Hi I sold you the melted ps5 glad to see it resurrected. I wish I could family home after the fire unfortunately no insurance and lost most butvat least your purchased helped me a little towards my goal of purchasing and rebuilding the home I live in most my live God bless and thank you.
I had a housefire in 2009. my XBOX360 and PS2s somehow BOTH survived the fire completely functional, even though the discs within them were heat damaged to the point they could no longer be read. I've never been willing to disassemble either, but in the 14 years since they've continued to function just fine.
The reason why the disks weren't working anymore is probably that the layers started separating. The disk might look perfectly fine, but it won't work anymore.
You think that liquid damage was caused from them trying to put the fire out? It just makes since but I am surprised how it completely looks after that. Truly amazing and you sir do a awesome job repairing what others say is "unrepairable"
Back in the day I had a nintendo 64 that was damaged in a house fire.I had a friend who knows about electronics open it and aside from the case looking super funky, once we cleaned it up it worked fine for years after
Same here. My house burned in April and let me tell EVERYONE, that smoke a caustic! Almost everything in my house that had exposed metal had rust less than 24 hours after the fire. I have a TON of stuff I put in storage (including my whole video game collection) that I need to clean and test when I have a new place.
@@madmatt2024 even the game in sealed boxesmight be non-readable after a fire just from the heat warping the plastic with no visible damage. I lost most of my PS2 collection in that way.
Thank you for thoughts still trying to recover no insurance and I'm disabled but I keep trying to get a morgage to purchase the family home and rebuild its where I lived most of my life.
Best move to clean the board. I had an incident many years ago where my crt tv has no brightness due to soot from a malfunctioning oil furnace. The soot on the board actually changed the values on some of the components so i took it apart and cleaned the main board. It worked fine after that.
Hi Steve! Could you make some videos teaching newbies basics on soldering? I tried learning from a lot of videos but for some reason i can't grasp it. I feel like you would teach amazingly!
I posted a link yesterday but it got removed. Don’t know why. Search for “TronicsFix Soldering for Complete Beginners” and you’ll find a blog article and a link to a video course Steve made a few years ago.
When I was nine (1997), I got a PS1 for Christmas. A few weeks later we had a house fire and everything was ruined. Firefighters said it was only kind of safe to go in after they put the fire out and my parents decided to get my PS1 and Game Gear out, left the Genesis and NES. The Game Gear was in a travel case so it was clean and functional. The PS1 was covered in soot and clearly got hit with water. It didn't work. The game inside was fine (MK Mythologies: Sub-Zero). Even after all these years I can still smell the smell of house fire on the disc, it's faint now but it's there.
I don't know why, but the background music made me feel like I was watching shenanigans from Pixar's Monsters, Inc. characters. I loved it. And the fact that this PS5 seems to work, still, took me by surprise.
Man if only I knew that sticker companies name, I might've bought some for myself. Too bad they didn't sponsor such an awesome channel like TronicsFix because they might have had another paying customer.
Combustion is an oxidative process. So, any corrosion present on metal after a fire could be either because of the fire itself or because of the water used to put it out.
The smoke is caustic/corrosive. When my house burned in April, literally everything with exposed or poorly plated metal had rust within 24 hours. Even stuff that wasn't exposed to fire or water had rust.
Yeah, you' re right by PSU's ain't something a lot of people mess with. Most of the times they just replace it, as a faulty one can cause A LOT of trouble, from a simple short to a fire.
Cool video as always, but I was pretty surprised you re-used the PSU after seeing smoke and liquid damage on the board, any comment on the decision making process behind that?
18:15 Look at you having a Tim "The Toolman" Taylor moment there! "Real men don't need instructions! Ar, ar, arrr!!!" 🤭 AWESOME! 🤘😎 Oh, and purple is my favourite colour!!! TronicsWife has great taste!
I love videos like this, especially the cleaning is satisfying. Great job. And amazing how easy you put the sticker on the PS5. And probs that you use the shells even the company will not sponsor your videos.
