Could try heating the blob chip from the back to re-flow the solder connections, worth a try.

@murraymadness4674

Ай бұрын

good idea, does it ever work?

@tadasrimkus3545

Ай бұрын

was about to comment that

@EgoChip

Ай бұрын

@@murraymadness4674 Only one way to find out.

@j.f.christ8421

Ай бұрын

Won't work, they're wire bonded (like normal ICs), not soldered like BGAs.

@mattinwinkymg

Ай бұрын

@@j.f.christ8421 still worth a shot though

I'm FINALLY famous! In the same video as Dave! Haha Thanks for trying Steve. I'd have loved to have seen it working as it seems a usa exclusive one. Knew I should have got 2 of them instead of an among us figure for my nephew! Cheers again, Stuart.

@Anderyo

Ай бұрын

You are not famous

@unachemaxwell

Ай бұрын

Nice to see you! Get a picture with Dave and you will level up :)

@rorychivers8769

Ай бұрын

@@Anderyo I know him now. Are you jealous of his fame?

@quiddity1977

Ай бұрын

@@Anderyo aren't you a treat?

@jylam_

Ай бұрын

NOOOOOO, the spoiler !

While pressing the 'blob chip' you were also flexing the board. May be broken traces.

@flickpad

Ай бұрын

I was thinking the same. There was a particular joint above the chip that was moving a LOT. Might be worth investigation

Congratulations on rolling over the counter Steve. I like your solution to the 100's. 😅👍

@StezStixFix

Ай бұрын

😂 thanks Chris!

Well done darling. You publish all your stuff, even if it doesn’t work and also, you turn up in your work like an artist. You are a lovely man. Blessed be 💕

@Simon-xc5oy

Ай бұрын

Blessed be?? The Hooded Man shall come to the forest....To be Herne's son and do his bidding.....

@janskeet1382

Ай бұрын

@@Simon-xc5oy Prophecies of Gildas

@Simon-xc5oy

Ай бұрын

@@janskeet1382 Ahhh.....its an old English Pagan greeting so being a child / teen of the 80s I was taken back to Richard Carpenters Robin of Sherwood....a true classic. No clue about Prophesies of Gildas....sorry....

@janskeet1382

Ай бұрын

@@Simon-xc5oy Yes, I’m an old English Pagen. The Prophesies of Gildas are quoted in Carpenter’s Robin of Sherwood.

@Simon-xc5oy

Ай бұрын

@@janskeet1382 Ahh I see. Just know it as Pagan etc and through Robin of Sherwood. It all seems a long time ago now..since the 80s and such great television....Most of the cast are in their 60s and 70s now...how time flies.

Really appreciate you sharing the successes as well as the failures, Steve! Too many KZreadrs only show their successes & conceal the real challenge of DIY repair. It's especially important in these days of anti-right-to-repair efforts on the part of the corps.

Hi from Australia.. i really like watching u have a go at fixing stuff.. i stumbled across your channel by accident and love it!! Im a 50 yr old female who isnt into this stuff but for some reason find this realy interesting and have a chuckle at the little jokes u make.. keep up the great work!

While I honestly don’t like to see you fail it’s comforting to know you do ! Love the videos .

come on Steve do it! for the content baby!!

I’m over the moon with your 107 days since melting plastic, don’t be so quick to blame it after this video, your doing a swell job steve, just remember Dave is you helper, not vice versa. Lol keep up the great videos mate. 🤙🏼🇦🇺 Joe from Australia 🤙🏼🇦🇺

I really love what you've done with the channel! So much character!

Hey, Steve, I think the LCD connector was on the board opposite the blob, could there be a bad connection on the connector, and pressing the blob manipulates it?

Yay, I'm so proud of the counter! It always the first place I look when your videos load up haha. Also, looks like you need to update the other counter and add another 1k! [Hidden down here so not to reveal video spoiler] Stupid blobs. I wonder if maybe a leg of the IC under the blob wasn't soldered well and then the blob stuff got in under a leg or two, preventing contact. Then when you're applying pressure, you're connecting one of the legs but maybe another leg has too much blob under it for pressure to resolve? Shame its so hard to remove blob. BTW, speaking of Dave, you wouldn't believe it but I was repairing a TOMY Super Cup football game (video 'soon') and guess what fell out of the box? A DAVE. I was going to call him Steve and put him in resin, but there's a fine line between imitation and tribute so I gave him a proper burial.

