Let's Repair - Ebay Junk - Sony PS4 Controller - Hidden Hairs 

Yay I love it when I get an E mail that is telling me that you uploaded a new Video :3

so basically there was nothing wrong with it? ok............. that's a good deal i guess.

What a shame...again nothing to repair really. Still fun to watch. Those controllers are expensive. 13 quid is a very good deal.

Hairs around the rumble bits...... yeah, let's NOT think too much about that one lol :D

I always somehow enjoy working on broken stuff and getting it working even if the savings is minimal. Just something about saving hardware from the trash...

Life is like a faulty controller off ebay, you never know what you're gonna get

"Let's buy - working eBay merchandise" - Every RetroGameTech video

I feel like you clean a lot of stuff and put it back together and it works again :P

I always love your videos! Excellent quality. 10/10.

I found your channel about a 2 months ago. Since then I have been buying retro consoles on ebay and cleaning and fixing them up and paying more attention to the old stuff I already own. Thank you!

Now imagining the seller, "Battery on this controller has run out of charge..... must be faulty."

Man I waited a long time for you make another video and got excited when I send you did man. You're like the only person that makes these type of videos

Replace the ps4 joysticks with xbox one joysticks, They fit perfectly and can be bought for less then $5 online. I replaced mine and they are more comfortable and are seem to be made of a thicker sturdier rubber.

Good Job! I Like to see your videos cause you show to me and every people that are watching your videos that almost everything can be repaired. I think that you could put 1 ad or 2 on your videos cause you definitly deserve it. Keep up the excelent work!

Good deal. Awaiting your next video! I hope its a repair video, i really like watching you talk about stuff and fix it.

It's like a special surprise when I see one of your videos pop up in my feed. Love your stuff man!

You're goddamn right it's time for another faulty eBay video!

Even when there's nothing wrong, It's great to be able to see the inside of this stuff without fear of ruining your own tech

good to see a new video from you, hope to see more in the future.

So what was supposed to be wrong with this thing?

Finally you upload bro. I love this shit. You should do more

I'm willing to bet money that whoever put that up for sale just had no idea it needed to be charged

So glad he's alive :)

Is that an Academy award/Oscar?

Bewbzzz

I love your ebay repairs. Subbed because of this.

Glad to see you're making videos again

This brings me back :D forgot how much i loved these videos

Like an hour ago I went on your channel and after I watch a few Adam LZ videos I saw you uploaded. These videos are great I love them

im glad i checking my subscriptions. this is my favorite channel.

love knowing the controller is do easy disassembled. might try go get myself a cheap 2ND controller now after that 😁

I always look forward to your videos. I can't believe I missed this upload! Thanks for making great content. :)

I'm the only person who plays my PS4 99% of the time, but I still bought two controllers. The batteries don't last that long, so I have one changing while I play with the other. Once that one goes dead I swap back.

I love seeing you back to uploading

Why do I like these videos so much?

It's really a shame you don't upload more regularly, i enjoy watching your videos and when i see you've uploaded in my sub box i get excited to see what your going to be repairing next. bit of a shame their was nothing really wrong with the controller in this video and now we'll be waiting a month for the next one :(

Loving these movies tbh. I've done something like this a while ago as well. But in my case there was a chewed off thumbstick and a broken charging port. But this all got solved and replaced very quickly.

More vids like this please :) I love watching you refurbish stuff.

Love watching these.

Glad to see you uploading a new video :D Long time subscriber of yours

Good to see you again!

Your new video has made my day!

Good video, and I'm Scottish too. This repair business is a hobby I've been getting into recently as well.

You can easily replace those damaged analog sticks. Nice video!

Thanks god, a new episode

Love watching your videos!

I'd recommend replacing the battery anyway. they're only 1000mAh but I put 2000mAh batteries in both of mine. Very handy.

I don't use dettol wipes, instead I immerse all plastic and non-electrical components in hot soapy water. And then I scrub it. I clean the electronics with isopropyl alcohol.

Can you please do a thumbstick replacement video?

Love your videos, It had been a while since you last uploaded, and I was starting to get worried that you had quit. I know how hard it must be to make a lot of content where you fix stuff.

Excellent repair video as always! Keep up the great work!

One thing to test (there may be a comment on this already) is how tense the shoulder buttons are. What I mean is, if you hold the right shoulder button in a racing game for instance, worn pads will not fully press the pressure sensitive button to completion and you won't fully accelerate. I know it sounds like horse crap but it's genuinely true, the spring or something along those lines just gives up due to wear and tear.

Nice to see another vid on your channel!!! I hope this is the start of a pattern ;)

just yelled YAY and opned your video

So excited when I see that notification 😆😆😆😆

I've seen more dirt in some old grubby dreamcast controllers, sometimes they are absolutely disgusting! 😂

Hero Name: 'Bewbz'. Excellent work.