Dang the reveal on that plate was so good, I feel like with how many ps5s you fix, the more of these plates I see installed the more likely Ill be to pick one up! If only this company had a name 🤔🤔🤔
I wonder if he ever figured out that he tried to get the disc to work the first time but it was upside down? Things that make you go hummm... Good vid!!
Would probably be possible to fabricate some of the body parts with 3D printing, but might also be better to just rebuild it in a new custom case, since the core components are still working. Then again if reselling as a refurbished product + it was from a housefire, its probably better to use donor parts and make it as standard as possible. Nonetheless great work as always.
Honestly, the heatsink could have been cleaned and would have been fine, but reusing the PSU, the _one_ component that contains critical electronics you don't clean on the inside, makes no sense to me. It's "open air", so it definitely will have plenty of soot in there. That is the one part I would definitely have swapped, just to be safe, especially because a faulty PSU may work now, but can easily kill the rest of the system in a few days, weeks or months. I really liked the molten center cover, looked pretty awesome, so I would have kept that, if possible.
Another house fire ps5? You had to read my other comment. Lol. Again. I love your channel because you take uniquely damaged tech to repair. Keep it up.
My ps5 died two separate times just trying to do its job of staying on for a few hours to play a game, I couldn’t imagine one of these surviving a fire.
i used to do this to save money. my ps1 was forever without a case tho, i had it zip tied to a piece of cardboard. best part was, jamming the door mechanism, let you swap demo discs and play burned games after the PS logo spun up. no need for a game shark. LOL if you knew the ques in software for hardware, you could quickly swap discs and it would keep running. :D
Yeah house fires are no fun. My house burned down back in the early 2000's. Was able to salvage a bunch of computer parts. Can't believe it still worked after that to be honest. Would love to be able to buy that PS to be honest lol.
That's a interesting way to make a Ps5 slim. Incidentally with the Ps5 slim being so easy to dismantle, perhaps you could repurpose a pc case. Would be nice to see you build a Ps5 into another form.
I was a little surprised you didnt open the power supply out if an abundance of caution considering it was in a house fire. Better safe than sorry since its a part that could cause fire #2
3D print a stand up base to fit the way it is now, ozone the CRAP out of the whole system (to remove the smoke smell), then open it for repairs. Put it back together once repaired and keep it as is as a survivor.
I like how I can't tell if dbrand sponsored you this time or not because they're usually so sassy in their ads. If not I hope they sponsor you in the future! Great work reviving this fire victim!!!
As somebody who repairs electronics, I really used to dislike your videos. Seeing this video has really impressed me and I love how much your content has grown. You have really become the best at repair content. Let me add, I'm not even kidding BW-100 is seriously THE BEST cleaner out there. I use it semi-often for all my electronics liberally.
Hi I sold you the melted ps5 glad to see it resurrected. I wish I could family home after the fire unfortunately no insurance and lost most butvat least your purchased helped me a little towards my goal of purchasing and rebuilding the home I live in most my live God bless and thank you.
I hope everyone who was in that house to be perfectly safe, and may they hopefully recover from that awful accident.
the ps5 is more important than any living person !! (said no one ever, i hope !)
😂
@@MrJamiez What’s so funny?
@@MrJamiez whats so funny, little homie?
lol thats not a video about that its for fix the ps5 bro
I had a housefire in 2009. my XBOX360 and PS2s somehow BOTH survived the fire completely functional, even though the discs within them were heat damaged to the point they could no longer be read.
I've never been willing to disassemble either, but in the 14 years since they've continued to function just fine.
Everything on the motherboard got reflowed, so they were as good as new lol
The reason why the disks weren't working anymore is probably that the layers started separating. The disk might look perfectly fine, but it won't work anymore.
best method to reflow a mobo they will most likely last forever
You think that liquid damage was caused from them trying to put the fire out? It just makes since but I am surprised how it completely looks after that. Truly amazing and you sir do a awesome job repairing what others say is "unrepairable"
Back in the day I had a nintendo 64 that was damaged in a house fire.I had a friend who knows about electronics open it and aside from the case looking super funky, once we cleaned it up it worked fine for years after
Would it be appropriate to say he acquired this PS5 in a fire sale? All prices are hot! 😉
Lol I like puns but yeah I'm the guy who had the fire.
