Silly me has lost the screws for my Famicom probably about 2 moves ago and i have no idea where they would be. Can i use screws that are the same size from the hardware or do i need a specific type of screw?
Yes thats right i've got a few screws loose!!
Edit: Changed the title of the thread since it changed direction pretty quickly
That's what I did with my NES. ;D But I don't have a regular FC. :(
Strangley enough after about 8 years i found them today in a big glomp of bluetac probably to keep them together! I think i will do a raid on the local hardware soon just in case my screws get loose again.
On a side note i opened up my FDS and found some really weird "components" :diskkun:
I have every screw ever used in a Nintendo product available if you want to order a few.
I'm guessing that the strange 'components' in your FDS are things like dead insects, bits o fluff, or loose retainers. :bomb:
Quote from: Xious on November 27, 2011, 03:06:41 am
I have every screw ever used in a Nintendo product available if you want to order a few.
I'm guessing that the strange 'components' in your FDS are things like dead insects, bits o fluff, or loose retainers. :bomb:
I will remember that next time i take something apart and find i'm a few screws short.
The strange "components" weren't quite like i've ever seen before inside a console anyway
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/382905_2560089157961_1126005468_32887329_362309289_n.jpg)
Do you have any stories about what you can find in video tape recorders or DVD players? I'd love to hear some. :bub:
This makes me want to open up my Disk System, too... :mario:
When I opened my NES a few weeks ago to disable the lock out chip I found a Standard Nintendo Maintenance Beetle, although mine was dead. :'(
(http://kiddo.blog.is/img/tncache/500x500/34/kiddo/img/nesmod4.jpg)
Quote from: manuel on November 27, 2011, 05:56:39 pm
Do you have any stories about what you can find in video tape recorders
My brother once stuck Zelda II into our VCR. It took weeks to get it out. :(
I also opened up the expansion port of the NES I bought from a friend & found out it had been repaired.
I think the receipt's still in there.
I had a dead mouse in my computer tower at one stage. That was fun trying to clean up so i just got a new case and sold the old case with the mouse stains.
How can a mouse get in there? :o
I had a hamster in my printer :D Luckily I managed to get him out, but the printer went right to garbage, I stressed so much that I destroyed the printer in the life-saving process... Meh that was long ago, the printer was a "dot matrix" type :D
Quote from: Jedi QuestMaster on November 27, 2011, 08:39:19 pm
My brother once stuck Zelda II into our VCR. It took weeks to get it out. :(
HAHAHA :D
Also I found a dead (http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/2840/220pxporcellioscaber290.th.jpg) in one of my Famicoms :D meh
This should have it's own thread, I used to work at a TV repair shop and found some interesting things inside customer's units, probably more interesting were the times we were short handed so I had to go out on service calls...
Quote from: manuel on November 27, 2011, 05:56:39 pm
Do you have any stories about what you can find in video tape recorders or DVD players? I'd love to hear some. :bub:
This makes me want to open up my Disk System, too... :mario:
In around 33-years of servicing electronic items, here are some of the things that I've found inside, in order of recollection:
- Bits of fluff.
- Loose springs, components (e.g. resistors), etc., including components not from that device.
- Dead insects and arachnids, including an adder with his web
- Board-game pieces.
- Bits of plastic and paper, including notes, and tiny toys.
- Costume jewelry (more's the pity--why can't people leave gold for me?).
- Coins of small worth.
- Insect chrysalis.
- Food and food debris.
- Wrongly-inserted objects (such as diskettes inserted backwards, or in the wrong drive type).
- Ladies underwear (in a VCR!). I did not ask how or why it got there. ...
- Drinking straws.
- Matches, cigarette tips, ashes.
- Bits of wire trimmings.
- Dirt...lots of dirt.
- Leaves from plants / botanical objects.
- Plastic container tops.
- Envelopes.
- Pieces and bits of Styrofoam.
- Screws and fasteners, including those not from the product.
- Shrapnel and glass fragments.
- Stray solder (flecks and whole wire).
- Tools, often small screwdrivers and such.
- Gravel.
- Wood chips.
- Slime, gunk, chewing gum, and other sticky substances.
- Food remains, and isotonic residue.
- hair...lots of hair (part of the fluff category, but on its own level of disgusting-ness).
- Photographs.
- Butter knives and other utensils.
- The unidentifiable and other assorted objects.
It never ends... At the least, I can state that I have yet to find severed human body parts in anything that I've repaired. ... I'm sure that day will arrive. ... :bomb:
Quote from: Xious on November 29, 2011, 04:10:01 am
In around 33-years of servicing electronic items, here are some of the things that I've found inside, in order of recollection:
- Bits of fluff.
- Loose springs, components (e.g. resistors), etc., including components not from that device.
- Dead insects and arachnids, including an adder with his web
- Board-game pieces.
- Bits of plastic and paper, including notes, and tiny toys.
- Costume jewelry (more's the pity--why can't people leave gold for me?).
- Coins of small worth.
- Insect chrysalis.
- Food and food debris.
- Wrongly-inserted objects (such as diskettes inserted backwards, or in the wrong drive type).
- Ladies underwear (in a VCR!). I did not ask how or why it got there. ...
- Drinking straws.
- Matches, cigarette tips, ashes.
- Bits of wire trimmings.
