Awesome teardown video!! When I finally get an SX64, this will be invaluable. Also wanted to mention that the video itself with transitions, etc. looked great! Thank you!!!
Excellent video and throural instructions for disassembling:) I've seen a few repair videos, but nothing to this depth. I'd be so nervous, I'd be making notes and marking every connector. 😆. These sx64s are indeed sexy. Can't wait for part 2. Enjoy your weekend. Cheers
What a great video. This is going to make a great reference go to. Thanks for doing this. I eventually hope to get a SX-64 one day. That an an Amiga 1000 are pretty much on my long term wish list.
Nice Video. There is a chassis version though, where the drive mount is a little different and not screwed in from atop. On those versions, you need to remove the CRT to be able to remove the drive mount or the drive itself, as it screws in from the sides.
Thanks InsaneDruid! Alex from Reviving Retro also emailed me a picture . I am going to check the 2 SX-64s from the Stone Collection to see if any are that style and include it in the next video when I get back from a family reunion I am at right now. If none are that style I will have to see if I can get some good angles of the drive removal process somewhere.
Hoping yours has Floppy Drive problems when it starts, cause the one I bought had PLA problem. I fixed that, but haven't torn into the floppy drive to see if I can fix it. I've been debating Jiffy Dos in all of my 1541s... anybody got experiences to say yes or no. Back in the day, I cut the 2 sets of jumpers that set the drive number and put a couple of red flip switches on the drives so I could do backups. I want to do that again to all of my 1541s. It worked great. I know you can use software to do it, but I liked the physical and also was fufilled that I could change my environment to suit my needs. Got married had kids, had no room and gave my stuff to my brother in law 20 plus years ago. Kids raised, I went back and got all my toys from craigslist, ebay, and facebook marketplace. Hoping I live to be a 100 to keep on enjoying my childhood. I don't never wanna grow up.
Doh, UA-cam ate my reply so here's a synopsis... Jiffy Dos - This has become non-optional for me. The speed is nice but the ease of use is invaluable. I love the puzzle solving of a repair so I am good with issues. I have plenty of PLAs due to a friend making new ones from NoS S100 chips which are more reliable than the CBM ones. I do constantly find myself short on 6526 CIAs and VIC-IIs though. I always had to sell my old gear to afford the new stuff so I too had to start finding the replacements online. The Stone collection kinda blew that out of the water for 8-bit stuff and the KPTV Amigas fixed me up for the Amiga. The only thing I really need to revisit one day - but not too soon - is the Apple II and SOL-20
@@RavenWolfRetroTech Never could afford the Apple II back in the day. That however is what I trained on in High School.. Apple II Plus, and Apple II E. I finally scooped up an Apple II with a working Orangish screen color for the text. The ones above had the greenish tint. I also had a couple Floppy Disk boxes of Software shipped separately from of all places an actual shipping port with boats. The USPS promptly lost the software never to be found, but to my surprise the Apple II loaded it's home screen and after turning knobs on the monitor to brighten the text I found the computer and monitor worked. I still have my programs disks from class in 1985. I had written a 3D rotation of a stick figure pyramid back then. I was so proud. I think I finally picked up the DOS software for the 5 1/4 floppy drive. I got so excited I forgot the mention that I got maybe 2 drives if I'm remembering right.
Very interessting. Please notice how the state of the capacitors are, around the PCB's :-) I am looking forward for your next video in anticipation, and keep up the good work. BTW, do you have a SX-64 with PAL?
Thank you for the video! I need to just clean the back of the crt glass. Is the front panel easily removed without removing other components (are the screws accessible)?
I will show it in the next video which I am working on as we speak. I was hoping for Sunday but the CRT has a leaky cap so I am going to have to add in a recap. Once the CRT is removed from the case there are 3 clips that can be removed which will free the front glass!
Great! Yeah, I am hoping that all I need to do is to take off the top and bottom covers, then I can remove the front panel, then the glass of the crt without disturbing anything else. But at some point, sounds like I should also probably inspect for leaky caps too, sigh.
Once the top cover is off its just 4 screws and a few connectors. Then the CRT just lifts out, no need to remove the front or bottom covers IIRC. As for the caps I was really surprised to find one leaking as the caps from this era are pretty reliable. You may find that you are just fine.
