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How To Cast Silicone Bike Bits
It’s a sad fact of owning older machinery, that no matter how much care is lavished upon your pride and joy, the inexorable march of time takes its toll upon some of the parts. [Jason Scatena] knows...
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[DiyOtaku] Gives Old Devices A New Life
Sometimes we get sent a tip that isn’t just a single article or video, but an entire blog or YouTube channel. Today’s channel, [Diy Otaku], is absolutely worth a watch if you want someone see giving a...
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The Impossible Repair: Ribbon Cables
It’s a problem that faces many a piece of older equipment that ribbon cables of the type used on membrane keyboards start to fail as they become older. These cables are extremely difficult to repair as...
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Broken Lens Provides Deep Dive Into Camera Repair
While most of us are probably willing to pick up the tools and void the warranty on just about anything, often just to see what’s inside, many of us draw the line at camera gear. The tiny screws, the...
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Ribbon Cable Repair Saves Touch ID
Some might consider a broken ribbon cable to be unsalvagable. They’re delicate and fragile as can be, and sometimes just fussing with them further is enough to cause additional damage. However, with...
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How To Find Replacement Parts When Model Numbers Don’t Match
[Sharad Shankar] repaired a broken TV by swapping out the cracked and malfunctioning image panel for a new one. Now, part-swapping is a great way to repair highly integrated modern electronics like...
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8-Tracks Are Back? They Are In My House
What was the worst thing about the 70s? Some might say the oil crisis, inflation, or even disco. Others might tell you it was 8-track tapes, no matter what was on them. I’ve heard that the side of the...
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TDS 744A Scope Teardown Fixes Dodgy Channel
There are a lot of oscilloscopes from around the 1990s which are still very much desirable today, such as the Tektronix TDS 744A which [DiodesGoneWild] got his grubby mitts on. This is a 500 MHz,...
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A 1940s Car Radio Receives Some Love
The entertainment systems in modern vehicles is akin to a small in-dash computer, and handles all manner of digital content. It probably also incorporates a radio, but increasingly that’s treated as...
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Recovering An Agilent 2000a/3000a Oscilloscope With Corrupt Firmware NAND Flash
Everyone knows that you can never purchase enough projects off EBay, lest boredom might inadvertently strike. That’s why [Anthony Kouttron] got his mitts on an Agilent DSO-X 2014A digital oscilloscope...
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Everyone Needs a 1950s Signal Generator in their Life
At Hackaday, we comb the world of tech in search of good things to bring you. Today’s search brought up something very familiar, [Jazzy Jane] has an Advance E1 tube signal generator, the same model as...
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Five Ways to Repair Broken PCB Traces
When everything used wires, it was easy to splice them or replace them. Not so much with PC boards, but everyone has their favorite method for repairing a broken trace. [Mr. SolderFix] has his five...
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An AVO 8 Teardown
AVO meters — literally amp, volt, ohm meters — are not very common in North America but were staples in the UK. [TheHWcave] found an AVO 8 that is probably from the 1950s or 1960s and wanted to get it...
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Vintage Ribbon Cable Repair Saves Poqet PC
It sometimes seems as though computing power in your pocket is a relatively new phenomenon, but in fact there have been ultraportable computers since the 8-bit era. They started to become useful around...
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A Soviet Cassette Recorder Receiving Some Love
For those of us who lived in the capitalist west during the Cold War, there remains a fascination to this day about the Other Side. The propaganda we were fed as kids matched theirs in describing the...
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Over-molding Wires with Hot Glue and 3D Printed Molds
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: water always finds a way in. That’s particularly problematic for things like wire splices in damp environments, something that no amount of electrical tape...
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Fixing a Busted Fluke While Fighting a Wonky Schematic
Fluke meters have been around for a long, long time. Heck, we’ve got a Fluke 73 that we bought back in 1985 that’s still a daily driver. But just because they’ve been making them forever doesn’t mean...
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Ryobi Battery Pack Gives Up Its Secrets Before Giving Up the Ghost
Remember when dead batteries were something you’d just toss in the trash? Those days are long gone, thankfully, and rechargeable battery packs have put powerful cordless tools in the palms of our...
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Unusual Tool Gets an Unusual Repair
In today’s value-engineered world, getting a decade of service out of a cordless tool is pretty impressive. By that point you’ve probably gotten your original investment back, and if the tool gives up...
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Comparing AliExpress vs LCSC-Sourced MOSFETs
The fake AliExpress-sourced IRFP460 MOSFETs (Credit: Learn Electronics Repair, YouTube) These days, it’s super-easy to jump onto the World Wide Web to find purported replacement parts using nothing but...
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