As someone who used to own, restore and repair arcade machines - you were right about the buttons - earlier arcade machines used leaf switches, newer ones used micro switches. Leaf switches were great, but sometimes needed adjustments as the ‘leafs’ would get too close together meaning there wasn’t enough travel in the buttons or joysticks
Interesting to know Kip Hakes. I used to work in arcades for years repairing video games and fruit machines, pinball machines etc. I've still got a box of old boards somewhere, and I think an original space invaders pt ii board too! Yes the old games like space invaders, galaxian etc used leaf switches I remember trying to clean the contacts on them!
@@kiphakes Wow 15! I had a super nintendo arcade cabinet with 3 games on it for years and made a loom so you could plug jamma pcbs into it. It was slightly unusual as it had joysticks and not the snes pads. Sold it a few years back now, but still got a box full of jamma boards somewhere.
I love these vids where you're repairing a cracked board. One of your vids like this was the "Ah-ha" moment for me. I finally felt like I understood enough to try my hand at these kinds of repairs. Just resurrected a cracked PCB :) My first of (what I hope to be) many. Thanks so much, Steve!
The internals on these Pandora sets are always so lovely to work on. Yeah they're cheaply made, but it's all bog standard pinnings and software, and there's nothing going on you can't understand by simply looking at it. The fun part is putting what you like in place of the cheap stock parts.
I have to say I really appreciate the fact that you clean the flux after soldering - it always bothers me when people leave the dirt and gunk on the boards and yours looks so much better. My OCD is satisfied.
I watch a bunch of repair channels but because of yours it inspired me to try repairing. Got my kit ready and am attempting to put a mod chip MM3 on a PS1. it was because you admit when you don't know the answer. I was like....wait...you don't have to be an ultra pro to solder? Lol. Also YOU. Brings so much personality to it all. Your existence will end up getting me in trouble as I spend 75% of my day watching you instead of working. Eventually ill be caught. Is what it is.
Those buttons are standard 30mm. Anything will work (try Sanwa, Seimitsu, or equivalent clones). Terminal orientation doesn't matter, you can connect the buttons either way. The clear part for the stick you kept calling the gate is indeed the gate. :) If you want to add more strength to the PCB repair, desolder the micro switches and add epoxy across the top of the cracks. Great work!
well, sort of. The clear part is the base plate, the center part of that base plate should have a removable round gate, they make hexagonal 8-way, circular and square gates, If you remove the base plate, you can push/turn the gate to remove it. The square gate has the added bonus of being able to rotate 45 degrees to switch from square (8-way) to diamond (4-way) operation, which comes in handy for old games that used a 4-way like Pac-Man. any sanwa-style gate will work, or you can 3D print gates as well. Some of the knock-off joysticks have a one-piece baseplate/gate. Even on my personal pandora clone, the gates can be replaced. One last tip: replace the screws holding he lid closed with thumbscrews; makes it easy to open and change gates, bad buttons, etc. These are easy to mod.
If you need to add extra strength to your superglue joins then add a small amount of baking soda to the glue. It adds structure to your mend and creates a solid chunk off matieral that is really strong
I would've glued the PCB like you did, but I would've used a small piece of wire between the endpoints of the PCB traces instead of repairing the trace itself. The soldered repairpoint is under mechanical stress now and prone to breaking / microfractures. A wire between the points where you checked continuity will survive flexing of the PCB halves. Other than that: as always, enjoyed your video. It truly is something I look forward to each week! Keep up the awesomeness! Don't ever change Steve!
I am still watching the video. The song that came up when he turned the console/joystick thing on is called "Break Point" by Garth Knight Edit: Great repair, Steve!
14:45 you missed a perfect opportunity to make a Matchbox Twenty-Bent reference. I can picture that little plastic thing saying: “Can you help me I'm bent? I'm so scared that I'll never Get put back together.” I digress. Another brilliant video, Mr. Fix. Can’t wait for the next one!
I own one of those Pandora boxes. Currently the best thing to buy are sanwa. Also you can connect USB joysticks to it and have three or four plates playing at the same time. Great video I really enjoyed it.
I know it's been a while since you did this but I have had great success using JB weld to repair broken PCBs. It's not just a matter is gluing the split pieces back together but also reinforcing them. I'll often use a small aluminium washer and completely cover it with the JB weld. So far I've never had one break in the same place. With these joysticks being a heavy use part I can imagine those small sections are VERY high stress and prone to breaking.
Sanwa buttons are great. I use them on machinery control panels as they're so much cheaper than dedicated industrial stuff and are equally as reliable.
There are a lot of Fixit youtube channels. But none with such a funny and charismatic person like you! I even whitelisted your channel for sponsorblock so i can hear your rap haha. Keep em coming and take care!
those kind of breaks sadly come up often in old crt tv repair, if you're ever concerned about the ruggedness of a patched break just use some cut capacitor leg and scrape back more of the coating than you need, then solder the leg across to act as a brace on the repair, it'll always lookm a bit frankenstein but it'll last probably longer than the rest of the board.