@StezStixFix

Ай бұрын

😂 Dave 2! Love it. Yeah, I might still try and remove that blob. I've been told you can melt it off with some chemically stuff or something. Sounds like hard work though! 😅

@PollokPoochesDogWalking

Ай бұрын

​@@StezStixFixI'd be well up for watching a video of you melting a blob off!!

@hapskie

Ай бұрын

Thank you for hiding spoiler information, wish everyone would do that!

@iaincowell9747

Ай бұрын

@@StezStixFix Try a heat gun to soften it first. From what i've heard about the chemical way, it takes harsh and nasty chemicals that you definitely don't want to be breathing in (some can also damage the board)

@j.f.christ8421

Ай бұрын

@@iaincowell9747 You can't get the epoxy off without causing damage.

something stupid that i found interesting regarding the blue mat, the circular indentation to the right of Dave is to hold a loupe! I saw this on one of My Mate Vince's videos.

I watch your videos on my walk in the morning here in California. Fun stuff man love the videos.

I always wonder, do people get there items back when they send them in? Or are they alway making a one way trip?

Just wanted to say thank after watching a lot of your videos I had ago at fixing a broken security camera I had and was able to get it working so again thanks.😊

1st time watching your videos, was caught off guard with the bars, good stuff 💯

can't fix em all, oh well. still cool to see inside it, great video!

I really hoped this was going to be a fix! I know you can find the videos of the Jurassic Park tv' on YT but, it would have been interesting to see you pull them off the flash chip. (I've done it from a couple of old toys with screens) It's definitely worth learning how to do!

I loved the PM Dawn jam. nice one!

Great video as always. Incidentally I read recently that paleontologists have discovered a dinosaur that appears to have eaten nothing but curry during its life… they are going to name it Mega Sore Arse. 😂 regards

@janskeet1382

Ай бұрын

😅

@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co

Ай бұрын

OH MY GOD

Alternative Comment: Bob, The Builder: 'Can we fix it?'. Steve: 'Well, we can try!'.

Love your videos made me start my Channel ! 😊

Bloody hell Steve, all this time I’ve been watching and I didn’t realise you were just up the road in Bolton! 😂

🤩❤️ Great vidéo ! Can try re heat the blob or swap the memory chip on another miniature tv

Blobby Blobby Blobby!!! (Only those in the UK of a ... certain age will have any idea what that was...!)

@StezStixFix

Ай бұрын

😂 bring back mr blobby!

@shneeblee180

Ай бұрын

Please don't 😂

@matthewlofthouse4028

Ай бұрын

No for the love of God don't use too give me nightmares 😂

@alienfish8521

Ай бұрын

Oh yeah we all know.

@MaxStax1

Ай бұрын

I'm from the U.S but i learned about Mr. Blobby from an episode of Expedition Theme Park on KZread.

I subscribed because you showed your fail. Great job being real.

I swear dude be dropping some dope ass sound you need to make a album

Silly idea but something worth trying? Maybe the screen is coming on but may not do anything unless you press a button on the remote? Will it get anything (a signal?) from the remote? I'd assume the 'white' object is a receiver for this. If that isn't working maybe it's causing the rest of the board to fail? I'm sure it isn't but something is awry somewhere there, so what else could it be? (Sillier idea, try different batteries, alkaline instead of whatever else?). Further idea - also, perhaps silly, try to see if the screen is properly connected, it could have a loose part on the ribbon cable?

I agree you should’ve heated the blob ship up. I see if you can reconnect the saddle joints.

That's a great looking counter! Chinese blobby seems to be the problem. 👌👍

I wonder if it's StezStix Rapping. Cause that would be cool.😎👍💯 Too bad it's Extinct. Life couldn't find a way with this one. I wanted to see it work as well. 😩

This might just be me but I think when pressed the board seemed to bend along a distinct line under the blob chip, is it the board itself?

@waynejohnson1500

Ай бұрын

Thought the same. Maybe broken lines?

