I Bought ARGOS CUSTOMER RETURNS to FIX - Can I Make ££$$€€

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10 ай бұрын

Hi, in this video I bought an Argos customer returns box to attempt to fix the broken items.
So what will be inside, will anything be fixable or will it all be broken beyond repair.
Let's find out.
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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 this 'Trying to FIX' series. Many thanks, Vince.

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@ChrisUnitt82 10 ай бұрын

So nice to see these things being fixed instead of being sent to landfill

@TymexComputing 10 ай бұрын

The same i think - thank you ! BTW the glue gun (by hot-air) was great - i hope one time in a wholesale you would find the real glue gun :) but it wastes more glue than your method. Like a toothpaste tube wastes more toothpaste than needed :)

@techhead-bedhead 9 ай бұрын

what would have been nicer is if these ultra cheap low quality items were never produced in the first place

@afzaalkhan.m 9 ай бұрын

Low-cost, bulk buys by big chains order these substandard items for big profits

@mwizard1464 8 ай бұрын

Yepper!

@MrSpown1989 7 ай бұрын

Don't worry, Amazon still throws lots of good things to landfill 😢

@leonardhirtle3645 8 ай бұрын

I love watching you bring these broken items back to life. Thank you from a bedridden old man. I find it entertaining and educational.

@a4andrei 10 ай бұрын

The 2nd clock was definitely tampered with. There's no way it would have left the factory in that state. Someone messed with it, and then returned it as faulty. My #1 reason for never buying open box or returned goods, even if they work, is that you never know who had them before, and what they did to them.

@Toca_waffle843 10 ай бұрын

Or maybe someone sabotaged someone else's alarm clock for some devious motive. Then the owner rightfully thought it had just broken and returned it as faulty.

@omniferousswan593 9 ай бұрын

That's far far less likely, often times you cannot get a full refund for a working product, it's easier to just open it and snip a wire, then when the company receives the item and verifies that it doesn't work, you get your money back.@@Toca_waffle843

@mbak7801 8 ай бұрын

Buy a clock and change your mind there is no refund. Take the back off and cut random wires gets your money back.

@Occone10413 2 ай бұрын

@@mbak7801 Exactly that! Then the seller's loss gets put into the overall price of their products, so the rest of the customers pay for a select few to enjoy free products. I've got a cheap scale to use in making espresso and it's inaccurate, so I decided to return it. Had to contact Amazon because I couldn't print a return label and spoke with two different agents, got the label issue sorted, all without even asking me what was wrong with the product...

@fuhgawz500 Ай бұрын

Could simply be terrible QC.... never know.

@pvc988 10 ай бұрын

Old devices often had block/part diagrams glued somewhere inside their cases. And it was a norm to get the schematic sheet distributed as an insert in the user's manual.

@Tycowiz 10 ай бұрын

I remember that too.

@309electronics5 10 ай бұрын

Those were not that complex back then, nowadays everything is in one chip with billions of transistors and proprietary circuitry, but without what we have these days we wont be on the internet or we would still use computers the size of rooms

@pvc988 10 ай бұрын

@@309electronics5 Things like color tube TVs were quite complex. Certainly more complex than 90s highly integrated devices. Also, there are schematics of things like PC and laptop motherboards available to download (not always legally, but still). Usually it's just a couple of sheets. Would be easy to print and put into a manual. No one expects internal chip diagrams. Even just a part list would be enough.

@I_Don_t_want_a_handle 10 ай бұрын

I think companies have come to two conclusions here. Most people will not even think of repairing something and of those that do, few will try. Add in the desire of companies for customers to buy again, though why one would if the thing broke, and why would printing a schematic be anything but a useless cost to a company?

@AstrosElectronicsLab 10 ай бұрын

Doesn't happen much these days with these cheap Chinese products. Except some microwaves, maybe... edit: however, it doesn't take that much more time to add the part number of the ICs to the silkscreen... I loath seeing "U1", "R1".. ok, cool, that refers to a reference number on the schematic, we don't have one... just print the part number.

@devttyUSB0 11 ай бұрын

I like these random fixes. Honest faults indeed!

@Mymatevince 10 ай бұрын

Excellent, thanks devtty 😎

@Bwong55 10 ай бұрын

yeah what i think happened with the second clock is that someone didnt like it so cut the wires and returned it as faulty - they also asked for a refund.