Been through a Housefire Myself, Ill never forget that Smell... I hope that The person and Family who went through this are doing Well...
The smell of burnt plastics is the worst.
Same here. My house burned in April and let me tell EVERYONE, that smoke a caustic! Almost everything in my house that had exposed metal had rust less than 24 hours after the fire. I have a TON of stuff I put in storage (including my whole video game collection) that I need to clean and test when I have a new place.
@@madmatt2024 even the game in sealed boxesmight be non-readable after a fire just from the heat warping the plastic with no visible damage. I lost most of my PS2 collection in that way.
Thank you for thoughts still trying to recover no insurance and I'm disabled but I keep trying to get a morgage to purchase the family home and rebuild its where I lived most of my life.
Restorish to the rescue! You and Robert are amazing! I second the other comment on soldering for newbies.
How dare the company, who must not be named, turned you down for a sponsorship! 😠
Lol
How dare they not do what you want them to do James.
I love the banter over it though. It's pretty on brand for the company - hope they reconsider
Cough...dbrand....cough
Dbrand * Cough and fart noises *
Thanks for pointing me towards Restorish. Never heard of them until now, but it sounds like they are right up my alley for chill tech repair content!
@SilverKnight, Restorish is part of the TronicsFix family.
Didn't expect that to work first try.
It actually looked kinda cool at first. Like an old rustic kind of look.
Its surprising that it still worked after the fire. The new shells looks pretty good
I think its awesome you have a wife who enjoys electronics as much as you like fixing them. It's a match like no other. Thanks for sharing.
Watching it getting cleaned made me sleepy. That was relaxing and satisfying to watch 😂
It just goes to show you. Always try and fix things before you throw them away. Especially something that cost a good bit of money.
its amazing that it even still works after it was melted as always great job
It wasnt that badly damaged to be fair what was wrong was superficial not enough to affect it working
I'm impressed that the console was mostly fine, I would expect all plastics molten - nice job Sony.
We do between 25 and 45 house fire console's / Laptop per year. Ozone machine and a ultrasonic cleaner are absolutely wonderful.
Best move to clean the board. I had an incident many years ago where my crt tv has no brightness due to soot from a malfunctioning oil furnace. The soot on the board actually changed the values on some of the components so i took it apart and cleaned the main board. It worked fine after that.
Gives me vibes of that gameboy that survived a bomb blast and still worked
Hi Steve! Could you make some videos teaching newbies basics on soldering? I tried learning from a lot of videos but for some reason i can't grasp it. I feel like you would teach amazingly!
I'm sure Steve would do a fabulous job but Ben hack has a really solid series on the basics of soldering!
Voultar also had a pretty decent soldering tricks video a little while ago.
I posted a link yesterday but it got removed. Don’t know why. Search for “TronicsFix Soldering for Complete Beginners” and you’ll find a blog article and a link to a video course Steve made a few years ago.
he does do it but it costs money
DBrand, you're missing out. Sponsor this man!!
When I was nine (1997), I got a PS1 for Christmas. A few weeks later we had a house fire and everything was ruined. Firefighters said it was only kind of safe to go in after they put the fire out and my parents decided to get my PS1 and Game Gear out, left the Genesis and NES. The Game Gear was in a travel case so it was clean and functional. The PS1 was covered in soot and clearly got hit with water. It didn't work. The game inside was fine (MK Mythologies: Sub-Zero). Even after all these years I can still smell the smell of house fire on the disc, it's faint now but it's there.
I don't know why, but the background music made me feel like I was watching shenanigans from Pixar's Monsters, Inc. characters.
I loved it.
And the fact that this PS5 seems to work, still, took me by surprise.
