I have FIVE C64 silver label machines here to repair. Three of them are KU boards, then there is this 250407, and the final one is a true silver label rev A 326298. I will be working my way through all of these repairs, starting with this 250407 and working up to the rarest. Three of these boards are suffering from capacitor leakage. Something I have never seen before in a C64. With one looking particularly nasty. But lets not get ahead of ourselves! One fix at a time…

I recently popped over to visit my friend Paul to return a load of repaired machines to him. Whilst there I picked up the next load of broken things to repair! It’s the circle of retro life!

Before I get to the silver labels I need to finish up a few more standard, common or garden C64’s. Here are a couple from a previous triage episode which presented with faulty ROM chips. One has a bad BASIC ROM and the other has a bad Kernal ROM. But one of them was also hiding a sneaky fault elsewhere which I discover after repairing the ROM’s! FUN!

FOUR Commodore 64 Silver Label machines. All broken and in need of repair. And whats especially interesting is there is a fault on THREE of these machines I have never seen before on any other C64! That’s not to say that none of those have had this fault, but that I have just not noticed it!

The next batch of Commodore 64’s needs a first look. And there’s a surprise attached to the C64C.

Its another bunch of old broken machines. This time six ZX Spectrum 48k rubber keys are being triaged. I like to do these initial inspections of all the machines that I repair, just so I can pick out which ones will make good videos. Sometimes there are some real treats inside!

One of my favourite things to do in this retro hobby is unboxing loads of retro “things”.

A slightly different road trip. This time at the Play Expo event in Blackpool. I spent a great day with lots of amazing people, playing lots of arcade games and pinball machines, and chatting with some of the people exhibiting. Including an early look at the upcoming Vectrex Mini. A fun day!

In this episode I work on repairing a Commodore 64 that refused to boot properly. After some troubleshooting the fault is tracked down to a bad BASIC ROM, and I show the steps I took to confirm and fix the issue. Along the way I test out my new oscilloscope, even if the capture didn’t quite go to plan this time.

In this episode I open up a new donation for the channel, including an Oric Atmos. I also take a quick look at some new cleaning tools recommended by Sven and talk about how they might help with future repairs.