A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Sony PS One Repair - Retro Console Restoration

The internal struggle as he tries to convince himself he doesn't need to glue the little plastic thing back in. Gold.

Ex-Sony engineer here, nice to see someone still cares enough to keep these little consoles alive. The dull joint was caused by a mixture of two different types of solder initially. Wicking it off and re-soldering was the way to go. It all got a bit melted though when replacing the cap. Probably not a bad idea, (as other people have suggested), to replace the rest of the capacitors, to save them leaking at a later date, maybe with a fine soldering iron tip instead. Just a thought. 🙂

FYI, I’ve done several of these repairs. It’s really best to replace the neighboring capacitor, too - it’s responsible for the s-video signal. So composite works now, but there’s a good chance s-video is still bad.

Great out take at the end 🤣🤣

That thumbnail 😂

Yessss we are back:elbowcough:

Great channel, you must be the only one who treats the consoles with care and respect and puts them on a cloth 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

More of this format in future videos please! 😎

I like this format. I know it might not always be feasible or practical for you to use, depending on the video, but I think it is really cool and shows the things going on that are normally off camera, like setting up for the repair, that brings value to the overall finished video. And the blooper at the end.....HILARIOUS!

I think you've just solved my issue with PSone to which I didn't know what's wrong. Thank you!

That was an entertaining watch, from beginning to end! Definitely highlights what goes into troubleshooting and actually going through with the repairs.

Excellent video buddy as like always, I'd like to know more about your self and how you fell into repairing electronics in general. Keep up the great work!! 👍

Great video, very detailed repair! So glad you removed those feet pads, yuck! Your workshop looks so cool.

Great work! Keep on rocking those consoles! And that ending... 😁😁😁

Just from the 3 videos I've seen of yours yet you deserve more subs.

I really like how even though you were filming the top down view,(not knowing you had messed up) you still spoke into the wide camera with eye contact. If you did not mention your mistake I would not have known

I discovered this channel today, and honestly I think you're my fav repair channel, and I watch many. Keep up the great work.

This is the kind of stuff DK oldies should be doing when they say they refurbished a console anyway I subscribe to your channel I love the content keep up the good work man stay positive

really like this "behind the scene" style, ty for sharing this repair

Great job. You need to be careful around those electrolytic caps with high temperature though, you can boil the liquid electrolyte pretty easily with those hot air guns. The cap then turns into a dangerous projectile which could possibly hit your eye, if you're not wearing safety glasses. I think it's also probably better to change all the caps in that area which came into contact with the hot air gun at least. But as you probably know yourself, these things could really do with a full cap replacement to future proof them. But that's just being nit picky 🙂