A sonic cleaner with BW-100 would be ideal. (As long as you can get BW-100 in bulk)
Man if only I knew that sticker companies name, I might've bought some for myself. Too bad they didn't sponsor such an awesome channel like TronicsFix because they might have had another paying customer.
Very cool. I really dont like the purple design but whoever got this PS5 rescued must be soo happy.
Combustion is an oxidative process. So, any corrosion present on metal after a fire could be either because of the fire itself or because of the water used to put it out.
The smoke is caustic/corrosive. When my house burned in April, literally everything with exposed or poorly plated metal had rust within 24 hours. Even stuff that wasn't exposed to fire or water had rust.
You should have opened the power supply, it probably had soot on the components too.
yeah for sure. That bothers me
Yeah, you' re right by PSU's ain't something a lot of people mess with. Most of the times they just replace it, as a faulty one can cause A LOT of trouble, from a simple short to a fire.
The concert is looking great😅
Cool video as always, but I was pretty surprised you re-used the PSU after seeing smoke and liquid damage on the board, any comment on the decision making process behind that?
Yeah he definitely should have atleast opened it up and inspected it
who says he didnt check? it couldve gotten cut out of the video@@staples4335
Oh that purple ps5 looks amazing!
Random eBay seller selling this: "Works great. Minor cosmetic damage."
I'm impressed that even turns on, it looks pretty well roasted!
Hope the people in the house fire are ok.
Most of them ''cept brother Jed. We don't much talk about him anymore.
Wow this lady just wont to give up. Congrats Steve !
to think a house fire PS5 would donate a motherboard and PSU. Another successful frankenbuild. Good job!
This came out great! Like the aftermarket plates for sure.
18:15 Look at you having a Tim "The Toolman" Taylor moment there! "Real men don't need instructions! Ar, ar, arrr!!!" 🤭 AWESOME! 🤘😎
Oh, and purple is my favourite colour!!! TronicsWife has great taste!
I love videos like this, especially the cleaning is satisfying. Great job. And amazing how easy you put the sticker on the PS5. And probs that you use the shells even the company will not sponsor your videos.
These videos always makes my day
Seeing Robert clean a ps5 motherboard is my therapy.
Dang the reveal on that plate was so good, I feel like with how many ps5s you fix, the more of these plates I see installed the more likely Ill be to pick one up! If only this company had a name 🤔🤔🤔
I wonder if he ever figured out that he tried to get the disc to work the first time but it was upside down? Things that make you go hummm... Good vid!!
What was upside down?
Would probably be possible to fabricate some of the body parts with 3D printing, but might also be better to just rebuild it in a new custom case, since the core components are still working. Then again if reselling as a refurbished product + it was from a housefire, its probably better to use donor parts and make it as standard as possible. Nonetheless great work as always.
When cleaning the board.. the “orange parts” are bare exposed copper. Rub it with some never dull to polish that up.
No you aren't bitter at all...LOL. Great fix and that thing does look pretty sharp...keep up the great videos.
The unnamed brand company shade is strong with this one.
Lol
That Purple is looking good.. my Favorite color 😍
Definitely crisper than the previous fire ps5
Yes, quite a bit crispier! I can't believe it wasn't more broken!
It's just a testament to how they designed it to run at a billion degrees
It still works tho!
Sony learned a lot from the ps4
As easy as putting sticker on Lego. That, sir, made me lol.
Honestly, the heatsink could have been cleaned and would have been fine, but reusing the PSU, the _one_ component that contains critical electronics you don't clean on the inside, makes no sense to me. It's "open air", so it definitely will have plenty of soot in there. That is the one part I would definitely have swapped, just to be safe, especially because a faulty PSU may work now, but can easily kill the rest of the system in a few days, weeks or months.
I really liked the molten center cover, looked pretty awesome, so I would have kept that, if possible.
yup good point
Another house fire ps5? You had to read my other comment. Lol. Again. I love your channel because you take uniquely damaged tech to repair. Keep it up.
Excellent video, Steve!! Really enjoyable and entertaining!!
