Field Trips
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The Repair Cafe Bench, Saturday Edition
SCAN ARCHIVE
Joysticks, a cassette deck and one very determined toaster.
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NOTES
We took a table at the town repair cafe and fixed whatever turned up. Most of it was retro, some of it was not, and all of it went home working.
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Nice work. For anyone reading: the service manual is on page 14 of the archive scans.
This takes me straight back to Saturday mornings at my cousin’s house.
This is exactly the write-up I needed before opening mine. Bookmarked.
I tried this last winter and skipped the discharge step. Do not skip the discharge step.
The sound on this one still gives me goosebumps.
Composite gang, checking in.
Did you check the ripple on the 5V rail before and after? Curious how much it moved.
Same here. Seems like the whole production run had it.
We had one of these in the school library. Nobody was allowed to touch it.
Posting this to our club channel, a few of us have been stuck on the same fault.
Would love a follow-up in six months to see how the recap holds up.