I Paid £80 for ALL the Instant CAMERAS | How many can I FIX?!

I Paid £80 for this joblot of 14 Instant Cameras, for some reason.
In this video, I'm going to be taking a look at 4 of the Polaroid ones. 2 SnapTouch, 1 Snap and 1 Zip!
Let's see how many I can get working!
Hope you enjoy!
Steve
PS. I'm not an expert in repairs at all. I do this for fun, and it may not be the best or safest way to go about repairing broken stuff. I'm pretty good at melting plastic though. Please don't copy me - I'm an idiot.
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[@StezStixFix]

Stupid Joblot of Instant Cameras

[@ThereIsNoGod3506]

Just to say, you make my Saturday nights!!

[@hajpero]

@StezStixFix Let's play a game, shall we? I keep skipping your raps, but if you promise to include me in one, I'll stop😂 Not a patreon or sponsor. Just a YT random 😅 How about that? Is that manure enough? 😂

[@travoltasbiplane1551]

I'm an electrician. My installation tester has decided to die. It went to a repair center who wimped out and said it would need a new mother board from the manufacturer. Do you fancy having a go at it?

[@jefferystone1]

Mother Flippin Pola-Roids

[@MrTimsvids]

Thats interesting....................

[@infin1ty850]

I gotta be honest, as much as I loved watching this video, being named in this week's rap instead of in the HHG scroll made my day. Even for people that aren't fans, this week's was a banger.

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I've been a HHG for a year now and he's never said my name in a video, ever.

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@@iaincowell9747 The fact that I've never said anything to him in a year shows I don't care.

[@pekitivey]

​@@Heymrkexcept.... You do.

[@uh60donjr]

The polaroid zip...amazing. sounded like a 56k modem 18:56

[@Rich77UK]

Alps are a Japanese electronics parts maker. In 2004 i was working for Synaptics in San jose (Synaptics make the majority of touchpads on laptops, a lot of ipods generations etc) we were the pioneers of capacitive touch sensing. Our BIGGEST rival by far was Alps who managed to get resistive sensing good enough to compete. They made some very good stuff.

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[@sambaker3233]

I pulled apart my father's 1970s component system Sony radio tuner and the entire radio dial was made by Alps. Still going strong.

[@iaincowell9747]

Worked with BMW, our onboard computers in some models are made by Alps

[@Ectica]

That last one must have been a stuck shutter, so it couldnt give accurate exposure. Do some more of this, with cameras! Good job 🙂

[@hitsujiyume]

i'm no camera expert but as soon as those photos started printing my first thought was overexposure. whether that was the zink paper being messed up or too much light or the shutter not working properly, i don't know. taking a picture in normal non-filming light would be a good test. also popping in some fresh film from a new pack that hasn't potentially been exposed to light - i have an HP sprocket and i know whenever i replace the film i always feel really nervous about making sure i do it quickly so the zink paper isn't exposed to light and messed up!

[@CandyGramForMongo_]

You are working with batteries without a fire-containment pie tin! Big Clive would not be happy. 😃

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[@Okurka.]

*explosion containment pie-dish

[@kevinh96]

Your first purchase before tackling any more should be a Big Clive Patented Explosion Containment Pie Tin ™

[@user-zh2qe5mg8k]

Office Space had the right idea of how to deal with malfunctioning printers.

[@PredictedCyborg]

The minor panic you had at that white one WORKING when you thought it didn't and it taking and printing out a snap of the bench was class. xD

[@okhouri]

Mate! The standard of sense of humour belongs somewhere much bigger than this channel. I wish you well

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[@hugegamer5988]

You can source the single cells for very little, it’s the battery management board and two cells assembled that winds up costing lots of money.

[@Cablesmith]

The Wallace and grommet was a belting little touch 👏🏼😂

[@electric-toadstool]

Manure videos are the best! This episode was picture perfect ,in focus and very snappy. It went by in a flash.

[@Inugamiz]

Ok that red printer makes me want to own one just for fun.

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[@billyhorn7886]

The Polaroid Zip sounded like a dial up modem

[@tobynmanthorpe]

I think you’d make an awesome “guy at the computer” in a Bond movie.

