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"

Ok, That last one shows that you're a real class act! Hope ya enjoyed the fix Damian! Glad to have you with us!

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.

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)

@rayhowe4354

8 ай бұрын

What is vire-

@oliverer3

6 ай бұрын

@@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.

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 ...

@S.A.V.A.G.E._L.I.F.E.

6 ай бұрын

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.

@I_Don_t_want_a_handle

6 ай бұрын

@@S.A.V.A.G.E._L.I.F.E. Ah! A Puritan speaks.

@TattooDallas

5 ай бұрын

​@@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 KZread 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.

@NicksStuff

3 ай бұрын

Don't mix them, though: - IPA on the board; - ethanol in your mouth.

@NicksStuff

3 ай бұрын

@@S.A.V.A.G.E._L.I.F.E. Alsohalism is an absolute tragedy we should never laugh about.

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!

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.

@pelculator

6 ай бұрын

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!

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. ^^

Hi Vince. The german word "Dachshund" translates literally to "Badgerdog" and is pronounced in german something like "Duckshoond". Greetings from germany.

@Atantuo

8 ай бұрын

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."

@gregwilliams9122

8 ай бұрын

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.

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.

@NatureOkie

8 ай бұрын

I saved his Bang & Olufsen fixes as a Mix Video😊

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.

@0ButterBall

8 ай бұрын

Def worth putting up on a wall

@johnrazor8720

8 ай бұрын

⁠I’d buy the tee shirt! 😂

@Lostinspace1983

8 ай бұрын

Same, I just laughed hard whilst my partner went; ‘what’s with this whole isopropyl alcohol thing?!’ 😅

Hi Vince I love watching your KZread 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

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

@FiveStringCommando

8 ай бұрын

My thoughts exactly. New board video?

The sim card was my favourite, memories mean more than material things. Keep up the good work Vincent 🤗.

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.

@ovalwingnut

8 ай бұрын

Vince gives me hope where my clergy has failed :O》

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

A new my mate Vince video!! Yesss! My day is set😊

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!

@john_thorpe

8 ай бұрын

If it even works electronically instead of like the old 3.5" floppy or VHS tapes where a pin falls into the opening.

@kjur18

8 ай бұрын

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.

Well done on the headphones (I sent them). Knew you’d fix them!

@73kimbern

8 ай бұрын

…and thanks for putting them in a video. 👍

@Mymatevince

8 ай бұрын

Cheers for sending them in!!! 👍👍👍👍

i love going on youtube after a long day and seeing a new my mate vince video :)

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 😀👍

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.

@Mymatevince

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Dash, that's really useful to know 👍👍👍

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.

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 😊

Hi Vince and thank you for the fresh batch of entertainment.

@Mymatevince

8 ай бұрын

Cheers Marcel 👍

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.

@Stefan_Payne

8 ай бұрын

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.

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.

@chrisprobert6

8 ай бұрын

We haven't been able to get that stuff, since they had to remove the lead.😅

@oliverer3

6 ай бұрын

@@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.

@chrisprobert6

6 ай бұрын

@@oliverer3 acetone destroys all plastics in my experience

@oliverer3

6 ай бұрын

@@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.

@snafu2350

5 ай бұрын

@@oliverer3 Lighter fuel (esp the expensive non-black-smoky stuff like Zippo branded), or is that not high enough rated?

YES! more random junk! Best videos, honest faults as you say.

@DainSmart-vm7pc

8 ай бұрын

Maybe it is junk to you for some people it's memories 😊

Please use that IPA photo in all other future videos. Love it!

Nice video. I think the 9th pin is for the write lock. Normal SD Card has a lock, micoSD has not...

@roberttco1

8 ай бұрын

And for microSD, the signal tells the host that the card is not locked

@firstsurname9893

8 ай бұрын

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.

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.

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...

That Daniel O'Donnell will be talked about more than the Yellow Mat...lol - Great video again Vince!

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.

@Mymatevince

8 ай бұрын

Thank you Andy Mouse 👌

❤ 1 hour video. Viewers items make it extra exciting. I dig the red mat, too. It makes everything pop.

