Trying to FIX EVERYTHING! - JUNE 2024
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In this video I attempt to fix a random selection of broken items, some purchased from eBay, some sent into the channel by viewers. Some might be electrical fixes, some might be mechanical fixes. Mistakes will no doubt be made along the way. This is another feature length fixing episode that I try to release monthly. Every item fixed is another item potentially out of landfill, unfortunately though, very often not everything is fixable. Let's see how I get on. I hope you can sit back, relax and enjoy!
The Nine Violets music can be heard here nineviolets.bandcamp.com/
Remember that this is just for entertainment and I am not an expert in these repairs. The processes in the video may not be the best way, the correct way or the safest way to fix these things. I do love fault finding and trying to fix broken things, so I hope that comes across in these videos.
Many thanks, Vince. - Jak na to + styl
The madman finally did it. He fixed everything.
Can't wait for your first "3d printing my own darn gears" video.
Although that is a thing, for a couple of decades folks have been "casting" new gears at home for exactly these types of failures. ABS in particular is pretty cast and not as likely to shrink and crack as the nylon the originals are made out of.
@@michaelkrenzer3296 ABS is not abrasion resistant. That is why the gears are made from Nylon (also because it is self lubricating).
@@TylerDurden-pk5km I am aware but it also shrinks, as mentioned, which is fun when printing it but much worse when casting.
once he prints out his first custom piece his world is going to change when he realizes the possibilities that exist
@@Ismcant IKR, he might have to start a separate 3d channel.
One piece of advice when it comes to testing any OS on a raspberry pi is that you can never hot insert an SD card while the pi is running. That is because the bios tries to do a post and cannot find the SD card hence it will not boot. I always had to unplug the pi, plug the SD card in and then boot up the pi. Also notice that when the correct OS (and yes, there is a difference between a raspberry pi 1 OS to one of a raspberry pi 2, 3 or 4) will boot up in a way where the red LED will instantly light up and stay lit for a while (depends on the model and the OS used) , followed by a long blink of the yellow led indicating the POST initialization was successful and the OS can boot.
Gotta leave it to the Raspberry Pi people to replace one essential component for one that breaks easier and cannot be replaced. That whole "going public" thing is really making them wonders.
21:09 Vince, you absolute mad lad!
Even though it was unsuccessful in the end, that was a heck of a job soldering that many wires in such a small space! I've done some longer runs with some 0.1mm enamel wire before, and absolutely despise it. The risk of accidentally desoldering the wires around it in such a close space with such small wiring is too much for my anxiety-driven brain! Well done for giving it a go.
Yeah, it is a real pain, I have to remember I'm right handed and start from the correct side as one twitch and boom 4 previous wires come off 😂
@@Mymatevince Hi, Vince. There's no oil in nylon, just water. Hot water for a couple of hours will fix them (not the cracks).
Vince, You need a 3D printer so you can print new gears! It's really easy to design and print them and it works so well!!!
I've heard in one of his previous videos that he already has one 3d printer but in a box because he could not get time to set it up.
-Vince tries to fix a POPstation
-Ashens walks in: Are you mad mate!!!
My fave was the window cleaner as well👍! Satisfying to see the process of it getting fixed and then being used afterwards. (Signed again by: the ergonomic phone case owner😅)
Hahaha Naomi, nice to see you here. I hope that phone case is treating you well!!! Cheers for commenting.
You're the best Vince! Thanks for all the years of entertainment!
excellent as always.... i take apart a few small items now fixed a few ...recycled a few (not fixed) ....all because i watch your videos...
That Frankenstein Pi you created is my favorite thing I’ve seen this year so far. That should be recreated as a trophy to be given to mad lad techies like you. As always, very entertaining. Much love from IndianaLand USA!
Karcher window vac, the fan hub should have had some form of spring to squeeze it tight onto the motor shaft, either like a small hose clip, or a short length of extendible (pull) spring that is tight enough to break your fingernail when pushing it on. Unless a stainless spring, these would, of course, be susceptible to corrosion, so going the cheap cop-out route with a bit of plastic tubing was passed by the accountants!
that heat shrink split in two you can see into the crack when you push it down there is metal and the band of heat shrink moves down but the rest pops out the top.
I agree. I would have put larger heat shrink around the OUTSIDE of the cracked spindle (?) of the vacuum wheel to stop the crack from spreading. Maybe even multiple layers of heat shrink to hold it.