[@zKaltern]

They are essentially printers. And printers suck to repair. They are machines of devious hate and bile, and I despise them. Whenever I get a client who start with 'I got this printer...' I silently curse them with the Hex of Hate and Suffering. I really hate fixing printers.

[@infin1ty850]

Printers were the absolute bane of my existence when I was starting my IT career and was in tech support. "i don't not like them, Sam I am, I think printers belong in the trash can"

[@StezStixFix]

I feel you! Aside from coffee machines, printers are definitely the worse! 😁

[@samuraidriver4x4]

I like to tear printers apart for components, heatsinks and such. Every once in a while I grab a laser printer from the local recycling centre to recycle it myself😂

[@Ruddigore]

I own lots of mini printers, I use the Polaroid Zip all the time and have printed thousands of photos with it over the years. Even better than the Zip is the newer Polaroid Hi-Print. Same size photos but better resolution and a different printing process (a 4 pass dye sublimation). A great video as always. 👍

[@Accolyte1]

You can update the firmware by getting the latest online and just connecting it to a computer to update.

[@jchapalee]

outcast always makes me smile

[@ray73864]

Alps was also one of the manufacturers of the NES powersupply, along with Mitsumi.

[@Okurka.]

Alps Electric has supplied around 40,000 types of electronic components to over 2,000 manufacturers.

[@piggymito]

I love how you accidentally took a really nice arty picture 🤣

[@michaeljones7183]

Love the song bro. Haters can skip if they don't like it. Keep'em coming

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[@bpaakwaan7325]

What do polar bears get from sitting on the ice ? Polaroids !!! BOOM BOOM

[@Zhixalom]

Waouw... you got the timing just spot on perfect, there; we both said "thingy-sticks?!?" at exactly the same time... almost as if we had rehearsed it. - Stupid thingy-sticks 🧡

[@jonathanwright1507]

When you make a video Stez, you certainly make it snappy.....

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@19:40 📕"The little printer that simply just worked all the time, and other classic fairytales." 📕😆

[@ijabbott63]

08:00 ALPS also used to make the mechanisms for Tandy CGP-115 and various other four colour pen plotters for home computers back in the day.

[@CTCTraining1]

Wow, they have been going a long while. 😀👍

[@patrickcardon1643]

Also manufactured a lot of the early keyswitches for the 8bit machines' keyboards

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@@patrickcardon1643 And floppy drive mechanisms, used in some C1541s.

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@@CTCTraining1 Founded on 1 November 1948.

[@TheNiteNinja19]

That red mini photo printer was the MVP of the show, that thing was actually pretty surprising!

[@zaprodk]

17:40 A lithium cell sitting at 1.8V is /not/ OK. Please don't try to charge it. It will have dendrites inside that can suddenly pierce the seperator, discharging the cell quickly and quite spectacularly ...

[@thadofalltrades]

Haha that sort animation was great

[@imaginitivity7853]

My dad has a whole album of pictures like the one you took of your face. For some reason he always looks at the lense when trying to work out why a camera hasn't worked😂

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Talk about Instant Gratification !!!!! Well done Mate

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[@tsuikagura]

Love the bravery and inquisitive approach, you manage to make it look both easy and hard, meaning... realistic. Great video as always.

[@MacBratt]

I think it's the paper that's the problem with the Polaroid Snap

[@Rukyr99]

Only 121k subscribers? 😳 your rap and music making skills need a broader audience. And so does your DIY-electronics repair antics. Funny and educational. 👍👍

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[@UnCoolDad]

Bit of IPA would have killed the adhesive to pull that sticker out without dismantling.

