'I should be about 10 stone, oh'. Best MMV line ever. Get it on a t-shirt. I know the camera adds 10lbs, but how many cameras were actually on you Vince? 🤣🤣🤣
You're barking up the wrong tree completely. What will control this is regulation not appeals to morals. The only thing they care about is making money: nothing else matters.
Oh man. Yet another project that makes you wonder how many perfectly usable products are thrown away when all that was wrong was a broken wire. Growing incentive to learn these skills!
Hey Vince,nice easy and quick fix. Best way to open this things is injecting IPA to between glass and tape with syringe. And you can use the same tape after IPA evaporate.
Vince I once tried to repair an old bathroom scales (one of the type that had springs and a dial that turned) told the wife 'no need to buy a new scales, I'll fix these' (how hard could it be?) Once i took the last screw out and opened it up a shower of springs and loose bits fell out! I hadn't a faintest clue what went where! It didn't help that the wife was, lets say 'less than confident in my repairing skills' in fact she was doing 'the dying fly' impersonation at this point. With what little dignity i could muster i gathered it all up,and put it straight into the bin. Cheers Chris
Nice fix, was going to mention the black paint but I see you'd already thought of that :) I had a glass hob cover that got erm "accidentally" burnt and cleaned the damaged bits off then painted. You'd never notice it now :)
Ah I used to weigh around that, but since I'm often sat on my arse watching My Mate Vince videos my scales now read "ERR", aint no "Tea Break Fix" gonna fix that, thanks for that Vince! ;)
My Mate Vince the Swiss Army knife of the fixers. Love your channel to bad you are across the pond or you would be receiving lots of interesting devices to give a go. Keep up the great work
Hi Vince, yet another Vince here, great little fix. A man after my own heart, have to find out why things that should work -Don't. I have a similar problem which brought me here. My electronic scales will weigh up to 39k, and then say's error. Can't work it out though!
Re comments about just soldering wire direct onto battery terminal…Sometimes the obvious does not jump out at the time. Like when I was fixing a broadcast television monitor at the BBC and the picture frame trigger pulse was generated by each line pulse charging up a capacitor and I was measuring the back of the board on the capacitor and noticing it was not charging. Getting frustrated I popped down to the tea bar and came back to see a fully working monitor and two smug colleagues. Turns out the capacitor I was measuring across had fallen off the circuit board and fix was to put it back on board.
Hello Vince, I felt it when you spoke about the liking of fixing things but loathing the editing and subsequently lacking the energy, it's a big reason 90% of my content is just live-stream. Can tell your mind was being a bit distracted too given that you ended up joining the two pieces of wire rather than just running the remaining wire to the battery point which you'd normally have done. Good luck finding some inspirating to tackle the editing later, send some over here if you end up with any spare. Thanks for the insight in to how to separate these units, no doubt some people out there will actually need that information one day, often just knowing how it should be done can change things from impossible to "Hey, I can do this!"
Cheers Paul, I've turned to fixing up the numerous things in my house that need doing in the hope that after that I will gladly do editing🤣 Yes, I can't believe I missed just connecting up the wire rather than joining it. Rookie mistake👍👍👍
@@Mymatevince we all have moments like that. There's one where I was working on a PC and I did things the very difficult way rather than simply removing the back panel of the case :head bang: ... 35 years of building PCs and I make a SNAFU like that :more head bang: needless to say I was called out on it in the comments. I expect your house will be perfectly functioning before that editing starts again ;) Helps a lot I imagine if you have a fast editing machine, so you don't sit there fighting against the lag of cutting/removing/encoding.
I actually enjoy the video editing side, s'pose its in the blood with me mum being a newspaper, radio and telly journalist before she became a screenwriter. Waiting on a very rare part for my 1980's Pulsar solar, I mistyped the Seiko number and in the search the actual part number showed up on Cousin's but when I typed in the proper number it came back "No results" O.o I actually gave the world a MMV shout of joy when it all went thru :D Turning my daughters bedroom into a proper studio/workshop too so my videos will look millions times more pro :D
Hi Vince, another Vince here, love your videos, sometimes they crack me up as I am a professional Electronic equipment designer. The fault on the scales was obvious enough but you worked far too hard on the fix. there was more than enough wire to simply remove the red wire on the battery tag and solder the other wire on directly to the battery tag. That said it worked and that's all that matters, keep on making these videos.
Hi Vince loved the video as always. Was thinking you could do a challenge were you only use basic equipment like the phone screwdrivers and plastic wedges to do a fix. Would be fun to show people it can be done without the pro tools. Obviously multi meter is also allowed. Thanks again for the great video.
