Things you have fixed/modded recently

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So, today I fixed both these babies: both were obtained from a bargain sale: the Xbox One S costed me about 40 bucks, the Wii 10. The Wii was just dirty, so all I had to do was clean it up and buy some plate replacements. The One S... oh boi. It had German cockroaches inside and was very dirty by itself. It still worked tho. Luckily I managed to find out about them way before they could touch my other consoles/electronics or invade my home. Sadly I didn't have the right tools to work on it, so I had to take it to an electronic store and get it cleaned up from the inside. The cockroaches ate the front panel from the inside so the only way to eject discs or turn on the console was through the gamepad. I got back home, kept it isolated anyway just to be sure, and ordered the replacement. I opened the console and found a small cockroach inside (again??? Even though they got it cleaned up????), so I managed to kill it before it could run away, called them again and asked them why didn't take it down them entirely. Their reply was "Oh yeah probably they were coming from the disc drive It's the only thing we didn't touch" (really??). Anyway, gave it to them again, got it cleaned up deeply, even the disc drive, got back home and that's it. Now the console is in an isolated room with cockroach baits'n such. Will keep it there for about 15 days. Before you wonder: yeah, the first thing I did when I came back home was taking it down apart again and check if there still were cockroaches inside. I also washed the shell with some lemon-based dish washing stuff and warm water.

Oh I also cleaned my Xbox360 controllers because they were a bit dirty and I realized my screwdriver set also had Xbox360 screwdrivers in there.
 
Recently pulled my PSP out of storage to set up as a portable emulator because I wanted to play Snatcher and immediately fell back in love with it. Been messing around with random homebrew since then.

Outside of that I rebuilt my phat PS3 because it's idling at like 75 C but unfortunately didn't see much improvement. Thought that the issue was my thermal paste application between the heat spreader and heatsink but now I'm leaning towards it being due to bad thermal transfer from the die to the heat spreader. Cleaned out a 360 S that looked like it was previously owned by smokers hoping to be able to flash the DVD drive and use it to back up my games only to find out after that you can only really do that with drives from phat models unless you want to get into permanent hardware modification.
 
Spent yesterday deep cleaning my Wii that I got from my friend. He lived next the to the ocean for most of his life and had fluffy dogs. So it had some rust and dog fur in it. The thermal pads were also rather dry, so I replace them with thermal paste. Runs a lot better now that it’s been cleaned
 
Watched a video tutorial (eww, I know), ordered the ladder string and fixed the horizontal blinds in my bedroom. Fucking cat chewed the string! Good thing she is cute.
She is also extremely smart, if she decided that string needed to be chewed then there was probably a very good reason. You may just owe her your life.
 
Recently fixed an issue where my Car's NAV/Audio system was partially broken. The FM Radio worked but all other features of the system were disabled. No Nav, apps, Bluetooth, AUX, etc working. After some digging around online I found out the unit comprises of two systems with an extension box being the component responsible for these features, and wouldn't you know it is also prone to failure over time.

Found a replacement unit off ebay for about $90 shipped. l took out my head unit, disconnected everything, replaced the box with the one I bought and reconnected everything. Sure enough when starting up the damn thing works as intended now.

I cannot stress how much it matters to me having the means to listen to my own music in my car. I am happy to have resolved this issue without having to spend a crapload of cash on it.

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I was cleaning out my closet and I found my old 2015 MacBook Air buried away. I charged it up and found it was stuck on a Windows 10 BSOD. My dumb 14-year-old self tried to run Bootcamp on it back in the day but I had no idea what I was doing. I ended up accidentally corrupting the Windows 10 partition (somehow) and then straight up deleting the macOS partition. So today I completely wiped it and then just installed El Capitan and it was good to go. Works pretty well after being buried in a closet for like five years.
 
I was given a Sonos Play:3. You plug it in and it never comes on. My buddy said he knows how I like to tinker with things, so he said I can keep it. Turned out to be a common issue that was resolved by soldering wire to bypass the defective trace on the pcb.
 

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Upgraded my bike some more.

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A wireless charging phone mount, a keyed ignition, and (you can’t see it) a motion alarm.

I was concerned that, while my bike is locked and I’m away, someone could start my bike and engage the throttle. The keyed switch is wired before the display. So now, you have to turn the key before you can turn on the display. My alarm will most likely trigger before someone gets that far.
 
Upgraded my bike some more.

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A wireless charging phone mount, a keyed ignition, and (you can’t see it) a motion alarm.

I was concerned that, while my bike is locked and I’m away, someone could start my bike and engage the throttle. The keyed switch is wired before the display. So now, you have to turn the key before you can turn on the display. My alarm will most likely trigger before someone gets that far.


I Love this completely. I truly truly do.

Only that, if I wished it badly enough.

[looks at the wires, looks at the wire Cutters in my hand, looks at the wires, looks at the wire cutters in my hand]

Get it?
 
I Love this completely. I truly truly do.

Only that, if I wished it badly enough.

[looks at the wires, looks at the wire Cutters in my hand, looks at the wires, looks at the wire cutters in my hand]

Get it?
Lol. Yes. Watch for the hydraulic fluid. And none of those go to my alarm. You can’t bypass it. You can, however, hot wire the ignition, IF you know where to look. Then again, my alarm will probably sound. I should see if I can wire my blinkers to the alarm. Then there would be no question as to which bike is sounding the alarm.

I may have more modding to do. :)
 
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Last year I bought a FAT PS3 off some dude, I didn't have time, nor knowledge, nor tools to tear it down and change the thermal paste... until yesterday. It took me a whole entire afternoon by how the console's built, but luckily I managed to reach to the end and change it... without too much issues. The guy was probably a smoker, too, since the console was very very dirty and any fiber cloth turned black.
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Anyway, I changed the thermal paste (first thermal paste change I ever done in my life, woohoo!) and put the PS3 back in.
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Aaaand this is it! Sadly the shell is not in good shape, I hope I can find a new one from a broken PS3 soon
 

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