As always you've dropped on! Great stuff and nice tip with the anti bacterial wipes Martin.. Those hairs on the rumble motors... Yuck 😦

When I saw that hair in the controller I'm glad I pay full price for stuff like this. I would have puked all over if I disassembled an input device and found a hair ball like that.

I actually buy and sell controller's on eBay. My most recent controller is my best. It turned on, the usb was good, no stick drift. All that was wrong was that the trigger buttons needed a clean

Amazing video! You need to make more.

Great show, a must watch in my rotation. Peace brother.

Great to see a new repair, Any chance of a new pick-up video soon?

Retrogametech should do a tour of his game collection. It must be massive and full of some really cool/rare stuff.

How does hair get in the rumble motors? Da fuk.

keep up the great videos!

I love very much your channel, perhaps because also my hobby is to go hunt consoles joblots on ebay to collect and resell what i dont need... Despite in Italy it is not so easy to find good deals :) However it is the only way that allows me to have a collection, which otherwise would be too expensive for me. Go on like this, I want more videos! Im sorry for my english, but I had to use a little bit google translate and as you know is not the best accuracy XD

OMG OMG OMG A NEW RETROGAMETECH VIDEO ITS BEEN SO LONG OH CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN

You should buy replacement sticks, mostly because they come with buttons you can replace it with to pimp it out.

I got one for £15 it just had 1 trigger button that needed changing works fine now .

Nice bargain mate. I fitted 3rd party covers on my ps4 thumbsticks as soon as I got my controllers as I had read about the poor quality of the rubber.

Yeah, it is nice you got to show us you found something that worked, but I like to see these videos for the repairs. Replacing the thumb sticks would have been neat to have been in the video. We have seen you clean a bunch of things from ebay. This is like the clean old electronics channel now.

I just wanted to let you know that even though the controller appears fully functional it still may have a defective analog stick. My controller was that way were it was fine in the menu and in certain games but stuff like Warframe I had trouble moving around. It's worth testing to see if it's truly fully functioning.

keep the videos coming dude

the sticks are roughly under 1 USD to replace. I did it for my controller and its a quick replacement.

Nice! Good to see another RGT video! You seem to get a fair amount of stuff that is supposed to be faulty but ends up working. What portion of stuff you find is working vs repairable vs unrepairable?

I just realized that it looks like you have the exact same laptop that I do.

Wow I wish I could do that! My controlled for PS3 is all messed up! It has a mind of it's own

Cracking buy. Think I might risk it myself.

thanks to you i now repair old gc controllers and get them to Almost mint condition :B

love your videos!

Hi, please could you do a short video on your basic toolkit for repairs? (Thinking about soldering iron and solder type for small board repairs - and how you go about it, how to use a multimeter for basic stuff like continuity, screwdriver sets for small electronics etc) - I have some tools but seem to be bad at this repair stuff ! :) cheers

Did you even find how it was faulty? The sprint button probably didn't work. In games where you have to hold it constantly to sprint, it would occasionally stop or slow down your movement

Nice to see a vid!!! :)

YAY your back

Holy crap that's a steal, in Canada a new one goes for 74 dollars before tax.....

if your spare parts bin looked anything like mine you would have already had spare thumb sticks. my dad and i broke a lot of ps2 and xbox controllers back in the day between the two of us, i kept all the parts that could potentially go into another controller

I have the same tablet. You should put XB1 thumb sticks on that thing that way it'll be an upgrade.

keep up the good work mate :)

Dettol looks like a English version of a German thingy called Sagrotan

Instead of new thumbsticks buy the covers that you can just slip over them, have more grip too.

nice find!

Hey, i got a sega genesis that doesn't get power or the light just doesn't light up. I don't have games or a controller to test it with. I know some older systems won't power on without a game in, but i don't remember the genesis being one of those. I hate to throw it out, i would rather see it fixed and used. If you're interested, or anyone else, let me know. Free of course, just have to work out the shipping if it comes to that.

I purchase a quadcopter for £2 such a bargain

I usually take everything apart when I buy second hand, even working controllers, sometimes consoles, they can be a lot worse than this.

If you had it opened up already anyways, why didn't you just replace the analog sticks? It's two or three more screws to take out the mainboard, that's it.

sometimes it's crazy what people call faulty.

You should get Xbox One thumbsticks instead! They go for the same price on ebay and fit perfectly on the DS4. They are far superior in every way as far as thumbsticks go. Better precision, better feel, they last longer and look nicer. DS4 with Xbox One thumbsticks = perfect controller.

Buying second hand controllers doesn't bother me. Hell by the time they get to me they have probably been through several hands... I like cleaning them and taking the chance they work. Of course after many years of doing this I can pretty much judge if anything is going to work. I won't buy anything excessively beat up. I might buy a frayed cable and heat shrink it or replace from a bad controller. Or a controller just for the analog sticks occasionally if it is cheap enough. BUT I have never seen hair inside a controller like that. I am not sure how they would even get in there.....

well done! props top you mate