Nice one but i think it would have been easy to just remove the short cable soldered to the terminal and then solder the longer part directly to the battery terminal.
I got a Kitchenaid kitchen food scale that is about 50% smaller than this. The display would not turn on. But put in batteries and it would go on, but then not turn off. No screws or clips, must be tape like yours. Luckily it could be returned so there may be one available cheap. The circuit board is on the other side with the display. Just a few parts and a blob of black coating a chip for the calculation and display. not much to fix if that was broken.
I love the new theme tune. Not so much how ridiculously difficult they make it to get into anything these days. Using adhesive for something like this makes it much harder to repair. You're average Joe would probably end up damaging either the case or worse the glass trying to get into it especially if their pry tool is a flat head screwdriver.
Super J.O.B M.M.V. (that snapped, glued, and stuck "assembly M.O." DRIVES ME CRAzY, and not in a good way... I don't know how you do it. I would keep a hammer near me to get my revenge if it doesn't place nice. It's how most of my old cell phones gets their come'up-ins). Cheers "Healer of Ferrari Cell Phones".
You as a (former?) telecom guy should know about 3Ms scotchlocks. They would have saved you some time reconnecting that wire. No need to solder them together like you did!
'I should be about 10 stone, oh'. Best MMV line ever. Get it on a t-shirt. I know the camera adds 10lbs, but how many cameras were actually on you Vince? 🤣🤣🤣
1st 3lbs of clothes....what they made of lead?! 🤣🤣
@@marktasker9581 He's got a lot of loose change in his pocket. LOL
"That's because I'm dressed" he says holding a steadycam rig
Manufacturers need to consider cost to repair. Too often this is tossed into the bin and replaced. Keep up the good work
They want things to be difficult or impossible to repair. If you manage to repair something, that's a potential new sale lost to them.
You're barking up the wrong tree completely. What will control this is regulation not appeals to morals. The only thing they care about is making money: nothing else matters.
They do, they want you to junk stuff, so that you keep buying more.
Oh man. Yet another project that makes you wonder how many perfectly usable products are thrown away when all that was wrong was a broken wire. Growing incentive to learn these skills!
Salter are a name with a great reputation from the old grocery shop days.
The absolute state of this thing.
Living in past glories.
Hey Vince,nice easy and quick fix. Best way to open this things is injecting IPA to between glass and tape with syringe. And you can use the same tape after IPA evaporate.
Vince a quick fix for the Sharpie is to open it up an add a few drops of Isopropanol alcohol to the stick inside. Gives it bit more life
Nice touch adding the Ukrainian currency. Shows them support!
Vince
I once tried to repair an old bathroom scales (one of the type that had springs and a dial that turned) told the wife 'no need to buy a new scales, I'll fix these' (how hard could it be?)
Once i took the last screw out and opened it up a shower of springs and loose bits fell out!
I hadn't a faintest clue what went where!
It didn't help that the wife was, lets say 'less than confident in my repairing skills' in fact she was doing 'the dying fly' impersonation at this point.
With what little dignity i could muster i gathered it all up,and put it straight into the bin.
Cheers Chris
Great fix, Vince. I do hope manufacturers who design difficult-to-open clip housings like this burn in hell.
Love your videos mate. Don't stop making them!!
Nice fix, was going to mention the black paint but I see you'd already thought of that :) I had a glass hob cover that got erm "accidentally" burnt and cleaned the damaged bits off then painted. You'd never notice it now :)
Ah I used to weigh around that, but since I'm often sat on my arse watching My Mate Vince videos my scales now read "ERR", aint no "Tea Break Fix" gonna fix that, thanks for that Vince! ;)
My Mate Vince the Swiss Army knife of the fixers. Love your channel to bad you are across the pond or you would be receiving lots of interesting devices to give a go. Keep up the great work
Great video as always. I let the video roll after you said goodbye and heard the outro music for the first time. Genius! LOL
Hi Vince, yet another Vince here, great little fix. A man after my own heart, have to find out why things that should work -Don't. I have a similar problem which brought me here. My electronic scales will weigh up to 39k, and then say's error. Can't work it out though!
The scales moment brought back memories of the time Vince fixed a blood pressure monitor and used it himself…
🤣🤣👍
The extra stone is the camera. 😉
Hahaha, I was thinking that!!!! 😂😂👍
love that ending tune suits the channel Vince mate
Hello from Kyiv. thanks for the video. I look with pleasure.
Excellent work as it’s not easy getting these things open to repair.
