Rumble shouldn't rattle...

Had a visit from Mike, who works for a kids club here in town. He bought a controller from me, and I got talking with him and he's brought me some he's had issues with. 

This one would cause a lot of noise when the vibration motors we're doing their job. 

Ah. Well. That would do it. It's rattling against it's enclosure. (Note the break). Nothing some UV resin won't fix. 

After reseating everything (remember the battery terminals). Boom. Brand new. I wish Sony and Nintendo made controllers this nice. 

Sometimes there's more under the hood...

Set of joycons on the table today. Customer wanted them to lock properly to the console. 

First off. This is why they'll stop locking. The plastic lock Nintendo uses gets worn away over time. 

I replaced this with metal locks. 

Went to correct his analog while I was in. Did so. Found out his L button had come completely away. 

This is an easy fix. What's not easy is it the R button on the right Joycon has come away... Because it's not just a simple daughter board like the left joycon has. 

Opened the right one again. Saw the switch had crumbled off for the R button. Saw some hope. Each pad still had some silver attached. Soldered a new one on. Did it work? Nope. But everything else looked good. 

Didn't charge the customer for anything other than what they had originally been quoted, but definitely wanted to go that extra mile. 

A Switch-derella story

Long story short. Bought a DIRTY switch for $40. I didn't even test that it was working. I wasn't sticking a charger into this thing until I'd cleaned it. 

Cleaning turned into corrosion removal, and deciding the case was unsalvageable. 

I decided to throw in a spare modchip I had, and order a nice new shell from AliExpress. 

While trying to remove the screen from the digitizer though (scratched to hell. Total mess) I goofed. Removal is always a crapshoot. Not something I'd do to anything but my own devices.... Replacement for a whole screen was only $30. So...

Completed. Modded. Clean and looking good. 

Out of my usual wheelhouse

Recently helped a rather lovely dude named Jeff with 5 sets of Playstation 3D glasses for a 3D display you see every so often. 

I sold him my old 3D display minus glasses a few months back. And he let me know he had a bunch of glasses that needed batteries replacing. 

Well... How hard could it be? 

It was two hours, where the hardest part was safely opening the glasses. My pry tool was ready. I however... Was less than clued up about how these glasses worked. 

Spent more time trying to make them light up... Not realizing there was a tiny "battery on" switch that needed to be on. After figuring out the first pair, those that followed went with few casualties. 

Only Jeff is allowed to bring more of these :p they're truly painful to take apart safely!

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