[HN Gopher] Repairing a Gameboy cart that had orange juice spill...
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Repairing a Gameboy cart that had orange juice spilled on it
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Author : gus_massa
Score : 114 points
Date : 2021-10-06 15:19 UTC (3 days ago)
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| robomartin wrote:
| Brings back memories...of the time my girlfriend accidentally
| dumped a glass of orange juice into my fairly new HP41 CV
| calculator. Yes, this was a few decades ago.
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| She was horrified.
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| I was as relaxed as can be. I immediately took the batteries out
| and ran it under cool water while I filled a pot with water.
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| I dunked it in there repeatedly and changed the water a few times
| until it felt it was enough.
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| From there it quickly went into a mesh bag that I spun rapidly to
| centrifuge most of the water out.
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| Finally, it went in the sun while I warmed up the oven to the
| lowest possible temperature.
|
| Once it cooled down the batteries went back in. It worked fine.
| In fact, I still own it. It works. Perfect condition.
|
| Yes, I did marry her later. Now I make sure that calculator is
| nowhere near her...just in case.
| foreigner wrote:
| I spilled orange juice down in to the automatic gearshift of a
| car once. It would have cost a fortune to take it apart to clean
| it, so I just left it. It was sticky for a while, and then just
| gradually went back to normal.
| Fiahil wrote:
| Well, some people don't like to cleanup old wallpapers and
| paint when renovating their home. They all rely on the one-in-
| ten owner who will take appart all the previous layers and
| build fresh to ensure the wall stay healthy and beautiful.
| eddieroger wrote:
| The retro repair videos on YouTube are so quickly becoming my
| favorite content on there. I don't know if I just find the inside
| of computers neat, or it hits hard in the nostalgia, or
| realistically both, but it's so cool to see talented people
| keeping tech alive instead of letting it become trash.
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| geon wrote:
| Necroware has a lot of 386 mainboard repair videos and such.
|
| https://youtube.com/channel/UCKU5nwSWYXa3xfXGBlKyvdw
| gambiting wrote:
| Same, except that there's so much obviously fake content out
| there.....it's awful. Videos where someone pulls out something
| that barely looks like maybe it was a VCR at some point, and
| then in the next scene we're looking at a "repair" of an old
| VCR that had some dirt thrown on it. Very obviously two
| completely different devices.
| NextHendrix wrote:
| Mr Carlson's Lab is also excellent, restoring old radio
| equipment in excruciating detail. A lot of the videos are over
| two hours long, but it makes excellent background viewing.
|
| Also it's always mentioned, but CuriousMarc and Ken Sherriff
| have some amazing restoration videos. In particular the
| excellent series on restoring the apollo guidance computer.
| gchadwick wrote:
| There's something very enjoyable watching people go through the
| debug process, cleaning stuff up and then just doing a nice
| neat job of fixing stuff.
|
| Some channels I enjoy for retro computer/electronics repair:
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| Adrian's Digital Basement:
| https://www.youtube.com/c/adriansdigitalbasement
|
| Jan Beta: https://www.youtube.com/c/JanBeta
|
| Mark Fixes Stuff: https://www.youtube.com/c/markfixesstuff
|
| RMC: https://www.youtube.com/c/RMCRetro (he does lots of non-
| repair retro stuff too, search for Trash to Treasure to see the
| repair stuff).
| mwaitjmp wrote:
| 8 bit show and tell is absolutely brilliant for any c64 fans
| out there ( down to assembly level ), plus a little more
| besides.
| MrGilbert wrote:
| I'd like to add "MyMateVince" to the list:
| https://www.youtube.com/c/Mymatevince
|
| His "Trying to Fix" videos are a pleasure to watch, and
| mostly (not always!) deal with older tech or toys. But he'd
| also try to fix a dead Playstation, for instance. Or a
| 2010-ish Macbook.
| rzzzt wrote:
| I'd like to add Noel's Retro Lab to the list:
| https://www.youtube.com/c/NoelsRetroLab
|
| One nice thing he does is putting a tiny scope probe symbol
| on the part of the schematic diagram he's currently
| investigating.
| ggambetta wrote:
| Similar here, I love restoration videos in general -
| specifically Baumgartner Restoration [0], who restores
| paintings, and anyone who repairs rusted tools or old wooden
| furniture.
|
| I recently realized that this kind of video is at the
| intersection of two of my interests (filmmaking and crafts) so
| I am, in fact, preparing to launch my own channel. Stay tuned
| ;)
|
| [0] https://www.youtube.com/c/BaumgartnerRestoration
| bellyfullofbac wrote:
| Off topic, but I notice many Americans have the tick of saying
| "I'm going to go ahead and..." or "Let's go ahead and..."...
| Qw3r7 wrote:
| That's incredibly relevant lol. Out in the Midwest, we say
| 'ohp' a lot as a tick. I had never noticed this until a buddy
| of mine pointed it out.
| ekianjo wrote:
| > we say 'ohp' a lot as a tick.
|
| In which context?
| jez wrote:
| It's an interjection, usually comes before "sorry" or
| "excuse me"
|
| I love this this video by a couple midwestern comedians
| poking fun at it:
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| https://youtu.be/qb_-taYLRfY
| rhinoceraptor wrote:
| I never even realized it was a midwest thing. It's kind of
| like oops, whoops or excuse me.
| NamTaf wrote:
| The one I notice is "I'm just going to..."
|
| Even within the English-speaking Western world, it's funny how
| you get these cultrual differences :)
| Nexxxeh wrote:
| "...and whatnot."
| asdff wrote:
| These old cartridges were amazingly durable. My Pokemon Blue
| version cartridge went through the laundry several times and was
| fine.
| fcoury wrote:
| I am really addicted to repair videos and the best channel I
| found by far is My Mate Vince. He does a mix of good and old
| stuff, along with both mechanical and electrical fixes.
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| https://youtube.com/c/Mymatevince
|
| Highly recommended!
| dehrmann wrote:
| I have a lot of respect for solder and rework skills like this,
| but at the same time, it doesn't seem worth it for a game you can
| buy for $50.
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