@Lachlant1984 10 ай бұрын

I don't know why you'd do that. It's a cheap clock radio, clearly, but a cheap clock radio is better than no clock radio in my view.

@RealEpikCartfrenYT 10 ай бұрын

i did that with a cheap cellphone. intentionally overdischarged the battery and tampered with the charger so I can return it. Some stores just don't accept a "change of mind/item no longer needed" as a valid reason to return a product.

@Lachlant1984 10 ай бұрын

@@RealEpikCartfrenYT What country do you live in? I think here in Australia we generally have the right to return something if we decide we don't like or want it, but it has to go back within 14 or 30 days or something. I could be wrong though, I can't remember exactly, but you do have rights as a consumer.

@RealEpikCartfrenYT 10 ай бұрын

@@Lachlant1984 Bosnia and Herzegovina is my country's name. There _are_ stores which do accept returns normally but in this case I needed to tamper with it as they only accept if it's faulty.

@MrLingering 10 ай бұрын

Argos has 14 day money back no questions so seems a bit silly but people be crazy :)

@bjorntheviking6745 9 ай бұрын

I am an electronics engineer, I have a bachelors and a masters and spent most of my career as a design engineer and watching these videos make me realise how much of a prima Donna I am. I would want schematics and a direct line to the designer, a rider and an assistant. Well done guys for doing this, believe it or not most engineers are happy you exist, the companies we work for probably not so much! You patience as well is astounding, I would have bailed in the first I don’t know… 2 minutes. The reason it is not printed on the silk is the BOM.. I think there does not need to be a schematic available but the BoM would be helpful

@gilles111 10 ай бұрын

The second clock, with the cut wires, looks like someone has a "smart kid" wanting to repair items and opened their new clock radio and cut some wires to "repair" the clock. Parents noticed no sound and returned the item.

@jrsc01. 10 ай бұрын

a great pity that not more High Street, Catalogue and Retail Returns Centres aren't employing apprentices, repairers, restorers and technicians to repair and fix stuff to restock as 'refurbished' etc. - Would make such a difference especially for Electron waste such as these from entering landfill.

@entomopathogenicfungus904 10 ай бұрын

It really is such a shame that people are so quick to throw things away and buy new things. There are pretty much no consumer products you can buy that are made to last like they used to be!

@kjamison5951 10 ай бұрын

BER - Beyond Economical Repair. A technician being paid £8 per hour takes two hours to fix a £10 radio. Which probably cost £4 to manufacture before the markup. I know this because I worked at an eFab firm where they were fixated on the length of time to repair something. Their margins were very low which was on them.

@BG101UK 10 ай бұрын

@@kjamison5951 Exactly my thoughts. Only practical as a hobby. It's a shame stuff has been cheapened so much as to become disposable.

@ojbeez5260 10 ай бұрын

@@kjamison5951 spot on, not economically viable.

@sleepwalker6825 10 ай бұрын

You don't know how Argos returns work or where they Go So why comment

@bernardcromarty485 10 ай бұрын

The 'wire with fabric' will be Litz wire, where wire and thread are spun together to reduce 'skin effect' where radio frequencies are present. It also is used on loudspeakers to reduce metal fatigue where the link wires are flexing...

@manolisgledsodakis873 10 ай бұрын

Absolutely right. :)

@zedcarr6128 10 ай бұрын

I suspect that the Bush DAB Radio had the wrong power supply plugged into it that took out the regulator and audio amp IC. Great fixes as always, Vince. 😊

@englishrupe01 10 ай бұрын

Yep, very often these audio things have centre negative and most supplies are centre positive. I bet they didn't check first.

@chrisg6597 10 ай бұрын

@@englishrupe01 Japanise products tend to use centre negative. i.e. Casio, Brother, Epson etc.

@englishrupe01 10 ай бұрын

@@chrisg6597 Yep, and a lot of guitar stuff does, too.

@countzero1136 10 ай бұрын

@@chrisg6597 And several '80s home computers too. If you're lucky the device will have a reverse diode on the input that will blow dead short in the event of reverse polarity and only kill the power supply not the whole device. If you're REALLY lucky it might also have a fuse which will blow when the diode shorts to protect the power supply as well

@onewheelnut 10 ай бұрын

Could the problem be the cells were fitted arse about face

@Doobrie2 10 ай бұрын

The AM radio has been purposely damaged/disabled so that it could be returned as not working. In case the staff plugged it in not only does the Tuner not work there is no sound. No-one opens the equipment up to check for physical internal damage so they get their money back. And they then go back and purchase another one which they will also return within the year of purchase. Thanks @Mymatevince for another cracking video, you really are awesome!

