my mate Vince I am known as my new name is AmyRose which is a member of your Patreon group
Large chip you saw was probably an STK type which is the power regulator chip
the dlp chip is just the mirror the lamp in it is bad since there is no light coming out but it stays on I would say it uses some kind of led cob
the way a dlp projector works is by taking a light source running it through a color timing wheel that separates the 3 colors needed then reflects that off of the dlp chip using the timing set on the wheel to reflect only the color needed for each pixel
a damaged dlp chip would result in the picture being all black or white but you could still see some light in the lens even if it was all black typically if the chip go's bad it starts with a few bad pixels so i am sure your problem is in the lighting section on older dlp projectors they had a bulb replacement door so for that led one you may have to dig a bit further into it then test the led power rail when its on i bet its just one bad led in the array
Vince, don't those large caps have leak-down resistors to bleed off the voltage for safety reasons? You're a good detective. You don't miss much. A regular Mark Furman.
dont spot weld the very centre as you can melt the glue holding the cathode :)
The Daniel O'Donnell CD, I think my mum probably has that CD, or it might even be on 'Compact Cassette.' I don't know if any of your video's got content matches, but when you were repairing those portable cd players, the second one, after you found the disc, in the first cd player, well you played enough of it for me to work out what the first song is... Initially the content, off of the CD was garbled, but I think Daniel O'Donnell is covering a song by another artist, which should be 'Welcome to my World' best known for being performed byJim Reeves, it was definitely a #1 7" single during the earlier part of the 1960's, in the UK. Jim Reeves was and remains my mum's favourite performer of music, in any genre of music. Yeah I heard his music quite a bit during my childhood, sort of like it now, or better understand how good he can sing, but didn't like it at all, as a child.
Yes, the Sega Game Gear, is screweed. 😢
Isopropyl alcohol and Daniel o donnall my life is complete 😂
Interesting the hifi ejecting cd’s.I have an original XBox that does the same,opens and closes at random.
Usually a TV has an audio and a visual output of the circuit. My guess is that the visual output of your circuit on the projector is down. This would explain why the sound is working
For fixing broken vias you can just stick a 0,6mm wire thru the via and solder it to the traces on both sides
Looking at the pin out, it looks like the SD card adapter has an additional VSS2 (ground pin), not sure why it's there or if it's even ever used. But the pin outs show the Micro SD card only has 1 ground pin and the adapter has 2 ground pins.
Love the videos! How would someone go about donating a item for repair to you? I would be very interested in that, thanks again and keep up the great content!
If the sense switch on the "cd in" isn't bridged, then it's logic signal is no good. It could be a zener lock or the chip is bad