- Dirt...lots of dirt.
- Leaves from plants / botanical objects.
- Plastic container tops.
- Envelopes.
- Pieces and bits of Styrofoam.
- Screws and fasteners, including those not from the product.
- Shrapnel and glass fragments.
- Stray solder (flecks and whole wire).
- Tools, often small screwdrivers and such.
- Gravel.
- Wood chips.
- Slime, gunk, chewing gum, and other sticky substances.
- Food remains, and isotonic residue.
- hair...lots of hair (part of the fluff category, but on its own level of disgusting-ness).
- Photographs.
- Butter knives and other utensils.
- The unidentifiable and other assorted objects.
It never ends... At the least, I can state that I have yet to find severed human body parts in anything that I've repaired. ... I'm sure that day will arrive. ... :bomb:
Almost the same list except underwear and photos ;D
Quote from: Xious on November 29, 2011, 04:10:01 am
In around 33-years of servicing electronic items, here are some of the things that I've found inside, in order of recollection:
*SNIP*
It never ends... At the least, I can state that I have yet to find severed human body parts in anything that I've repaired. ... I'm sure that day will arrive. ... :bomb:
It would be more interesting if you noted what you found in what unit IMO.
I once found a bunch of quarters in a Karaoke machine, I don't know someone must have thought it needed them to function...
VHS porn stuck in broken machines, used to happen all the time, more shocking to me is the fact that people still had VHS and Beta decks repaired...
My co-worker would put whatever tape he found on top of the machine, one time a woman picked up the unit and demanded that my boss showed her the unit did in fact work...my boss took the tape and played it... my boss was freaked out and quickly took out the tape and apologized and asked the guy that worked on the unit why was that on top of the machine, my co-worker replied " it was in the unit when it was dropped off" the woman just stood there for a second- I guess she thought about it and realized it was her husband's video- she paid and took the tape machine and the porn video and left.
Well, I've literally repaired thousands of things, ranging from the size of a mobile to IBM System/360 machines. I didn't exactly keep a detailed record of what came from where, or any photographic accounts.
Getting an X-rated video tape inside a repair happens... You might be shocked how often, when i receive a personal computer (of any kind0 for service, it has X-rated content in plain sight. It used to be BBS-porn, but now it's usually video rips sitting right on the desktop or in a main user directory. Don't people know how to make directories fully invisible and locked?
What's even more off is that I had an on-site system repair once, where the owner sat in the next room watching pornography while I repaired his system. No, I don't want to know what he was doing in there...
I understand the need to service Beta and VHS players, especially the older ones that had exceptional features and high build quality. Not so much on newer models, but anything made before 1989/9, certainly, especially both major varieties of Beta/BetaMax, as they have superb video quality and it's worthwhile to keep them working. Nobody makes high-quality players anymore, so it's critical to keep the old technology working, especially if you have a lot of recorded video. How else do you suppose that old Famicom commercials from 20-years back are archived and available on YouTube? :octorok:
I've also repaired LaserDisc players, CED players, and other audio and video equipment from tube radios and tube televisions to plasma displays and modern hi-fi gear. I recently restored a 1953 RCA television (cherry red) to pristine operating condition, although the owner declined to have me remove scuffs from the unit, insisting that they--even those over the screen--'added character'. I had to rebuild the tuner and repair the video amp circuit, which needed a new amplifier tube. I also replaced a couple other tubes in the video circuitry to improve operation, as they were getting tired.
Anyhow, that's a list of the things that I recall finding. It's extensive, and some are odd or unusual, but others are extremely common. I'd have to say that finding panties shoved into a video deck was the most bizarre; I suspect a child stuffed them in there (as is often the case with solid objects that aren't tools), but who's to say it wasn't..hmm..something less innocent. :bomb:
The next time I sell a game console, I'll make sure to write a message and hide it in the case.
VCRs were the worst since the cassette door flap is like a magnet for little kids and their prying hands.
During my infant years I used to shove all sorts of things down my parents' Betamax machine and whatever I could fit through the cooling vents of the television set (mostly coins, sticks and the like). When my dad took said equipment to the TV repairman he brought me with him and the service guy usually took it apart in front of us and removed most of the extraneous things on the spot so I could clearly see them, maybe they were trying to teach me a lesson but I kept on perfecting my mischief, in fact that Betamax machine decided life wasn't worth living right after I peed on it. :bub:
Quote from: 133MHz on November 29, 2011, 06:04:16 pm
they were trying to teach me a lesson but I kept on perfecting my mischief, in fact that Betamax machine decided life wasn't worth living right after I peed on it. :bub:
Haha, my boss took in a industrial toaster once, I was opening it up when i noticed what I thought was a huge accumulation of lint in one corner, turned out it was a dead mouse, I promptly closed it back up and told my boss, he called the customer and they actually wanted us to remove it and repair it anyway, we declined, I made it a point never to eat at the restaurant that toaster came from, their business card was attached to the invoice, I remember they sent some girl to pick up the toaster with a mouse inside, I remember she was hugging the giant toaster on the way out...lol.
found a bunch of dead hornets in a Sega genesis system once.
Oh man...I had a friend that used to repair old TI computers (TI-99, etc.) Someone brought a non-working one in one time...turned out to have a whole PB&J sammich in it!