$0 to $10,000 Repaired in Less Than A Year? - Month 5

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Can you repair enough retro video game stuff as a side gig to make some extra money and is it worth it? Lets find out and fix some stuff while documenting the process over the next year to see if it makes sense in 2024, Month 5!
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• $0 to $10,000 Repaired...
Amazing info for OG Xbox console repairs
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Panasonic capacitor part numbers for OG Xbox repairs
EEU-FM0J152 - 1500uF 6.3V
EEU-FM1A332 - 3300uF 10V
JUWT1105MCD - Clock Cap
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#GameRepairs #howto #repair
00:00 Early sales & many new purchases
07:40 What does it take to fix an OG Xbox?
25:39 Smaller projects
26:29 The trials & tribulations of Sega Game Gears
31:06 Monthly wrap up
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@retroweekender 20 дней назад

Man, I look forward to these every month. And I'm almost in the same boat with the amount of things sitting around that i need to fix. Keep it up this is great.

@gamejaeger 20 дней назад

Thank you! I'm not going to lie, it has been a push to get some of these items fixed but knowing people look forward to seeing the results has been one of my big motivators lately. Thanks for watching! There will be more to come!

@consoles-R-us 20 дней назад

Awesome series. I do a lot of Xbox repairs and yes the board is a pita. I finally broke down and bought a hako desoldering gun. It's an absolute game changer.

@gamejaeger 20 дней назад

Good to know it's not just me having issues lol. Thanks for the tip though, I may look into some additional tools...

@techboogaloo 14 дней назад

Love this series, congrats on the 1k subs! Your channel has been growing really fast, you will be at 5k in no time. Keep it up!

@gamejaeger 14 дней назад

Thank you! I hope so!

@digipimp75 20 дней назад

I'm loving this series. Keep up the great content!

@gamejaeger 20 дней назад

Thanks, will do!

@Pickle136 20 дней назад

ive done a few motherboard recaps and based on what ive seen others do ive settled on this. 1. i wiggle them out like you are. I am using more of a chisel tip so that will transfer hear better than the pointy cone tip. 2. I was only using a zd-915 solder gun and after i had the same problem you have on ground plane. I bought a hot air station (X-Tronic 6020-PRO-X). Blowing the air and then sucking out with the gun works great. But thats your problem is that ground plane sinks all of the heat from your solder station and the solder isnt molten. If you have a regular heat gun that could work too to get the area warmer. For the corrosion scraping ive seen other use a diamond etching pen with good results. Im planning to try one on a 286 board with corroding traces. I also bought a mag wire kit so also good to see you had good results with that.

@gamejaeger 20 дней назад

Nice! Thanks for the info! I'll have to look and see if I have a chisel tip for my iron stashed somewhere and test that out too.

@woovs101 16 дней назад

To remove the solder from the holes i stand the board up, heat bottom side with iron, and suck from top side with sucker...i use chisel tip also for that

@gamejaeger 16 дней назад

Thanks for the tip!

@luke9511 20 дней назад

the bad caps on the disc drive seem just like the same issue with the gamecube drives as well, nice find i will have to try this out some time

@gamejaeger 20 дней назад

I was shocked the hot air worked to test it though, but it makes perfect sense...

@QsTechService1 20 дней назад

Removing the solder from the capacitor holes cut A piece of wick hold with a needle nose And hot air To wake up the solder holes Also use hot air with my desoldering gun hot air helps a lot

@gamejaeger 20 дней назад

Thanks for the info! I don't have a hot air station but I've been thinking about getting one for some time and never knew if it was more of a preference thing with use or more of another tool to use in certain situations like this. I've never ran into a situation until now where I've really wondered about using it though.

@QsTechService1 20 дней назад

@@gamejaeger yeah you can check out a station I reviewed that gets less than like $300 called Web-Tools hot air station 🚉 I was impressed with it. I did a review video check it out.

@gamejaeger 19 дней назад

Will do!

@cr_tech2000 17 дней назад

Great series! Love the content. You have been doing console repairs for long?

