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. 

Sometimes things don't go to plan.

Recently I had a difficult customer. 

He maybe didn't know about my recent issues with vertigo, or that I'm right now, a full time dad. But I diagnosed his issue (cleaning would not work. The analog had been damaged and had a plastic part stuck under the stick) and offered a solution, despite his prickly attitude or jabs at my ability. 

In the end. He wanted the Fortnite controller to be perfect. So we could swap another controllers innards with this so it would work. 

The first controller wouldn't quite work. Much older board. In my rush to help him, I didn't reseat some ribbons successfully. 

He attempted to provoke me. Instead, I dealt with the issue with a level head. My test PS5 decided to not respond to controllers during this (if this happens. Power out. Leave out for 30 seconds from console btw). 

He underpaid for all the work I put in. No point in losing my cool, or wasting any further energy on him however. 

I don't list everything I do on here. Just things that come with a neat story. Or are slightly out of the ordinary. 

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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