Mrs. Tronicsfix: “ Steve, Why does my toothbrush smell like smoke?” Steve: “ I have no idea honey.”😬
I thought a custom case with flames would have been a perfect for that thing amazing it works after that
Tip for this kind of dirt on PCB's
WD40! It somehow pulls soot right of the pcb, after that rinse it off or give it a good wipe with IPA
My ps5 died two separate times just trying to do its job of staying on for a few hours to play a game, I couldn’t imagine one of these surviving a fire.
I’m sure DKoldie would say that’s mint condition and ship it out as is.
crasy that it worked after all it went thru. Love it steve keep the work up
8:00 It's like watching "Baumgartner Restoration"
The man, the myth, the Legend
Steve, we both pulled the exact same face when there were signs of power. 😅
I love how Steve used a vanguard game to try. You know, since they are worthless and I paid 5 for mine on Walmart 😅 just to lvl up guns btw back then
i used to do this to save money. my ps1 was forever without a case tho, i had it zip tied to a piece of cardboard.
best part was, jamming the door mechanism, let you swap demo discs and play burned games after the PS logo spun up.
no need for a game shark. LOL if you knew the ques in software for hardware, you could quickly swap discs and it would keep running. :D
That was a Smart Awesome PS5. Awesome Video TronicsFix.🙂
One PS5, extra crispy.
Your thumbnail is top notch!
New subscriber 👋🏻.
Nice job restoring that PS5👏.
Yeah house fires are no fun. My house burned down back in the early 2000's. Was able to salvage a bunch of computer parts. Can't believe it still worked after that to be honest. Would love to be able to buy that PS to be honest lol.
This is the best sony ad.
DBRAND, PLEASE SPONSOR THIS MAN!
I thought that was just normal heat for the PS5 😂
One would certainly think so! 😂
Lol
10:34 I legit thought you unfolded that board
This purple PS5 actually looks kinda dope
Feel this console was ON during the fire and the fan just sucked all the smoke and hot air inside making a mess and melting the plastics
Why didn't Robert use an ultrasonic cleaner with IPA? much more effective and safe as long as no ignition source is around :)
Tron the shirt your wearing in this video is amazing 😂
That's a interesting way to make a Ps5 slim.
Incidentally with the Ps5 slim being so easy to dismantle, perhaps you could repurpose a pc case. Would be nice to see you build a Ps5 into another form.
The cough got me xD thanks, tronic!
Somebody get this man a Dbrand Sponsorship!
Nice job as always
I think you need more lights for your top camera, it seem a little dark to me
Come on, @dbrand! Now you need to sponsor our tronics hero!
I love music from Mafia on background :D 4:27
Glad it works but I was hoping for some melted chip replacement. 😂❤
Amazing work breakdown collaboration and finish! When will it be up for sale?
I would have kept it in the original melted case, with a sticker saying "fully refurbished fireproof PS5".
I was a little surprised you didnt open the power supply out if an abundance of caution considering it was in a house fire. Better safe than sorry since its a part that could cause fire #2
3D print a stand up base to fit the way it is now, ozone the CRAP out of the whole system (to remove the smoke smell), then open it for repairs. Put it back together once repaired and keep it as is as a survivor.
Very nice work.
That was a candidate for the ultrasonic cleaner... :)
please send this to your friend over at Restorish for cleaning Steve!
Nicely done Steve!
Dbrand should definitely have sponsored you. Their loss!
Also thank you to Robert's help also
This reminds me of the Gameboy that survived a bomb.
I like how I can't tell if dbrand sponsored you this time or not because they're usually so sassy in their ads. If not I hope they sponsor you in the future! Great work reviving this fire victim!!!
Lol, they did not but I should still send them an invoice
As somebody who repairs electronics, I really used to dislike your videos. Seeing this video has really impressed me and I love how much your content has grown. You have really become the best at repair content. Let me add, I'm not even kidding BW-100 is seriously THE BEST cleaner out there. I use it semi-often for all my electronics liberally.
Hey love the vids! Would you consider upgrading camera to 4k? We could see all the little details on boards so much better! please!