[@reidster87]

This was quite useful. Both the pink and purple cameras are the 2nd generation Snap Touch (they have the power button between the shutter button and flash.) I have a 1st gen Snap Touch which lacks that button and uses the flash up/down position to turn on and off, but still has the touchscreen. The companion app kept nagging me to update the firmware, which kept failing... until it updated to the incompatible 2nd gen firmware and completely borked the camera. It charges and turns on to a white screen, but fails to proceed or respond. It was handy to see the teardown of these 2nd gen units to see the differences in the PCBs. I may try to tear mine down and manually reflash the appropriate firmware directly to the IC. The image quality from the camera was fair in good lighting, and abysmal any other time. Printing via Bluetooth with my phone like you did with the Zip, the print quality was pretty bad. Seeing the prints you made from the Zip, I wonder if my printer was bad from new, or perhaps I got a bad batch of paper with the camera. (it came bundled with a big pack)

[@BRANDMAW]

Man... I've lost your channel and forgot it's name. Spent a couple of hours yesterday, trying to find this with no success. Today I have headache due to this but trying one last time I remembered that you was fixing 5 old Nintendo cartridges and by this searching request I'm finally here 😭Greetings to Dave

[@coondogtheman]

I may look into one of those mini photo printers. I have the paperang printer which prints black and white on thermal receipt paper but I want color. The little red one you fixed seems to work well.

[@jonbeige9877]

Thumb up for that final print! Well done!

[@TinShackVideos]

Alps makes the high grade decal printers for models.

[@domramsey]

Pretty sure the problem with the last one was that you tried to take a photo of a transparent blue thing on a blue background from a few cm away. These cameras focus at infinity and require quite a lot of light to make a decent photo. Take a photo outside and it will be way better.

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[@HMJ66]

It was overexposed, so too much light was getting to the sensor and washing out the picture. As another commenter has said, it was likely that the shutter was stuck open or malfunctioning somehow and not letting the right amount of light in, and Steve's poking around fixed it.

[@anamilosrdnica]

excellent video keep up the good work

[@TheLastPhoen1x]

Be careful when messing with those batteries, they are known to combust violently if punctured. Was looking a bit sketchy when prying them apart.

[@5tu4rt]

Keep the last picture and use it for your next passport application 🤔 enjoyed this video. Seems like a very expensive way of getting a 'snap shot'

[@RATADATUAVELHA]

19:00 that's a 56K modem right there

[@soycarcare9866]

Gonna love this mate, but need to work, saving this for tonight👍

[@lewisnormand]

Good to get your 2024 Xmas card photo ready well ahead of time.

[@sambaker3233]

Alps are a Japanese manufacturer, they specalise in potentiometers, switches, dials etc. Ive pullled,apart a few 1970s era japanese radios, tuners and even cars that have Alps parts in them.

[@happilyham6769]

Dude, that was a sick beat.

[@lookitskazzy]

Alps is still around! Japanese as many have pointed out. Make all kinds of high quality parts.

[@CooLDEaFY4204Me]

Good job

[@TheSimCaptain]

I don't think these cameras are printing pictures, but developing them instead. The developing chemicals are on the paper cartridges that become the pictures. So there could be something wrong with the paper cartridges. Maybe they are old and the chemicals are past their use by date.

[@wisher21uk]

Brilliant Steve love them like you said the Polaroid Zip is probably the best 😊

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[@LeeBall]

Brilliant video yet again. Keep up the amazing work, the effort you put into these is bordering on ridiculous.

[@icebear6393]

I got to be honest with you watching him take that battery pack apart gave me the heebiejeebies but that's how you can tell who has and hasn't had one of those explode in their hands.

[@lafluerpeter9]

Did that Polaroid zip come with a free Netscape/AOL CD??

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[@hc3d]

Selfie pic made my day

[@KJW648]

Try learning to take picture, taking a picture of dave at close range with low light is not a good idea for camera design to take friends or selfie. Looking forward to more 😅

[@odilopalves]

Excelente vídeo! Nós incentiva a aprender a concertar coisas em casa.

[@acidhelm]

26:00 New pfp? 😆 I think the photos of Dave turned out bad because of the lighting conditions. If you took the photo in another room away from your studio lights, the camera should handle it better.

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Ace video, thanks and boo yaah to you and yours.