Do you still have many books and software from your 2022 haul to list and sell. If the books are ones I don't have and have a little mold but possibly salvageable by a person with free time, I might be interested.
I was in the process of organizing all the Stone Collection materials when I was interrupted by allergies, followed by a family reunion. I I will be back on it this month and have been putting the extreme items aside.
@@RavenWolfRetroTech I found a guy in Poland a while back that had a rig he sold you could plug into the USB port on your laptop, run the software and burn disk images to a 1541 5 1/4 floppy. I have some of the SD emulator stuff, but I prefer to use the 1541 with a fastload cartridge so I can save my data. A lot of the emulator and games make it very hard to play with multiple disks or saves.
@@jamesmaddox40 I used a ZoomFloppy to recover my DDM files on the PC so I could run it in VICE a few years ago. It was pretty funny using a 170k serial floppy on a modern PC.
@@RavenWolfRetroTech Awesome floppy note. My son in law bought me some 8 in h floppies at a yard sale new in the boxes. I don't even own an 8 inch floppy drive yet, but you know I'm gonna buy one just because he did it. I'll have to pick up a PC too cause you know they match. Lol
Where are you located? I can add one of the feet to my store if you are in the areas I can ship to. You can PM me if you like. Once I hear from you I'll delete this comment to avoid too many parts requests
It looks like the email got messed up on that when my domain was moved. I am not getting test messages from the contact page either, sigh... In the meantime go to the about page on youtube and you can find my email there. its on the channel page then click more at the description....
At todays prices for sure, at the time they were a lot more reasonable in this area... albeit without the extra "Parts Machine" which I really want to find a way to restore!
I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome teardown video!! When I finally get an SX64, this will be invaluable. Also wanted to mention that the video itself with transitions, etc. looked great! Thank you!!!
Thanks Frank!
Excellent video and throural instructions for disassembling:) I've seen a few repair videos, but nothing to this depth. I'd be so nervous, I'd be making notes and marking every connector. 😆. These sx64s are indeed sexy. Can't wait for part 2. Enjoy your weekend. Cheers
Thanks Donald!
great video, thanks for all you do for the community
Thanks!
Cool! Sx 64 rocks
Hopefully my SX-64 won't need servicing for a while, but it's good to know this video will be there to help when the time comes. Excellent work!
Thanks Mr. Cake 😎
This is a good video. I watched it in Spain. Keep them coming!
Lol, thanks Bro!
What a great video. This is going to make a great reference go to. Thanks for doing this. I eventually hope to get a SX-64 one day. That an an Amiga 1000 are pretty much on my long term wish list.
Thanks RacerX! Keep an eye out and I bet they find their way to you.
Nice Video. There is a chassis version though, where the drive mount is a little different and not screwed in from atop. On those versions, you need to remove the CRT to be able to remove the drive mount or the drive itself, as it screws in from the sides.
Thanks InsaneDruid! Alex from Reviving Retro also emailed me a picture . I am going to check the 2 SX-64s from the Stone Collection to see if any are that style and include it in the next video when I get back from a family reunion I am at right now. If none are that style I will have to see if I can get some good angles of the drive removal process somewhere.
Really good video - thanks!
Thank You Bruce! Just Bruce!
Hoping yours has Floppy Drive problems when it starts, cause the one I bought had PLA problem. I fixed that, but haven't torn into the floppy drive to see if I can fix it. I've been debating Jiffy Dos in all of my 1541s... anybody got experiences to say yes or no. Back in the day, I cut the 2 sets of jumpers that set the drive number and put a couple of red flip switches on the drives so I could do backups. I want to do that again to all of my 1541s. It worked great. I know you can use software to do it, but I liked the physical and also was fufilled that I could change my environment to suit my needs. Got married had kids, had no room and gave my stuff to my brother in law 20 plus years ago. Kids raised, I went back and got all my toys from craigslist, ebay, and facebook marketplace. Hoping I live to be a 100 to keep on enjoying my childhood. I don't never wanna grow up.
Doh, UA-cam ate my reply so here's a synopsis...
Jiffy Dos - This has become non-optional for me. The speed is nice but the ease of use is invaluable.
I love the puzzle solving of a repair so I am good with issues. I have plenty of PLAs due to a friend making new ones from NoS S100 chips which are more reliable than the CBM ones. I do constantly find myself short on 6526 CIAs and VIC-IIs though.