I agree. I would have tried to close that gap/crack on the impellor. I have used wire, wrapped around the plastic shaft and twisted tight. Volume control knobs ,on old radios used a spring clip round the outer bit, for the same purpose.
Okay this will probably be a longer comment than usual out here but i have been following your work for atleast 3 years now and i just have to say that even when you mention "I am not an expert" i just honestly think you have become an expert following your steps is so educational fun and challenging that you ignited that last spark in me to get my first solder station being 23 and now that i have learned a lot from you i will start fixing electronics just like you do you have inspired me to be better to learn and to teach others aswell thank you for being you much love
I agree with what you're saying, the alternative is seemingly being another consumer, but another one, and full up the landfill even faster. Me personally I'm not great with the electronic circuitry but I have acquired some useful basic items which, as collector and player of Retro video games can help me to know how to get something working, or understand why it doesn't work, so what needs to be done to get it working again.
I'm pretty sure you cut the lower part of the heat shrink that was around the pin and pushed it down while the loose end was pushed out through the top. Great vid as always!
To repair plastic parts I normally insert staples through the plastic, insert with a soldering iron and bend the backs over. It works well.
Hi Vince, I agree, my favorite fix is that window vacuum too. The problem could be heard from the beginning and I was expecting you to find something scraping against the propeller one way or another. And I am really amazed the control circuitry senses when something is blocking the motor and so shuts the device off. But it is even more clever than that (as I was able to hear when you tested it out after the fix): normally, when you block the suction side of a vaccuum cleaner, the propeller has much less air resistance (as you block the incoming air) and so the motor starts screaming and overturning and if you do it long enough, the motor overheats and burns out. With the device you fixed however, as soon as the air resistance decreases (as you block the suction side), the control circuitry senses this and the motor, after spinning up very briefly, slows down again to prevent overturning. Never noticed that with another vaccuum cleaner! Anyway, very nice video overall, as usual; it suited my needs perfectly after some turbulence at work today. :-)
Vince little tip for you when the sprockets crack glue some metal washers on the side that’s what I do on my retro remote cars works well
An obstacle course with a hammer, having fun repairs dremel tool, a smelly slipper, a mug and a bunch if bananas interesting combination Vince 😂😂😂😂
I've never heard of 9 violets but I really like that song. It's very familiar and has some Beatles sounds mixed with 90s alternative rock. I love it.
Lovely compliment. Many thanks
Cool items and nice fixes 👍 Interesting that car racing game, never seen one before with detachable display. Always nice to see 80's toys getting fixed as well. Can't remember seeing an ad of it, but maybe I was a bit old for this toy anyway, turned 12 in 1986.
Vince you are the bodge master, well done 😀
Your commitment to the bodge is astounding. Viva la rat'sberry pi.
Stuart getting two shoutouts in one section a new record.
😂😂
For the window thingy, I would have put the heatshrink on the center piece with the crack so that the heatshrink would squeeze the center on the shaft causing more friction... I don't know how the plastic would have reacted to heat, but maybe localized with the iron, the heatshrink would have shrunk nicely. adding to the shaft will only make the crack bigger.
On the monster machine I'm pretty sure the motor gear wasn't engaging with the axle because there should have been another brass spacer / bearing on the axle similar to the one the spring pushed against. The spacer would have compressed the spring and moved the gears into mesh with the motor. The missing bearing might also be partly responsible for the lack of power.
I thought so too.
1:22:25 nice fix with the heat shrink. I had a simmiliar problem with a desk fan, fixed it with a zip tie on the stud. The zip tie holds the crack so it can't crack any more than it did, and it's still working fine years later :)
Those karcher window vacs are the best. I absolutely loathe cleaning windows, but that thing makes it fun and satisfying. Great fix!
Brilliant mixture Vince I really enjoyed it I can’t wait for the next instalment, I agree the window vac was the best, you get a lot of them that are water damaged and fans that are fouling on the cowling too they’re designed to fail.
Always enjoy the challenges you take on. I have had very good luck remaking gears exactly like the many cracked gears you feature in these videos. PET-G and Nylon are now easy to print with modern printers. I just make the shaft hole slightly small and place them in boiling water before I slide them onto the shaft.