@EsotericArctos 10 ай бұрын

With those dome switches, you could turn on the radio when it apart and press the button with your finger to test. More often than not the switch is not the fault, but looks like you got lucky with that one and it wasn't aligned correctly :) Good to have a success on the first one. The speaker fault looks deliberate. Customer didn't like it and wanted a return. Looking closely at the speaker, looks like it was deliberately cut. There is a band switch on the radio, someone cut out the AM Loop Antenna also. Speaker polarity with a single speaker is not important as a speaker uses AC, so you can connect them either way. On a device like this phasing is not important. The battery polarity, I've seen it often with Chinese made devices having the colours wrong

@terrygee210 10 ай бұрын

Hi Vince. Unless they are heavily shielded, switch mode power supplies cause too much interference, especially on AM bands, to be used inside radios.

@Mymatevince 10 ай бұрын

Thank you Terry👍👍

@Loudness84 10 ай бұрын

Great video 🍻 20:09 The polarity of the speaker does matter. As soon as you get near another speaker with the correct polarity, playing exactly the same, you may hear some weird sound cancellation effects 😉 Starting at 26:30 , you talk about "Right to repair", how it would be better to have access to documentation of circuitry in some way. Somebody already mentioned, how it's been normal, that schematics and parts lists of a product were included in delivery...they stopped doing this decades ago, bit by bit, time flies 😳 Louis Rossmann is heavily lobbying for RtR and I think its a good thing to make people aware of these bad practices. 34:54 Measure it. Your Multimeter has mA uA and A connections. To use them, plug the red probe into the A. Break the circuit and use the probes to bridge the supply output to the circuit input through the multimeter. If the measurement is below 0.2 A (200 mA) use the mA mode and connection. And MAKE SURE you are not using the amp measurement connections for modes they are not intended for, as it MIGHT DESTROY your multimeter, or the circuit, or both, you can even pop a circuit breaker by accident. Never measure how many amps a supply can provide, if you don't know its regulation capabilities...done it on a german 3.5 kw breaker 🙈 nice pop 39:22 list of features says it, Power Supply Ripple Rejection. This is kind of what you want for the application "radio". Both were a good choice, but the first may have had a hard time coming up from shutdown with its max 0.5 watt rating 😅 the second one delivers roundabout 1 W max. and might pop just like the factory one, if 1W is not enough (measure it 😆). EN and SHDN with the line above means NOT in binary logic. So like, not shutdown when true (voltage).

@Marineio 10 ай бұрын

At 3:03 there is a tiny little piece of black (possibly plastic?) visible on the centre of the affected cap, moving the switches around probably disturbed it. Nice troubleshooting though!

@jrsc01. 10 ай бұрын

noticed that also, a very small speck rendered it useless! great fixes Vince!

@seguramlk 10 ай бұрын

28:00 Absolutely well put my friend. The problem is that they want you to buy a new one when it breaks 😑

@jonathanInLondonUK 10 ай бұрын

The ENABLE pin, is high to enable. The SHDN pin had a line above it, so it was an inverted signal, so that's low to shut down. They are the same thing.

@jasejj 10 ай бұрын

Yeah probably just inadequate current on the first one.

@henrikstenlund5385 8 ай бұрын

The FM antenna is usually a single wire and the AM antenna is a coil around a ferrite rod. Good work, man

@SW-ci9zv 10 ай бұрын

Love your patience / ingenuity, and ability to apply what you know to fix these things. Excellent video presentation as well.

@andymouse 10 ай бұрын

If your worried by the current draw in battery mode of your radio (or any battery device) simply put your meter into Milliamp mode and pull out a battery and remake the connections but with your meter in series, basically let the current flow through the meter as wall as the radio and read of the current when on and then measure when off. Probably next to zero when off maybe a few milliamps, dunno...cheers.

@mrpetit2 10 ай бұрын

You need microamp resolution to measure this, but his multimeter has that setting.

@keithbrothwood847 10 ай бұрын

Hi Vince, I enjoyed every minute, love the way you go about fault finding, ok it may or may not be financially worthwhile but you are keeping these out of landfill which is superb, I will certainly be watching future vids. as they really make my day, pity there isn't a channel on free view it would be so much better than the mindless crap they have showing right now, keep going you're a star mate.