It doesn't matter at this point but when you have buttons, you can test the voltage drop across a button, so you can analyze if when you press it the voltage goes out. Usually the buttons are pulled up by a resistor or internally of a MCU.

Although the screen connections looked ok putting the pressure on the blob chip could be affecting the screens connection as they are underneath on other side of the pcb. Worth a try?

Good video!

Thats a delightful item!

Great content as always, I have a SNES that I’ve just brought with a few games, I don’t think it’s working 100% the games don’t look very sharp and some of the colours look a bit dull, so you take things in to repair and return?

4:55 That is the contact switch for the "demo mode". When you remove the plastic tab and the contact closes the device operates normally.

Guess in this Jurassic Park it wasn’t Meteors that wiped out the dinosaurs it was instead the deadly Black Blop.

@GODCONVOYPRIME

Ай бұрын

You know Dr. Meddows suggested the same thing in the 1988 version of the BLOB. Small world isn't it?

They made a South Park version of this. I saw it in the toy department at Walmart next to the Legos one day. Let that sink in.

That was a killer cover of Duran Duran!

Good E for Effort

The board did flex a lot and the blob is quite firm so I don't know you'd actually move anything under the blob but certainly the board flex could be affecting any poor solder joints on other components. Check none of the buttons are stuck on in case that is and stops it booting?

Love the tune take on pm dawn

Still just here for the raps and the songs! Awesome content :D

I have one of these for back to the future.

Nice

When he said Dave, he meant me

I have four of these tiny TVs mine are Original batman, back to the future, south park and friends. The remote died on the south park one but the TV still works. I'm curious if you take out that 8 pin rectangular chip which holds the videos that are shown and put it into another one of these TVs. I'm also curious if it's possible to extract the video files and play them back in VLC on a PC

View to a Kill got me I'm a fan now 😂

Did pressing the reset button also wipe the memory, so there are no files for the screen to display?

Bond. Wires Bond. Nice Duran Duran-like outro. :)

You’re the best Dave !!!!😂😂😂

I wonder if you're also pushing down on the screen's ribbon cable and fixing an intermittant connection there.

How did you know what capacitor value to use when the original had no markings?

Cotton bud with some acetone to see if the blob is soluble in acetone. If so, you might be able to get past the potting material.

@j.f.christ8421

Ай бұрын

It's resin. Your main choices are brute force or nitric acid.

Have you tried using the remote control? As with some 'real' TVs 'on' means standby. You need to use the remote to turn it on...

Could you heat up the blob chip and hold it down with your plastic tool as you were doing when the screen came on? Hold it till it cools so it will stay in place. Just a wild thought. Sort of melt it in place but not too much to damage it

@309electronics5

Ай бұрын

Likely wont do anything. A COB (chip on board) aka blob is a raw semiconductor dice (no package) glued to the board and has gold wires welded from it to the board and it does not use any solder. Then its covered by epoxy to protect it against light and reverse engineering

Nice.

Someone at the company told me that these were s special deal with WalMart that didn't sell well, so they started liquidating them on the cheap.

It's almost never the blob chip that fails. The most likely culprit is the screen.

As well as heating the chip, you could try some freezer spray on the blob chip. It won't fix it but proves the point that the fault is in the chip. Freezer spray is great for fiinding dodgy components. Use a little at a time otherwise you won't isolate the fault.

Lol The sender obviously has a favorite co-host 😂😂😂😂

Could you be shirt-circuiting the reset button when pressing the blob chip? It looks like the board is bending quite a bit?

the power for the backlight is aparently getting to the screen but the video signal isnt. Could it be the connection between the screen and the board that is faulty/ intemittent. You really need an oscilloscope fpr jobs like these. Then you could have seen if there was activity on the significant pins of the memory chip for example.

Ey yup! Didnt know you were a fellow boltonian!

Thats the tv thing from willow the wisp

@ericpode6095

Ай бұрын

Evil Edna! 📺😅

Can you reflow through blob chip?

That MK-something chip might be a Flash Memory, so it's very possible that chip might be corrupt, thus failing to boot. It may need a complete reflash either for Firmware or BIOS (if applicable) so try to get another one and change that integrated. I don't think the blob-chip might be faulty, because, it's getting energy throughout the entire board, and most importantly, the screen boots but can't. Either way, blob-chips are very difficult to replace as most are microchips and not the usual integrated size you'd find regularly.

