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Can I save this battery damaged Amiga?
Can I save this battery damaged Amiga?
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This Amiga 500 Plus was very kindly donated to me last year by Neal of @NLKMediaGroup. He sent me this one along with …
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Lovely to see, and great job repairing it back into a healthy state!
Let's hope you don't start poopin breadbins as well…
There are green abrasive rubertips for the dremel. They might be better to the board.
I really suggest using a glass fiber pen to remove corrosion like that, most of it is surface level so it comes off pretty fast, but still a bit slower, but its a lot safer
Are those yellow caps near the chips VCC tantalums by any chance? The recap kits never include these.
Using a grinding bit on a dremel on PCBs sounds kind of dangerous to me. That could very well have caused some of the trace damage that you saw. I've seen other YouTubers who have used dremels on PCBs tend to use some sort of rubber tipped bits (I believe they are known as rubber polishing bits) which seems safer/more gentler, and indeed, aforementioned youtubers have had great success using these bits, I don't recall any time when they themselves caused any trace damage with them. They come in all sizes, so there are both smaller ones if you need precision, as well as larger ones if you have a wide swath that you need to clean up quickly. Might want to get yourself a set of those, they aren't very expensive.
wft pmsl 🙂
Excellent video for chilling on a Sunday 🙂
A masterclass in trace repair! BTW if you sneeze up some more GottaGoFast expansions, let me know, I need one for my A500!
Got to ask – why are trying to lever agnus out with the plcc remover? It is supposed to work by squeezing the handles, that pulls the metal claws straight up out of the socket by pushing the plastic part against the socket. If you lever the chip out it will always put strain on the legs and twist (or worse) one or more legs
WD-40 is not the best choice for electronics …
Only 2.0 and not 2.04 Roms?
Last week bought a chuck for my dremel (or LIDL version like yours).
Much better than faffing around with those collet things. I can switch tools in seconds.
Nice job! Congratulation! And the end of the video …. 🤣🤣🤣!
Power sneeze!
nice job bending the bodge wires to follow the trace paths! guess you would be great in data center cable management
12:06 jesus! you gotta wonder how much of this damage was from Dremeling and not from battery leakage. moving that chunky bit over those thin & delicate copper traces, especially near pads, was brutal.
Great skills and repair! Enjoyed watching.
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Nice repair another A500+ saved, did have good laugh at the sketch on the end of video 😄😂
Gkad you're feeling better and I enjoyed your giggle at the end 😁
Genuine question from someone just learning: is there a reason you didn't run the bodge wires from/to the vias rather than using the damaged traces? (Like I said, I'm no expert, just curious)
Just in the middle of doing a 500+ and thankfully the battery corrosion wasn’t to bad. I cut the battery off and bathed the grotty parts etc. The keyboard hardly works though so that needs investigation.
Nice work. I used a rubber dremel head to expose some traces on a battery damaged board and it worked quite well. It is still possible to burn through traces with it but you need to be pretty aggressive.
And uh, I've been to that doctor and I'm a little sceptical about his credentials. I've only just been able to sit down again
Removing all the nearby components first up, is definitely the way to go.
Ps, can you sneeze me a TF card?
Great work, Glen! Gives me ideas on how to fix my own projects! Trace repair looks like a PITA