@ftrueck 10 ай бұрын

For the second bush radio: looks like someone needed the JST connector which is why it is missing and also the wires to the speaker.

@GenuineParts 10 ай бұрын

Either this or it was a QC Unit, which was intentionally manipulated, that got through.

@TheCod3r 10 ай бұрын

Love these random faults. Great job Vince

@Mymatevince 10 ай бұрын

Thank you Phil😎

@huffmancc1 10 ай бұрын

Fun series, love the multiple random repairs.

@brianjames6890 10 ай бұрын

Brilliant watching you work through these faults. Well worth watching. 👍👏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍👏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@Club_Michas 10 ай бұрын

I remember when I bought broken PC Speakers from Conrad Electronics für under 5 Bucks, it had the Ground trace missing on the Audio Input. I soldered a Jumper wire and fixed it, It's unbelievable that some Manufacture skip the quality control, at least for some people it's an advantage to get a Cheap Device which are sometimes easy fixable, but for regular customers it's annoying to have the rassle to return it, or even fail after a short period of time.

@kevincozens6837 9 ай бұрын

Nice to see items being fixed instead of going to landfill. It is particularly good to see when some of the fixes are minor. Minor glitch in the rolling text? Chas Newport is listed twice in the club member section.

@ThePhoenix198 8 ай бұрын

🎵Newport, Newport, so good they named him twice 🎵

@KaleOrton 7 ай бұрын

I repair a lot. Love to see broken things brought back to life! Always new things to learn from watching others. Many thanks for your excellent channel. 👌

@ThePaulharwood 10 ай бұрын

hi vince you make fixing things look easy ..... and brighten my day as i am disabled a bit ! i have been watching you for a long time kind regards paul h

@voltare2amstereo 10 ай бұрын

iron transformers are used in clock radios because the time is mains referenced, over a year the clock will be almost dead acurate in most areas

@borisdg 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for the enjoying content as always. Loving watching it when i chill on weekends. :)

@joandodds7626 5 ай бұрын

I’ve always backed away from electronics... you sir are educating a old folk that will take on any repair as long as it’s challenging

@mrjsv4935 10 ай бұрын

Nice fixes as always :) Looking forward to the next part.

@andykirby 10 ай бұрын

Awesome video! Its so satisfying fixing stuff. The cool thing about this is if monetised this video has probably made about £400 so it was worth him doing it but also it has likely inspired many to try and repair broken stuff too 😊 everyone's a winner!

@colinbrickell1301 10 ай бұрын

Excellent video. I like the way you go through your thought process while doing the repair. Subbed.

@bbwiebz3994 2 ай бұрын

just came across your channel last night, brings back lots old memories of taking stuff apart to diagnose and fix and sell on, its so satisfying seeing some many of these products with such minor issues fixed to find a new home and giving it a chance to do what its designed for, save so much junk in landfill that doesnt to be. i always salvage batteries out of disposable vapes and build portable power banks or LED portable torch or lanterns for camping with them or repurpose them for other electronic projects in future. Subbed by the way cos im sure alot of your contents will help myself others out there to fix their goods before even considering dumping it.

@raymondchandler2489 10 ай бұрын

That one with cut wires will be a change of mind return that they have sabotaged to look like it was faulty.

@garulle1662 10 ай бұрын

when I was a kid there was a paper in side radios and stuf that had schismatics in there

@marcellipovsky8222 10 ай бұрын

Hi Vince, what a fixer MARATHON! BTW I think that the regulator on the radio blew because someone connected a 12V or a laptop adapter to it. Regarding the power draw, you can always disconnect one of the battery leads and put the multimeter in between to measure it. ;-)

@Mymatevince 10 ай бұрын

Cheers Marcel👍

@tgheretford 10 ай бұрын

According to the Argos representatives, the radio you repaired does not support DAB+. Which is an absurd design and manufacturing choice to make nowadays. If that is the case, let's hope the new owner does not want to listen to Classic FM on digital radio come the new year.

@sleepwalker6825 10 ай бұрын

?? representatives ??

@yootooooooob 10 ай бұрын

@@sleepwalker6825on the Argos website, Technician replied to a message saying its not DAB+. Not a big deal as its not advertised as such and is only £20.