I always had to sell my old gear to afford the new stuff so I too had to start finding the replacements online. The Stone collection kinda blew that out of the water for 8-bit stuff and the KPTV Amigas fixed me up for the Amiga. The only thing I really need to revisit one day - but not too soon - is the Apple II and SOL-20
@@RavenWolfRetroTech Never could afford the Apple II back in the day. That however is what I trained on in High School.. Apple II Plus, and Apple II E. I finally scooped up an Apple II with a working Orangish screen color for the text. The ones above had the greenish tint. I also had a couple Floppy Disk boxes of Software shipped separately from of all places an actual shipping port with boats. The USPS promptly lost the software never to be found, but to my surprise the Apple II loaded it's home screen and after turning knobs on the monitor to brighten the text I found the computer and monitor worked. I still have my programs disks from class in 1985. I had written a 3D rotation of a stick figure pyramid back then. I was so proud. I think I finally picked up the DOS software for the 5 1/4 floppy drive. I got so excited I forgot the mention that I got maybe 2 drives if I'm remembering right.
Very interessting. Please notice how the state of the capacitors are, around the PCB's :-) I am looking forward for your next video in anticipation, and keep up the good work. BTW, do you have a SX-64 with PAL?
I will check the caps in the next video but, based on what I saw, I expect that they are fine. I'm in Oregon so my machines are all NTSC.
Thank you for the video! I need to just clean the back of the crt glass. Is the front panel easily removed without removing other components (are the screws accessible)?
I will show it in the next video which I am working on as we speak. I was hoping for Sunday but the CRT has a leaky cap so I am going to have to add in a recap.
Once the CRT is removed from the case there are 3 clips that can be removed which will free the front glass!
Great! Yeah, I am hoping that all I need to do is to take off the top and bottom covers, then I can remove the front panel, then the glass of the crt without disturbing anything else. But at some point, sounds like I should also probably inspect for leaky caps too, sigh.
Once the top cover is off its just 4 screws and a few connectors. Then the CRT just lifts out, no need to remove the front or bottom covers IIRC.
As for the caps I was really surprised to find one leaking as the caps from this era are pretty reliable. You may find that you are just fine.
Do you still have many books and software from your 2022 haul to list and sell. If the books are ones I don't have and have a little mold but possibly salvageable by a person with free time, I might be interested.
I was in the process of organizing all the Stone Collection materials when I was interrupted by allergies, followed by a family reunion. I I
will be back on it this month and have been putting the extreme items aside.
@@RavenWolfRetroTech I found a guy in Poland a while back that had a rig he sold you could plug into the USB port on your laptop, run the software and burn disk images to a 1541 5 1/4 floppy. I have some of the SD emulator stuff, but I prefer to use the 1541 with a fastload cartridge so I can save my data. A lot of the emulator and games make it very hard to play with multiple disks or saves.
@@jamesmaddox40 I used a ZoomFloppy to recover my DDM files on the PC so I could run it in VICE a few years ago. It was pretty funny using a 170k serial floppy on a modern PC.
@@RavenWolfRetroTech Awesome floppy note. My son in law bought me some 8 in h floppies at a yard sale new in the boxes. I don't even own an 8 inch floppy drive yet, but you know I'm gonna buy one just because he did it. I'll have to pick up a PC too cause you know they match. Lol
man, how's your back? My dual 8" drive weighs in at over 60 lbs!
@RavenwolfTech Hello i get commodore sx today any chance you have some spare housing parts for sale ?
Sadly My parts machine has no keyboard or handle and the case has some good dents.
@@RavenWolfRetroTech i need one bottom feet if you have and on back screw
Where are you located? I can add one of the feet to my store if you are in the areas I can ship to. You can PM me if you like. Once I hear from you I'll delete this comment to avoid too many parts requests
@@RavenWolfRetroTech i send replay on your shop contact page please check did you get it
It looks like the email got messed up on that when my domain was moved. I am not getting test messages from the contact page either, sigh... In the meantime go to the about page on youtube and you can find my email there. its on the channel page then click more at the description....
Stole it for $150
At todays prices for sure, at the time they were a lot more reasonable in this area... albeit without the extra "Parts Machine" which I really want to find a way to restore!