@gamejaeger 17 дней назад

Thanks, great to hear! I've been tinkering with stuff for years. I suppose I could say I've been fixing stuff for over 10+ years but it was mostly tinkering early on. In the last 5ish years I've been more interested in the how's and why of fixes and more serious about refurbishing items though.

@turji 20 дней назад

Nice u got some glassfiber pens👍🏼 Get yourself a desolder gun, much better than the manual ones. And maybe use kester 40/60 rosin core leaded solder.

@gamejaeger 20 дней назад

I'm still not sold on the fiberglass pens but I don't feel I've given them a fair shake yet either. I'm going to keep using them for a while and really see. The one thing I noticed is they get very dirty after a while too. Do you cut the tip after a while? Or just wipe it on something else to remove the dirt/ debris? Like I said, haven't used them much yet but I'm sure I'll figure it out.

@joetrrs 20 дней назад

Definitely need a chisel tip to transfer more heat faster than the pointed cone tip can. I've done dozens of og xbox repairs and the chisel tip and wiggle method work wonders. Also, ive made a few posts on reddit about the resistor arrays on the dvd drives going out of spec. Had a few that wouldnt read discs or some that would read games as audio CDs, after bodging my own resistors in series from point to pin on the bottom it fixed a few of them.

@gamejaeger 19 дней назад

Interesting, did you try it on multiple drives (as in different manufacturers)? And where the results the same each time? I bet that was no easy task either...

@Will_ONeill 19 дней назад

I have similar struggles with removing the main board capacitors, the wiggle method and switching to a chisel tip are what I do now as I haven't found a better way. I'm waiting on Thomson recap kits myself I have 2 that are in need, this will be my first attempt at recapping DVD drives hope this is going to work as it will be a game changer.

@gamejaeger 19 дней назад

Thank you, I've seen multiple recommendation for the chisel tip and I'll for sure have to try it out. If you have any experience recapping stuff, the kits I just picked up for the Thomson were pretty easy to install. It was just a bit fiddly taking everything apart. I give an update in the next video too.

@Will_ONeill 19 дней назад

@gamejaeger I just bought the kits from Console5 for the Thomson drive because I couldn't be bothered to look for them separately. Should be here this week as I placed my order Thursday.

@gamejaeger 19 дней назад

Those are the ones I used too. All I can say is they installed easily, I'll show the results next month though.

@Will_ONeill 19 дней назад

@@gamejaeger Very Cool

@gamejaeger 18 дней назад

Thanks!

@iBNKSY 19 дней назад

I've just done some Xbox 360 xenon motherboards for capacitor replacements and noticed it was pretty hard for the legs and pads to take the new leaded solder, I guess the legs and capacitors themselves take in so much heat it just stops it joining

@gamejaeger 19 дней назад

Very good to know I'm not the only one with these issues.

@Yipper64 20 дней назад

Random question but how do you find these things at a good price? I want to fix things as well, mostly for my own collection not necessarily to resell, but I often find things that are either, only cosmetically damaged which, you know *ok, fine,* irreparable, or straight up fake. How do you find these listings with things that are broken but repairable? I know "used for parts" is usually how but it seems really rare I actually find something like that. Maybe im just seeing "not working" at a very very slight discount ($5-10 off usually) as not worth it?

@gamejaeger 20 дней назад

It really just depends on the item honestly. If you are looking for Pokemon GBC carts that are broken, good luck. You'll be paying market price or maybe even higher for them all day long. Now Sega Game Gears? They aren't as popular so you have some negotiation power on price, sometimes... It turns into a numbers game after a while though too. If you look at 1000 listings a day, everyday, you'll find some hidden gems eventually. But you're right, a vast majority of stuff listed online is trying to be sold at market pricing which really isn't worth it IMO. It is rare to find an abundance of items so it really comes down to how much time do you want to spend looking.

@Yipper64 20 дней назад

@@gamejaeger interesting. Thank you for letting me know!

@gamejaeger 19 дней назад

No problem, sorry for being slightly vague. It just all depends on where you plan on getting items from and of course demand is a huge part of it most of the time.