Great video vince. You need to get yourself a hot stapler. It does exactly what you did but it's ready made and built for it. I use mine all the time. Also, if you do ever go down the path of getting a 3d printer for making parts, resin printers are better than FDM for functional parts. I have both and they're both good for different tasks
Spider, spider on the wall, who is the craziest fixer of them all? It's my mate Vince, with nerves of steel, long may last his copper reel! Though a tip for the master I have one, get together with PCBWay and design a tiny interconnect PCB for all the broken Raspberry pies. (PCB > PCB > Chip)
😂😂 Cheers Marcel!
@@Mymatevince You are very welcome mate :-D
On that Karcher repair. I rekon the heatshrink sheared off into two parts, the bottom part slid down the motor spindle and the top bit pushed out the end. The motor spindle and the fan hub sheared it off.
Well done on the Karcher vac. Good fix. Enjoyed it. Looking forward to the next one. Enjoy your window cleaning. It's really good for spills, when your washing machine next as a problem or your freezer defrosts. 😂
1:17:28 "It looks like a very nice crack", steady on Vince!
Really been enjoying these fix everything video's
What a great fix on that Tyco!
regards the heat shrink on the shaft ..... the one heat shrink you put on split in two, if you watch again as the piece slides down you can see the steel shaft in the opening crack so the upper piece that was left came out the top, both parts were from the one piece of heat shrink you put on
Love these videos Vince, keep them coming treir better then tv 👍🏻
Just the kind of video I needed today. 😊
@1:21:34 you can see where the heat sink got split in half by the fan shaft hole as it was pressed on causing the bottom half of the shrink tube to stay at the bottom of the fan blade, but the rest of the tube stuck at the top of the shaft hole in the fan blade. The motor shaft is clearly visible in the split section of the shaft hole.
Vince, two things I thought while watching the video about the toy truck - seeing the plastic apparently bent and the parts were farther apart then they should, you could have use a heat gun or hair dryer to bring them closer again.
Now, if because of the angle and repaired gears the truck lost traction, you could increase the power. Two suggestions - use a modern lithium battery or better yet, there are some tiny DC to DC converter boards that you could use. I guess they are not that expensive coming from China and if I’m not wrong, some are even adjustable. Of course I know it’s just a toy and it makes no practical sense, I’m just thinking about the problem-solving aspect.
I agree ! your ideas reasonably quick to try. :)
Hi Vince.
Love your videos, BUT with the Karcher repair, sorry to burst your bubble but I do not think it will last too long, for this reason:- Time line 1:20:13 if you look carefully you can see the crack on the fan/turbine open up and:- Time line 1:20:19 there is further evidence of the crack in the dome just under the protruding heat shrink. The mystery of the extra heat shrink. It is my guess the heat shrink split in half at the end of the shaft when the fan/turbine was pushed in place, the lower half sliding down the shaft and top half being bushed by the shaft through the hole at the blade side. All that been said I enjoy the way you work out a fix to things like this and like other comments 3D printed gear replacements could be a whole lot of fun for you.
Keep up the GREAT work.
enjoyed it all Vince 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
@1:21:26 What I am thinking is the heat shrink was 'cut' by forcing the compressor wheel over the metal rod of the motor. Leaving one part on the top and moving the other part down like on the first attempt. No way they used some piece of heat shrink to make things fit...
I was most amused to research that the "Game Kid' was produced by a company called "Intendro". They also produced a console called an "IES" and other Nintendo type rip offs. The Tomy truck thing probably is down on power as old cheap motors use permanent magnets that lose their magnetism over time. The model train boys have to re-magnetise the magnets in old models as they lose most of their power after 30+ years. Great fix-a-thon!
For the raspberry pi try using a official raspberry pi power supply I know it may sound crazy but if you did then the raspberry pi would have booted up
The heat shrink broke as you pushed in it by the looks of it you can see the shiny shaft through the crack 😮
I couldn’t believe my eyes 😂😂😂 when I saw all of those wires 😅
You get one of those window vacuum thingies in the game House Flipper. I had no idea it was a real thing.
car bumper repair gun and staples is what you want viniboy
I had one of those game kids and I loved it
Karcher window vac was for sure the best fix.