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26:10 Looks like Zardoz

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[@Methusalen]

I have one of the Snap cameras & quite enjoy being able to take pics & have them printed… So often these days, we don’t have actual pictures; as they end up staying in your phone until the end of time… Sadly, I lost the magnetic lenscap for it long ago… :(

[@stealthbuilder]

What great fun!

[@captaindb4998]

Awesome, as always, my man. Keep it up 👌

[@jonogrimmer6013]

Love your channel! Maybe you should give away the photos (I want Dave) when you get to 150k subs? :)

[@chanyphilly8266]

Fantastic stuff. Really enjoyed this. Can't wait for the next installment of stupid cameras! 😂

allready love the video... 0:10 Awesome content!

[@technik-3dnerd]

You have an amazing Canal, i send you merry christmas from Germany, an I hope see you sonn next year 2024

[@OzCreationsAU]

Not dirt on lens, these cameras have a horrible min focus distance.... pointing it at desk so close will just produce blury images :)

[@GamerSpencer]

Who's that handsome chap I hear you say 26 minutes in? That's my mate @MrCosine I am sure of it! :)

[@hoffmannolsen]

Now you got a new thumbnail for your channel. 😂😂🎉

[@hoffmannolsen]

When you think about it, small people sees you like this 😱

[@ryandavis7011]

Shake it! Shake it! Shake the drips off!

[@RichHarrisThatBaldGuy]

Love it! Keep it up, man!

[@eelyeel1265]

Hey m8, thanks for the videos. Being doing some repairs and going well so far. Hard part is remembering where the screws go 😂. Do you use a power supply to test things? If so what do you use? Thanks from NZ!!

[@Bennettone]

Dude, what a nice vid.

[@danw3735]

You music is glorious!

[@5c0u53]

For the dodgy battery just buy a similar single cell and solder it in place of the dead cell. If the cell had remained around 2v then i would have just punctured the cell with a cocktail stick and sealed the hole with a dab of hot glue or super glue . Before the usual NASA engineers jump on and start the gobshiteing Ive been making custom LiPo packs for over 20 years for my 2 local RC clubs were we use high draw LiPos for racing drones and long duration packs for FPV cruisers (medium speed planes built for 40--100 mile round trips ) as long as you take care you wont have an issue.

[@craiggilchrist4223]

Alps used to make printers. Not sure if they still do. They look like thermal printers which is why it gets warm.

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[@turji]

Give your silicone mat a rub with tha isopropanol aswell🙂

[@Old-Sole]

Where do you get the thermal imager?

[@ronlevin2339]

There is a curst sense resistor near the chip. it is probably a charging chip or 5v to 9 V ? regulator ??

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[@biotrekker]

On the Polaroid Snap, I think the camera was simply too close to the objects on your desk. It's a shite lens and cannot focus for a "macro" shot.

[@dodgydruid]

Messing with my £4 Xbox One, allegedly didn't work... umm new power supply and well... it works... but I have a Elite controller that has a winkled right joystick so that will be the fix on this :D

[@steve5746]

Great content as usual. These ZINK printers do seem to be cheaply made, throwaway rubbish. I've got a Kodak one that prints with big missing white lines which means straight to the ewaste landfill.

[@scaleartsg]

do you sell any of your stuff you fixed?

[@WelcometoVideoCity]

SO when are you gonna auction off those snap shots?

[@highroyds]

Lmao clicked thumbs up in less than 30 secs just for the ‘oops’ 😂

[@bruceebgood8399]

I always wondered how the analouge stick are called professionally... Now I know... Thingy sticks...😁

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[@jasonpatterson8091]

I wonder if your terrible pictures with the white Polaroid were because you were so close to the subject of the picture and the camera has terrible close focus. When you accidentally selfied and got a decent print it would have been a couple of feet away instead of a few inches.

[@lotusexcelsa]

Stez, you should sign that picture and give it away

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Nice

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[@hmello3250]

very good content

[@bokkenka]

Take the battery out of the white Snap and put it in the pink SnapTouch.

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22:36 Nice photo actually.

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being happy is live in the septic tank.

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Your my favorite…don’t be that. “I’ve got 200 of a thing can I fix them.” guy

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26:04 XD now that made me laugh I will say

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