Re comments about just soldering wire direct onto battery terminal…Sometimes the obvious does not jump out at the time. Like when I was fixing a broadcast television monitor at the BBC and the picture frame trigger pulse was generated by each line pulse charging up a capacitor and I was measuring the back of the board on the capacitor and noticing it was not charging. Getting frustrated I popped down to the tea bar and came back to see a fully working monitor and two smug colleagues. Turns out the capacitor I was measuring across had fallen off the circuit board and fix was to put it back on board.
I dont see how the direct to battery terminal method would make his life any easier either tbh
@@yardgrid There was plenty of slack to solder direct onto battery terminal rather than doing a join
Hi Vince I bought a set of talking scales a few months ago and when I stood on them it said one at a time please 🤣🤣
1st class video to watch thank you take care kind regards from me kenneth
Hey Vince great video love them as always. Oh bye the way I borrowed all the Z's and H's since you were not using them. Cheers!
@Phil.i. Am
Buddy thats my line the last time the Doc said "just jump on the scales" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Another interesting tea break Vince 👍🏻
16:15 that second digit looks like it has a couple of extra segments lit. Time to take it apart again.
Imagine the added insult, when you step on your new scale and the number keeps going up until the scale gives up and never turns on again
Those are cool scales. You should download the Salter MiBody app and play around with it. That's one of their Bluetooth scales.
Hi Vince, love your videos!
Hello Vince, I felt it when you spoke about the liking of fixing things but loathing the editing and subsequently lacking the energy, it's a big reason 90% of my content is just live-stream.
Can tell your mind was being a bit distracted too given that you ended up joining the two pieces of wire rather than just running the remaining wire to the battery point which you'd normally have done.
Good luck finding some inspirating to tackle the editing later, send some over here if you end up with any spare. Thanks for the insight in to how to separate these units, no doubt some people out there will actually need that information one day, often just knowing how it should be done can change things from impossible to "Hey, I can do this!"
Cheers Paul, I've turned to fixing up the numerous things in my house that need doing in the hope that after that I will gladly do editing🤣 Yes, I can't believe I missed just connecting up the wire rather than joining it. Rookie mistake👍👍👍
@@Mymatevince we all have moments like that. There's one where I was working on a PC and I did things the very difficult way rather than simply removing the back panel of the case :head bang: ... 35 years of building PCs and I make a SNAFU like that :more head bang: needless to say I was called out on it in the comments.
I expect your house will be perfectly functioning before that editing starts again ;) Helps a lot I imagine if you have a fast editing machine, so you don't sit there fighting against the lag of cutting/removing/encoding.
I actually enjoy the video editing side, s'pose its in the blood with me mum being a newspaper, radio and telly journalist before she became a screenwriter. Waiting on a very rare part for my 1980's Pulsar solar, I mistyped the Seiko number and in the search the actual part number showed up on Cousin's but when I typed in the proper number it came back "No results" O.o I actually gave the world a MMV shout of joy when it all went thru :D Turning my daughters bedroom into a proper studio/workshop too so my videos will look millions times more pro :D
A great Salter fix!
😀 Lovely T-Break fix =D
Nice fix for the day
Loving your video Vincent funny watching you struggle trying to open it? It should have been called trying to open video lol 🤣
777k subscribers! close to a million !
big or small i always enjoy thease videos!
Hi Vince, another Vince here, love your videos, sometimes they crack me up as I am a professional Electronic equipment designer. The fault on the scales was obvious enough but you worked far too hard on the fix. there was more than enough wire to simply remove the red wire on the battery tag and solder the other wire on directly to the battery tag. That said it worked and that's all that matters, keep on making these videos.
Omg you've gained 1.3 stone!! Happens to the best of us.
On a scale of 1 - 10, this weighed in around 9. Heavy content. A kilo of fun for sure. Worth 2 pounds.
"Its because i got clothes on" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 ofcourse Vince. Its always the clother and the Bones 🤣🤣🤣
Great video Vince. I would have put velcro to put it back together. (If there is enough space that is).
Cheers! 😎🇬🇧👍
Hi Vince loved the video as always. Was thinking you could do a challenge were you only use basic equipment like the phone screwdrivers and plastic wedges to do a fix. Would be fun to show people it can be done without the pro tools. Obviously multi meter is also allowed. Thanks again for the great video.
I stand by my use of actual guitar picks vs a "pry tool". They're available in amazing varieties of thickness and materials (even metal) for cheap.