@ileox4170 20 дней назад

Edit to your Soldering issues. Your tip is veeeery small. Xbox Mainboards need a lot if thermal transfer for the throughhole stuff. I use a huge tipp to remove the caps, works well 80-90% of the time (:

@gamejaeger 19 дней назад

Awesome, I will try that because it's driving me nuts currently lol

@alataweel8954 20 дней назад

Console5 sells the belts for the Thomson drive

@gamejaeger 20 дней назад

I saw that after I bought the big pack and they seem like one of the only places online to sell them too.

@alataweel8954 20 дней назад

@@gamejaeger yes they are. Thomson are the most failure prone drives of the og Xbox so usually makes no sense to refurbish them on my experience. I am interested in seeing if the recap fix works. While some have reported it to work it usually doesn’t .

@gamejaeger 19 дней назад

I already did 3 of them but sorry you'll have to wait until next month for the results... :) But on another note, if you don't refurbish them, do you swap in other drives at that point? Or do you have a stockpile of Samsung drives that no one knows about? lol

@alataweel8954 19 дней назад

@@gamejaegerunlike later generation Xboxs parts don’t exist to repair them so I mod them so that there’s no longer a need for them. Phillips have been the most reliable in my personal experience not Samsungs. Many times it’s the resistors as well that go bad and it’s just worth the trouble

@gamejaeger 19 дней назад

Gotcha, that makes sense. I always forget there's a huge mod scene for the OG Xbox. I haven't looked into it yet myself but that may be something I do with a few of the leftover consoles I have if I can't get the drives running. We shall see...

@cluckinbelI 19 дней назад

You know, I do have to ask: You seem to repair a lot of original Xboxes, How often do you encounter an original xbox with a dead disk drive laser? Almost every Original Xbox I've seen appears to have a dead laser ☹

@gamejaeger 19 дней назад

Its funny you ask, I saw so many posts online talking about Pot adjustments and how their laser is dying and I haven't seen one yet. I was seriously considering pre-purchasing drive lasers because of the prevalence of those posts and I assumed I would have a boatload of them myself. I haven't seen a single one yet. I still have several Xbox units to go through so I'm bound to find at least one I would imagine but nothing yet oddly enough.

@cluckinbelI 17 дней назад

⁠@@gamejaeger Someones really gotta get to selling 3rd party disk laser replacements for the OG Xbox. PS1/2, Gamecube, and Dreamcast all have 3rd party replacement lasers and the xbox doesn’t. It’s unfortunate.

@gamejaeger 17 дней назад

I've seen a few versions available online but not for all manufacturers. I honestly haven't done a deep dive with it either so maybe they all do exist somewhere and I'm just not seeing them yet.

@ileox4170 20 дней назад

Xbox Thomson Drives need 55m Bands (: I Order mine from Aliexpress, but they are also not that cheap :D

@ileox4170 20 дней назад

sure, you tell anyway xD

@gamejaeger 19 дней назад

I do lol

@beefviper 20 дней назад

You don't need the baking soda. Baking soda is a base and will consume all the acetic acid in the vinegar. Creating water, sodium acetate (a salt) and carbon dioxide, which is not good, since the salt won't really do anything. You want the acetic acid to react with the iron oxide, which is a much slower process.

@gamejaeger 20 дней назад

So just use plain vinegar instead?

@beefviper 20 дней назад

@@gamejaeger Yes.

@gamejaeger 20 дней назад

Gotcha, how long does that normally take to work for you? With light corrosion vs heavy?

@beefviper 20 дней назад

@@gamejaeger It's a pretty slow process. Could be several minutes to hours.

@gamejaeger 19 дней назад

Thanks for the info! I will have to try it out.

@RBKing80 16 дней назад

Did you replace the thermal paste ?

@gamejaeger 15 дней назад

On the Xbox units? No, I did not. I did do some research on it though and what I found out is unless the unit was having issues like overheating or you're trying to push performance boundaries like adding additional RAM, overclocking, stuff like that, it doesn't seem necessary. People do seem pretty opinionated about it though. And I'm sure it's still not a bad upgrade to do if you want to make sure you're console will last for years to come but, everything I read came to the conclusion that it wasn't super necessary.