What have you got to lose ? Not working anyway what’s the worse it still doesn’t work?

could it also be a bad ribbon and you are pressing through from the blob chip

Hi dave and steve

They should sell it with the complete movie it would make cool collectibles

Well I guess that's what if you get two free when you buy one, if yiu want them to work you're asking too much 😂😂 great vid like always brother!

Are the switches working ?

Oh man, only now realised you’re so near by! Fancy fixing a commodore PET? :)

how about adding a ton of flux then reflowing said blob chip? you cand exactly make it any worse right?

Send it to Vince,he loves a challenge. He repaired tiny bond wires inside a watch!

@j.f.christ8421

Ай бұрын

That's child's play compared to the wires under that epoxy. And solder doesn't work, you need a micro-welder.

Use the screen and case for a RP Pico and make your own tiny TV.

hey mate, I am in west australia, i have a psp1000 that has a problem with the back light for the screen, ive replaced the screen, and tried a small yt fix but got nowhere, would you be interested in looking at it?

What was the other chip on there please ?....cheers.

You should try putting it together completely. That may have been the entire issue.

I would absolutely remove the blob and see what else is under it. Could be a standard processor that has a few unsoldered leads. I mean it is broken presently. What else could you possibly do to it...

@309electronics5

Ай бұрын

The blob is the cheapest way of producing a chip. A raw semiconductor dice which has no package (and is likely a APPLICATION SPECIFIC IC OR ASIC) and its glued to the board and has gold wires welded from the tiny mm size pads on the dice to the board. Covered by epoxy to protect it from light and rev engineering. Because you dont need metal pins and a package it saves a few cents

What's the music a 8:17 ? It was short but I like it..

Hello Mr fix and dave I have a cctv camera it was working fine then just stopped it is wifi and blue tooth and cost £60 from aliexpress it works with the smartlife or tuya app but I couldn't get it to work Would you like it for your channel maybe have a try at fixing it Or just have it for parts

9:22 SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME

Go for it Steve, it would be interesting to see what happens …. and you are not going to make it worse. Presumably the blob potting compound is immune to IPA and acetone?

@309electronics5

Ай бұрын

Its epoxy or hard plastic. Although it has fragile gold bond wires which might easily break

I think it's a faulty screen or screen connection and when you push down on the blob chip, you're jostling the screen pieces into place.

What donyou charge steave ??. Got some small bits if your interested, 1 is unusual 😮!!??

you could try heating the blob?

Did they forget to solder in an eprom or something? There's a vacant spot for a chip

Can you dissolve the blob goo? Seen it on bootleg video game carts. It's kinda annoying because if anything happens to the board you have no idea what's under.

@309electronics5

Ай бұрын

Under it is a raw semiconductor (Asic) dice that i glued to the board and bonded using gold wire which is welded from the chip to the board. Then covered by epoxy to protect it against light and rev ngineering

@j.f.christ8421

Ай бұрын

That black epoxy is really tough. Your main choices are brute force and nitric acid, neither of which is going to end well.

I have one of these but it’s clips from Star Trek.

S1 is a Switch the S stands for "S"witch. Forrest Mims' books has all that elementary info....

at least he tried

Unlucky Steve can’t win them all mate 😊

I tried taking mine apart it was the friends variant and I was bummed that I couldn't add my own movies.

Why is a "blob chip" impossible? Is it worth scraping back the blob and checking continuity, or does the voltage check round the board rule out continuity issues?

@j.f.christ8421

Ай бұрын

Because the epoxy is impossible to remove without destroying what's underneath, and what's underneath is a bare chip with very very fine wires welded from the chip to the PCB. But yes, you can chip bits off to look for broken traces etc. But if you get anywhere near the chip or the wires it's all over.

@JamesStocks

Ай бұрын

@@j.f.christ8421 ah right. Thanks for the explanation!

@309electronics5

Ай бұрын

​@@JamesStocksits the cheapest way of producing a chip. A raw semiconductor dice is glued to the pcb and has gold wires welded from it to the board and then covered by epoxy to protect it from light and rev engineering... Without the packaging process this saves the manufacturer a few cents