Thank you! I wanted to see if my new same model scales were supposed to flash twice after displaying weight. Yours do so it must be normal :-)
That satisfying sound at 8:45 :)
Nice one but i think it would have been easy to just remove the short cable soldered to the terminal and then solder the longer part directly to the battery terminal.
lol I was thinking the exact same thing :)
I paused it before you said what the issue was and took me 10 minutes to see it 😄
I got a Kitchenaid kitchen food scale that is about 50% smaller than this. The display would not turn on. But put in batteries and it would go on, but then not turn off. No screws or clips, must be tape like yours. Luckily it could be returned so there may be one available cheap.
The circuit board is on the other side with the display. Just a few parts and a blob of black coating a chip for the calculation and display. not much to fix if that was broken.
Very nice, thanks!!
I love the new theme tune. Not so much how ridiculously difficult they make it to get into anything these days. Using adhesive for something like this makes it much harder to repair. You're average Joe would probably end up damaging either the case or worse the glass trying to get into it especially if their pry tool is a flat head screwdriver.
Nice fix. I like a bit of editing, but sometimes it takes way too long. Btw, the tea break fixes are my faves.
i had to rewind back at the beginning when the tape flew out of the box, i thought it was a mouse or a spider lol
good job mate.
Weird subject but another great video!
Love your films Vince. When the scales were apart it looks like there’s a Bluetooth logo to the right of the numbers. Maybe there’s an app?
another perfect fix
What works really well in these cases (plastic case disassembly) are old credit cards, or what I use, old Starbucks gift cards.
love these videos. cheers vince
I have never heard of the measurement "stone".. but nice tea break fix.
14 lb in a stone.
26oz in a lb (pound)
@@yardgrid Thanks. Here in switzerland we measure in grams.
@@yardgrid Typo! 16 oz = 1 lb
Would be curious to know what happens to the items you fix.. Ebay or Friends and family? or similar.
"Thats 'cos I've got clothes on!!" lol.
Hahahah love the excuse with the clothes on for all the pies and beers 😉😉🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I should be about 10st... Not 10st haha. Just the clothes, camera and all the Nintendo switch spares in your pocket 😂 nice video mate.
Why waste that heat shrink tube?? You could solder that wire directly onto the battery terminal
Yeah they always say, cameras make you look heavier!🤣🤣
I noticed there's a Bluetooth icon on the display, maybe there's an app to keep track of your weight.
we have the same bathroom floor 40 quid at b and m
Fancy original packaging too
16:03 hahahaha then came the explanation.
"ok"
Vince is worth as much as 11.3 stones.
The outro hits different
Super J.O.B M.M.V. (that snapped, glued, and stuck "assembly M.O." DRIVES ME CRAzY, and not in a good way... I don't know how you do it. I would keep a hammer near me to get my revenge if it doesn't place nice. It's how most of my old cell phones gets their come'up-ins). Cheers "Healer of Ferrari Cell Phones".
Yes I understand my clothes weigh 4 stone, especially with all those screws and fixings in my pockets
At least you knew no one has been in there before you.
Can you please do the cpu preasure thing on the switch which had an bsod whet it is in docked mode?
I wonder if factories use leftover glue traps for rats as adhesive for electronics?
You as a (former?) telecom guy should know about 3Ms scotchlocks. They would have saved you some time reconnecting that wire. No need to solder them together like you did!
This is a joke, right?
@@yardgrid Nope
The scale also has Bluetooth connectivity.
@Ellis The DJ I believe that you may be correct. Good research!
Conversion to Ukrainian currency is gold Vince
"That's because I have clothes on." ahahah
You need to use that tune on every video
have you looked into paying someone to edit? ur style is very simple.
I saw what was wrong immediately 😁
Those must be some pretty big stones.
why didnt you just solder the wire straight onto the terminal
Haha, nice. Worked once and broke afterwards. Buy a new one 😅
I think these scales are Bluetooth also, you can track your weight on an app…10st? Yer right lol.
i live in the UK
great fix a snapped wire lol :)
The last time I was 11 stone was when I was about 13 years old.
A perfect example of big tech spending too much time finding ways to *stop* repair.
Looks like was pleanty of slack on the wire so could of gone stright to the batt tearm mate
I like way vince thinks taking his cloths of he’s going to lose a stone and a half.keep dreaming vince lol
Who packed that, Stevie Wonder !!!!!
half the video was him trying to take it apart haha
"Stones" ok welcome to the middle age haha.
First off I thought it was the weight sensor but now realize the scale didn’t get power
For some reason if i shower cold in the mornin i have more energy throughout the day.
Did I see blue tooth logo on the display?
The camera adds a stone. ;)