Wow, you have spent so much energy to create this wire spider on Raspberry Pi. I would be extremely surprised if it would work, but even if it would ,it would be terrible in terms of EMC emissions. This chip is complex multiple DCDC converter. And for them the layout of the board and placement of inductors and capacitors is crucial. They have to be really close, so you have very small loop area for switching current. And this switching can be even more then 1 MHz and currents can be really big. With such a long wires probably it will not work at all, if it works voltages generated can be unstable and noisy and it will emit lots of radio interferences... In most datasheets for such chips you get the recommended layout and you really should follow it unless you really know what you are doing. And usually they say to place inductors and capacitors as close as possible.
Vince,there is a tool that welds shaped metal into plastic ! but can't remember where i saw it ! think it it would be ideal for you,but if i put a link on here youtube will just delete it,like they have done to me in the past ! plastic welding kit sold on the famous shopping place that i can't seem to mention on this platform ! begins with a
When you talk about whether there was a sleeve inside the fan on that Karcher window cleaner. I think there definitely is. Look at your close up of the crack and you’ll see what appears to be a circle inside the hole the rotor slides into. No idea why it has a crack in it like the fan body. Makes me think it was hard plastic as well.
That is dogged determination. It was worth a try Dr. Frankenstein.
Vince, get yourself a 3d printer and test your skills at designing plastic gears to replace these nylon gears. You can even get a printer that prints nylon. Some will print a carbon fiber nylon for strength. Couple that with a pair of digital calipers for measuring and I'm sure you can work it out. Your a smart guy that has an inclination for this type of stuff. (From what i can tell from your videos)
NO WAY, 100% BINGEING THIS
MMV invented heat staples!
Definitely waiting for you to begin resin printing new gears.
A Frankenberry computer!! Best wishes from the USA!
My son drove us crazy for a monster machine truck for Christmas in around 1986, I think he was about 6 at the time, (he is 44 now, (blimey makes me feel old)
I just phoned him to watch your video and he said that even when they were new it didn't climb, or even work all that well, the motor stalled easily, nothing like the graphics shown on the box advertises.
He said it packed in within a month when he attempted to drive it down our staircase
It wouldn't drive up them, so being a kid, why not let it go down landing in a dozen pieces at the bottom..
He didnt let on until now that he did it though
Hahaha, brilliant! The guilty secret revealed 38 years later 😂😂😂
Should get yourself a small plastic welder kit... like they use to repair cracked car bumpers small pieces of metal melted into the plastic I'm sure you could find a smaller version giving you the best chance of repairing the broken gears... just a thought love the content
The Raspberry Pi PMIC would have been such a great opportunity to pick up a JLPCB sponsorship ... by designing a small two sided board.
If anyone can fix everything, it's Vince! Please Vince, fix EVERYTHING!
The heat shrink rips in half when you push the fan blade on. The other half ended up sticking out of the top of the fan. If you look closely you can see the heat shrink tear in 2.
I think the heatshrink broke when you pushed the fan blade down the shaft.
Get urself a plastic printer you can recreate gears then and parts for ur fixes
You can buy a heat gun, looks like a soldering iron with twin nozzles (plastic welder) that comes with staples designed to do that job. Might be a bit big tho.
Loving that thumbnail and title
A channel that upgrades them nylon gear toys would do well I think
Orange Mat? Am I in the twilight zone? What fresh hell is this
Maybe you couldn't print a gear with a 3D printer, but you could print a new back for that Game Kid handheld complete with hook. What an interesting little device.
I might be mistaken but, in the case of the Raspberry Pi, could you use a razor to cut the pads where they're extending in to the ground plane on the replacement chip? They're connected on the other side so trimming the excess shouldn't be an issue, provided you do it neatly. That way, you could solder the replacement IC on without having to run 32 jumpers.
There is a product out there that does exactly the job of your "copper staple". I believe it was Big Clive that I saw do a video on it a while back. May be worth checking out with all the gears you keep coming across.
absolutely that ebay description was AI but i agree it was a cool product. another use for the karcher is for condensation on windows
Monster machines were great 😊 as well as micro
I know this for a fact. A Rspberry Pi 4 needs a proper power supply. I think it could be a 4 amp . I had two and as soon as it was connected it went dead. As soon as I bought the original ones they worked flawless.
Epic soldering! But I note that at 4.00 min the board is drawing 8 to 10 mA, the same as after soldering at 21.51.
1:17:42 The bushing is a rolled bit of steel. The plastic has broken along that seam.