@IntelliPocalypse 6 ай бұрын

Digital radio? Am I missing something

@ArcAiN6 10 ай бұрын

22:00 Deductive reasoning is your friend. You've traced the power input to the 5-pin IC. You assume the 5pin sot23-5 is an LDO, because it has two filtering caps (one for input, and one for output) Since you know 5pin sot-23-5 based LDO's pretty much have only a few pinout configurations, you can further narrow it down based on a few criteria 1) Where is the VCC, GND inputs? 2) Which way around is the output? 3) Is there a current sense resistor / divider attached, if so, to where? Once you've run these questions down, you can pretty easily narrow down the IC type you'll need From what i can see (and you should probably verify the connection points) it looks to me to be an AP2205 or similar adjustable LDO

@frozendude707 10 ай бұрын

I used to have a PC repair shop and once came across a GPU that seamed fine apart from a physically mangled capacitor, being an ASUS channel partner and having access to original spares for their laptops I decided to get in touch with them to simply ask for the correct value, after a bit of fenageling and representatives the final answer I got was that it was proprietary info and they will not risk letting it out there lest someone manages to get enough info to copy it. Bit of a change from when all HiFi and radio equipment would come with the schematics inside the cover. Many manufacturers nowadays even grind off the labels from key components.

@The_Keeper 10 ай бұрын

And this is why we need Right-to-repair laws in place everywhere, who include the requirement for public access to technical schematics. And fines that actually matter for breaking them. (None of this, "we'll fine you 2 million for this" when they *Made* 2 billion on it). I'd say .1% of the annual earnings for the first infraction, and every time they are proven to intentionally break it, we move the decimal point one spot to the right. Bet you no one of them will ever go beyond 3 times. Heh, Apple would be funding half the world in 2 years...

@elvisburgerking8675 9 ай бұрын

modern Argos stuff just oooozes build quality who needs all that vintage Hifi from the 70s and 80s.

@bignbuilds3209 10 ай бұрын

😂 worked in a Alba Bush TV refurbish place when i left school this is a common fault .. they all either dont align or brake off. and normally can be fixed with a soldering iron . RADIO/TV fix.. keep up the good work ..😍

@alext8828 5 ай бұрын

Astonishing detective work. Such great logic. Sherlock Ohms. I couldn't do this. I haven't the temperament (yet). But I carry these thoughts with me when I get frustrated working on something. It's like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Thank you for that.

@tonythornton1383 10 ай бұрын

I bought one of these bundles Vince (pretty sure same seller). They’re all Argos returns and are mostly easy fixes. They downsides are some are cheap plastic breakages that very hard to fix confidently.

@Mymatevince 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, I bet it is the same seller👍 Nice to get some easy fixes though even if the quality of the products are questionable!

@Phiyedough 10 ай бұрын

@@Mymatevince I don't believe that many people are buying those CD Walkman things when you can just load a heap of music files into your phone.

@cyclic2696 10 ай бұрын

The quality of these units is below any quality level at all. Harsh clicky buttons and cheap components, mass produced with little or no QC. Why do we import such tat?

@John_vDongen 8 ай бұрын

Such a great video Vince, It was a pleasure to watch with insight and knowledge. Takes me back when I used too repair Mum's Boot-sale items. She always said, that, it makes good practice for me. Until, I spent nearly an hour repairing a radio to working order. When finished, she said that she nicked it from a stool after an argument with a seller... I felt like tossing it in the bin. I did see the funny side after a time. Sadly we lost her 23yrs ago. Sad, but good times...

@greenaum 10 ай бұрын

That power regulator IC on the DAB radio, didn't have any sort of feedback pin. The extra pin was to put a capacitor across to reduce output noise. Can't think why, it can't be a switcher internally without any sort of coil, or a capacitive voltage multiplier, cos they only work on whole-number multiples of the input. Usually. But whatever, that's what the data sheet said it was for, a 470pf cap to reduce noise. That, the shutdown pin, and the usual 3 for a regulator, and that's your 5 pins. Well done on the fix btw! Nice work.

@TheSkaldenmettrunk 10 ай бұрын

Wow! I love those ebay returns and you got four out of four so far. Really really good.

@kennethdavis4982 10 ай бұрын

Pretty easy fixes, Nice job.

@englishrupe01 10 ай бұрын

Great work, Vince. Very interesting troubleshooting video, thanks.

@309electronics5 10 ай бұрын

The 8002 amplifier chips are realy common they are in almost every (cheap) thing. I bet someone plugged the wrong voltage in the white radio causing the chips to blow up. You are lucky the main processor of the radio (on the little pcb thats soldered onto the main pcb under a sticker) is fine and did not get damaged

@billmmckelvie5188 9 ай бұрын

Glad I watched this video as I have a USB power socket to replace, I hadn't realise the milky white blob was just hot glue holding it in situ!

