Heathkit Tuner Saved From Junk Pile
We miss the old Heathkit. You could build equipment that rivaled or even surpassed commercial devices. The cost was usually reasonable and, even if you could get by with less, the satisfaction of u…
Heathkit Tuner Saved From Junk Pile
We miss the old Heathkit. You could build equipment that rivaled or even surpassed commercial devices. The cost was usually reasonable and, even if you could get by with less, the satisfaction of u…
Fixing An E-Waste ASUS P5A-B Socket 7 Mainboard
A fun part of retro computing is saving ‘e-waste’ that was headed for certain destruction. These boards can have any number of defects, modifications and more that have to be remedied p…
Resin Injection CRT Cataract Surgery On Macintosh Monitor
Nothing lasts forever, but you’d think the leaded-glass face of a CRT would not be a place you’re likely to see Father Time causing failures. Alas, the particle accelerators we all lovi…
User Repair Of A Not User-Repairable Victron CCGX Issue
Power banks come in many sizes, and those that target construction sites are probably among the largest. The massive four ton unit based around lead-acid batteries which the [Buy it Fix it] YouTube…
Diagnosing A Mysterious Fault With A Commodore 1541 Disk Drive
Recently [TheRetroChannel] came across an interesting failure mode on a Commodore 1541 5.25″ floppy disk drive, in the form of the activity LED blinking just once after power-up with the driv…
Restoring A Commodore PET 3032 In Rough Condition
The Commodore CBM 3032 is a successor to the original Commodore PET 2001, yet due a conflicting trademark issue with Philips these first European PETs were called ‘CBM’ instead. Hence t…
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