For the Pi MXL7704 you could check all the Vout pins 8 (1.5 to 3.6V), 25 (3 to 3.6V), 9 (1.3 to 1.9V), 32 (0.8 to 1.5V), 19 (0.6 to 1.4V), though these PMICs include I2C and I don't know whether the processor is controlling them (probably). Edit - on further reading it appears that the firmware checks for the presence of the DA9090 and, allegedly, won't work with anything else
Love, Jealousy, Touch, Forever, Intense, Passion, Vince Obsession (0:35).
"EVERYONE!" - Gary Oldman in Leon: The Professional
One of his best performances and there are many
I am no Pi expert but as far as I know they don't come with software, that's stored on the SD and I didn't hear you mention if you had the software installed on the SD. Revisit Vince. PS Love the channel, especially the Rolls videos.
I liked embedding the metal into the gear, but I wonder if you should clamp the gear tight first? So it won't slip on the axle.
I like the series
Those nylon gears are the bane of "modern" sewing machines.
Bad idea using plastic gears for anything it blows my mind how many power tools like drills etc are now made with them.
They'll be lucky to last a dozen uses, it's all to cater for saved fractions of penny's.
Really annoys me how today's appliances and such are made to barely maybe avoid the warranty. My maybe idiotic dad keeps replacing old stuff which was quality with new things that don't even do their primary job and that's why I get annoyed about this stuff.
@@teknikal6969 We repair older sewing machines but the nylon gear ones--- it is pretty much ALWAYS the same problem, the main gear on the drive shaf is split & it is a NIGHTMARE getting it all back together unless you have the correct jigs for the particular machine. Still, it keeps the professionals in work 🙂
Now hold on a minute - As a collector, I do like the things I collect to look the part (mostly) but for me it's more important for the thing to actually work. Game Boys are the exception because while I certainly want them to work I prefer to mod them because the original experience was absolutely terrible lol. I wouldn't pay you a dime for a dissected all original Game Boy in a lovely shadow box but I would pay for one that worked.
For the Pi, cay you not obtain the datasheets for the pinouts of the blown chip & the potential replacement? That should help enormously with figuring which trace should go where (& assorted bridges if necessary). Also, you said originally you had 2 boards: one you bought as a replacement (which you cannibalised); is the other board still around to act as another potential donor?
WRT the GameKid you /may/ be able to cut down a really small triangular 'bulldog' clip to restore the cartridge clip, tho I'm unsure how you'd affix it to the plastic body
Always with mechanical devices, noise indicates inefficiency. Excess noise is usually easily identifiable even with human ears (eg a fan rubbing or a bearing grating, or underpowered/overpowered motor), so an easy (& satisfying) fix (or simply diagnosis if parts aren't available) there :)
As always, well done!
1:25:08
I bet Mrs. Vince was thrilled!
Love the new red mat. Better than the yellow one!
I wasn’t bought up on computers, what is a raspberry pi ? Another great video 👌
@44:00 noice catto-pesterer....
Be glad you're not dealing with Phillips electronics's 'Red Leicester Cheese' gears....
We would've put a spring around that fan (bearing? shaft?) or wrapped a mini-paperclip around it because putting heat shrink around the motor's drive shaft will just cause more damage.
Hi Vince, a Pi will not display anything without a micro SD card having the software installed off the Pi site, the bios looks for the correct boot sequence or it goes to sleep. the same is for most of the other micro boards too, try it again with Pi OS installed first, it will take a while as it sorts its self out. Use Balena Etcher or Pi install to setup the micro SD card correctly as you have to write an image file to it.
The older pi's dont have a bootrom indeed! But the pi4 and pi5 do. They just show a "no os" screen with a qr code when powered
More like the heat shrink snapped in half after the heating of it
That Game Kid listing is definitly AI generated 😊
Yeah. 100%. It's the same stuff you read on every second posting.
Hi I always lv your video and interest in the games and gadgets I found this one for sale I read this a bootleg version of the game boy
You should have a rest from time to time mate, it's not healthy to work all the time you know
Don't encourage him. He must never stop. Never. I have spoken.
Some people enjoy fixing things. I’m lucky to get paid to do it also.
some people just need to get their fix (;
There is a resistor on your old pi 4 board instead of a capacitor on the new one.
Hi Vince, could you tell me what Emissivity you use on your Flir please, and whether you added an additional lens to it? I have a Hikmicro version and I know very little about thermal cameras. Thanks, excellent vid as usual
We need another fixes around your house.