@tribeoflife1046 8 ай бұрын

Hi mate totally unrelated to the vid, but i had hay fever since i was young, if it's any help. Try avoiding lager and wholemeal wheat based products. ( e.g Brown bread) try avoiding during the summer months, and also put vaseline under the nose and under the eyes (not too near) this will also stop pollen from getting in. I did for a year and didn't suffer once. Hope it helps. Have a great day 👍🏻🙂

@samuraivikingjoe5236 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for all the content..... you are a Legend!!! 😁👍

@techrestoread 10 ай бұрын

Great work I love watching your videos I find them really interesting and learn a thing or two and wanna thank you as well

@awjaaa 10 ай бұрын

Honestly, this could've gone on for 3-4 hours, and I'd still be here. Great video! Liked, Subscribed, Bell'ed, and Commenting for the algorithm. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge and process.

@mikec2111 10 ай бұрын

The screen print on the pcb is just enough for factory assembly but they do not want you to repair….better you buy new.. by example I recently had a car wiper motor stop and knew it was a pcb fault. The manufacturer wanted £800 for a new motor. Way over the manufacturer price. Initially the manufacturer said it was copyright but eventually talking to lesser employees they explained…. If you could fix they would make no more money but if not they can sell you a new motor. As for price they decide what you would pay. Because you must have wipers they push the price as high as they can. The motor costs them £15 so if they charged you £60 they would make a small profit but on a £20,000 car what would you pay to keep it on the road. Even a second hand car you are not going to scrap it for the sake of £800!! If Right to Repair is forced we might eventually get details but until then…..dream on. ☹️☹️

@tgheretford 10 ай бұрын

Which is why they're intent on banishing the right to repair as that prevents them the right to profit. The latest attempt to ban right to repair and modify is a new campaign to ban the repair, modification and replacement of parts by end users "for your own safety" after a series of e-scooter fires in homes in recent times.

@williamharris8367 10 ай бұрын

Even if I had the right to repair something, that does not mean that I have the skills, tools, or inclination to exercise that right myself. Realistically, my options are to retain a professional (sorry, Vince) to fix it or just replace it. I do try to donate my non-working electronics to a charity shop, however, so someone else can ultimately attempt to repair them.

@MadKingRALM 10 ай бұрын

Working in manufacturing, it isnt entirely uncommon for the assembly team to forget to solder something like a speaker wire. Or to have a unit sent for rework, only to be returned afterward to be reassembled without mentioning that something has been cut or removed and needs replacing before reassembly... It's incredibly annoying, but thats what happens sometimes. I've also seen it happen where a new assembler decides not to follow the process on a product that requires a sequenced assembly process, causing parts/wires/components to break. Which is real fun when not following process instructions means scrapping a board with a final product retailing at $10,000+ USD... Also, repinning those micro connectors is a god damn nightmare when you accidentally break the pin.

@theprior46 10 ай бұрын

The words I'm looking for here are Deft and Skill. So enviable to see such confidence and slick work by someone who really knows what they're doing all the time and knows how to do it. And 80% of that skill is diagnosis of what's the source of the problem. I'm really impressed with this.

@CleoKawisha-sy5xt 9 ай бұрын

glub glub glub glub

@jas20per 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the trip down not so good memory lane. I started in the electronic repair business as an apprentice in the 1960s when things that were sold were on the whole repairable, though since then things have gone down hill to the throw it away it is not repairable for most things we have today. I was very glad to hang up my soldering iron put the Avo 8 in a box and put it in the loft though I have kept its long time replacement Fluke in my workshop that does not have any thing to do with electronic repair. I wish you all the very best for the future but on those three radios you looked at I do not think you broke even on time and components.

@shevshep 10 ай бұрын

Love these types of fix it videos

@Mr_Hanky 10 ай бұрын

I have been finding random stuff people had thrown away and repairing them for years, but until I seen your video it never occurred to me to buying them online. 🤔🤔 Brilliant video, gotta love pulling something apart to figure out how it works. 👍👊 Question. Is there any advice you can give about buying these kind of returns boxes? My research came up with a lot of scams, empty boxes etc. Thanks 🤟 looking forward to the next video

@thulinp 7 ай бұрын

Using your amplified speaker (line in) for fault finding is an excellent idea. But to protect it from input shock, add to the end of the cable, in series: a 50n capacitor and a 220k resistor.