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!

A really nice variety of fixes. Have I mentioned that I like the red Matt? But the yellow Matt is by far my favourite.

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.

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 😂😂

I so much look forward to this thank you very much indeed

Great Video again !!!

Going to need that photo of Vince and the isopropyl alcohol on a my mate Vince mug.

I like that Weller work mat!

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.

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.

@allenrussell6135

7 ай бұрын

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

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.

1st fix great one Vince! .... I thought you wasn't gonna fix that one 😂

Thank you for reparing this last item - micro to SD adapter. Fate in humanity slightly restored.

happy 500th episode of trying to fix it guys! time to bring out the expensive tea bags!

Hi vince I recommend (glitter 801B or 801D) spot welder, it's amazing I have both 😊

Love it 🧡

Dachshund is German. Dachs = Badger, Hund = dog. A dog bred to hunt badgers

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 😁

@BarryHolsinger

8 ай бұрын

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.

@jamieward2586

8 ай бұрын

Those capacitors were really into their limbo game, FR. A+ flex.

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.

I remember someone at school having the game gear and a TV adaptor, thought it was the coolest thing ever.

Hu Vince, love your videos, I've been a subscriber for a while now and I've learnt a lot from watching you, where can I find your PO box address? Thanks Keep it up 😊

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!

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!

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.

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

I got that Sony system. Sounds really good to me.

That IPA photo had me laughing

34:43 been waiting for this

The game gear is a perfect candidate for a new replacement motherboard from SYF. Just need to harvest the ASIC, RAM, and cartridge connector.

@JrManPT

8 ай бұрын

Would love to see Vince try that out!

hi nice video, i have a question from this moment 47:17 if i understood correctly... the mic ground and the light ground are full short so that means you can feed both with the same cable and replace the other cable with the broken negative mic cable.. right?

Not sure what that tiny laptop thing is but it looks interesting.

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.

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 can watch the 3 dogs all day

Interesting the hifi ejecting cd’s.I have an original XBox that does the same,opens and closes at random.

What brand is the mini laptop ? thanks Vince.

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.

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.

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. 😂

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).

Hi Vince, where did you get the pc/Tablet at 51:27 ? What is it?

PLEASE VINCE, BRING BACK THE BLUE MAT. THANKING YOU IN ADVANCE. 😁

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.

@Mymatevince

8 ай бұрын

You inspired that photo Emma 😂 👍

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

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.

that kind of connector is very picky about connecting and just tightening it down doesnt work, i had to fiddle with the display cable for something for awhile before it would reconnect and that device didnt actually have anything wrong with it, i had only taken it apart to replace the thermal paste

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.

@michaeltempsch5282

8 ай бұрын

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

Hey Vince, with the CD player, would you suspect that maybe regular use eventually forces that part to dislodge do to poor design in that area? If so, will this maybe repeat with use and is there anything you might do to reinforce while you're in there?

What is the spot welder you use?

What is that model / make little laptop thing you use?

It's probably been checked but could the projector issue be as simple as a prematurely burned out / damaged lamp?

You can discharge caps by shorting the live and return on the mains plug. (Obviously not plugged in 😉)

Great Doggos !!!!

where did you get the pad? tools?

0:30 Can we call the stereo an absolute unit? 🤣🤣🤣

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.

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.

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.

I had my first ever 18650 flare up last week, expensive ones too very high drain things... was cycling the cells for another set an Efest pair and I thought this cell seems warm just as I was going to pull it out, as it came out it started fizzing fire and burned top of my thumb pretty badly. Only had them a few months and always treat them with respect not draining them to the max or overcharging having a pretty expensive 4 slot charger too. Sent the pair back to the company with quite a shirty letter attached, sent in a proper battery box and bag and I won't buy the brand again :(

Vince as Pee-Wee Herman would say if you like IPA so much then why don't you marry it.

It just needs a good clean all those contact points were visibly corroded , board looked good.

Isopropyl alcohol and Daniel o donnall my life is complete 😂