@icarossavvides2641 10 ай бұрын

For the DAB, you'll find that the SHDN/ label has a bar on top of it denoting that it shuts the regulator down when low, the other regulator was just labeled EN which denotes that it's enabled when the pin is high which amounts to the same thing.. There's no 'feedback' on these fixed regulators. I suspect that the 100mA output limit of the first regulator wasn't enough causing the output voltage to collapse that's why it didn't work. As mentioned elsewhere, probable reverse polarity of the batteries, as the unit would have come with it's own dedicated power supply, did the blowing up honours!

@mikehibbett3301 Ай бұрын

Great perseverance on the Bush!

@shenidan2023 9 ай бұрын

Many thanks, your videos are always educational and inspiring 👍

@chrissimpson5387 10 ай бұрын

I love the way you fixed one by rubbing a greasy finger across a connection 😂😂

@gordonholmes3856 10 ай бұрын

very interesting ..... jealous of your electics knowledge and ability

@mikeymjh 9 ай бұрын

A really good fault finding video please keep them coming

@oldbatwit5102 10 ай бұрын

Excellent. Perhaps you will next get the two sound bars that I took back to Argus because they didn't work. I wondered why they were on special, special offer. I really like the way you will have a go at fixing just about anything.

@andythomas7931 10 ай бұрын

Well done spotting the ferrite rod AM aerial.

@coolissimo69 10 ай бұрын

I loved these fixes.

@Jammerk40 10 ай бұрын

Nice job on all the repairs!

@user-rd8tp3hx1j 8 ай бұрын

I love the fact that you're able to fix some sort easily. Because I quite like this brand I know they're not very good but they make items of a company's don't

@ErrorMessageNotFound 10 ай бұрын

Nicely done!

@hackerjones5255 Ай бұрын

Hi Vince your videos are good and helpful

@AeiKei 10 ай бұрын

Nice fixes Vince!

@Mogipbob 10 ай бұрын

Could you imagine if you fixed these items while at a remote location outside? Bush Bush fixes :) Great video as always!

@petewatts30 9 ай бұрын

Quite interesting obviously no one would bother to repair these the skills/knowledge involved costs a lot more.

@theoloutlaw 10 ай бұрын

A hundred Thumbs Down? WT? Great as always Vince, I thoroughly enjoyed your repairs!

@martinda7446 10 ай бұрын

Vince, hope you don't mind me saying, but you left your iron on that poor chip for a loong time, try and do it quick as possible, clean the pads first and tin them and pip pip pip its on. This is not a nice experience for these little chaps and they can only survive a few operations like this, and that was a few in my book! Edit PS. Your success rate is remarkable and many of your repairs would tax me and really I can't praise you enough.

@CleoKawisha-sy5xt 9 ай бұрын

nonsense.

@solarbirdyz 10 ай бұрын

That first clock, when you put the dome in where the original had been not responding, you didn't completely seat the dome into its little nibs. This has the effect of making it taller than spec, which points back to the idea that the button above it is a bit short or otherwise mis-formed.

@CleoKawisha-sy5xt 9 ай бұрын

@renatoscutube 10 ай бұрын

Vince, about the radio, OK, you got it and that is the most important. Anyway, I guess there was a more simple way of finding out the regulator voltage. Considering you had the correct code for the sound chip (that you replaced), its datasheet would probably indicate the necessary working voltage.

@andymouse 10 ай бұрын

Exactly ! I won't bother to comment.

@CleoKawisha-sy5xt 9 ай бұрын

^ but you did.

@lbindert 9 ай бұрын

Hello from Tampa Florida! I just surfed onto your channel and enjoyed them (4). I really don't know small electronics but.....I did learn one thing. Don't buy Bush transistor radios 😅. Great videos and I'm subscribed

@batmandestroys1978 10 ай бұрын

Well done Technovince!

@ShokaLion 10 ай бұрын

Those snappy triangular switches can be a real sod to align right. I had one of the 1970s Mastermind games, and the whole keyboard works like that and I took it fully apart before realizing quite how it worked right. There were a few keys non-functional. Getting that back together and working nicely was a nightmare.

@Phiyedough 10 ай бұрын

I have a portable air conditioner with those PCB buttons and it was getting very hard to turn on so now I just switch it off at the socket.