I think any break should be bridged and the wire cut not wiggled , I could see one of the repaired track wires start to loosen as it was twisted , finally I'm sure there are more appropriate gauged wire for bridging .. very interesting channel !
I have a powkiddy x16 that is need of repair the reset button is broke I was wondering if I could send it to you to fix and you can fix it and keep it I just want to see a video with it being fixed it would be so cool
Play around with some baking soda and super glue, so you can add that reinforcing trick to your tool box! And using more substantial copper wire over a longer length also can add some structural support.
You beat me to it 🤣🤣🤣 I was shouting at the screen "Use longer/heavier wire... help spread the stress across the crack" 👍 And the baking soda tip is a must. I use it all the time and have even used a gob of it to replace nasty, broken, plastic, moulded stud posts. Works like a charm 🤛 Cheers 🍺
@@Peter_A1466 Perfect. Good call but I suspect some tracks SSF has done recently would be a tad to narrow; excellent for reinforced grounds though. I'll remember that one for the future. Cheers 🍺
Just wanted to tell you I love your videos! I come down to my man cave every Saturday in hopes to watch a new vid from you! I watch your vids on my lg oled and have no way to comment. Today I watched this video and loved it. Went to my phone just to comment. I do tinkering just like you but love your videos and positive attitude! Much love from 🇺🇸
❤ I always wanted to have one for myself but I guess I missed to have it while being a kid 😔.. still that nostalgic feeling for old consoles and games live inside me somewhere
I wonder if something was dropped right on that joystick and smashed it through (and broken the button.) Or someone got REALLY mad and hit it a bit too hard....
Great faults to fix , I would have used epoxy rather than super glue as it’s much stronger if you can brace it from back even better but I would have been happy with this as all faults easy to diagnose and sort , enjoy 👍
The joystick board should be fine as long as the clear plastic joystick cage at the bottom stays in place. The reason the board broke was because the clear plastic part came off, it limits the travel of the joystick and if it isn't there, the player can over drive the stick and over travel the micro switches. This puts force and strain on the micro switches and PCB.
I built a retro arcade system a year or two ago. I got a modernish cabinet and hooked up a pc and bought a dual controller set. Came with 2 joysticks and 18 buttons. Cost about £25 from Amazon. The buttons have LED's in them so it all lights up nicely.
At 17:20 you have a cold solder joint on the upper wire, it probably will be intermittent and won't last. You may want to put another jumper over the solder mask you applied. Or better yet replace the whole joystick assembly with a better designed and built one.
Love the new workshop/den/cave of broken stuff. As an idea would an additional small TV in front of you and a HDMI splitter work? We get to see the big telly behind you, you can watch the same thing on your small TV.
Wow new hair, flashy new studio I'm loving it! I've been watching your videos for a year and it's been fun watching your channel grow. Keep up the great work 👍
Due to the joystick PCB being subjected to physical force I would have ran small hook-up wire to solder points further away from those breaks. I also use Lead free for joints on connectors and wires that have tension in some aspect. Leaded for general component soldering.
arcade stuff is fairly easy to work with. Each input has its own wire and everything is common ground, so you're just bringing the input lines low to activate them. Arcade parts were designed with maintenance in mind, as they were quite expensive and were supposed to last a VERY long time to justify them only costing a quarter or two to play.
I’m into arcade but i was never into watching how they are fixed till your channel showed up randomly, now I’ve watched all your videos 😂 i just love them, you are one of my favorite youtubers thank you for making my day’s
You can definitely upgrade it , beginning with stick adding Sanwa parts 8 gate switches (?) a new strong and good stick, great sanwa buttons etc. Would make that thing 10 times more enjoyable! (and you should be able to add games if I am mistaken.
well done steve i am going to buy one of these because i miss the old arcade shops back where you could go and play arcade games lol love the channel keep it up
From the looks of that, those switches are called Alps Switches, mainly used in mechanical keyboards. If the switch mechanism is broken you could find a replacement easily from China. Also polarity would not matter as long as they close the circuit. There are no diodes involved in the mechanism. Well done Stez, quite good trace repair and general fix overall. Love your work!
@@michaelstanley5215 Yup, just like Cherry MX switches. Cherry is the brand and OG creators of the switches, but other brands make "cherry style" switches as well. These switches from other brands are still called Cherry (compatible) Switches.
id swap to pause button on player 2, not needed and you could play with all six on both! nice fix! ive built my own arcade sticks so this is one fix i could’ve actually done myself!
It was a delightful surprise to see you Guile turtling at the end there. For the whole video I was wondering if you were going to know what you were doing lol
Very nice repair. I didn't think you'd bother repairing that broken PCB but I'm very glad you did. Very satisfying to watch. Where do I go to get solder mask and the UV light to go with it? I have yet to add these to my arsenal as I don't usually attempt trace repair, though you made it look easy enough that I'm interested now.
nice work steve oh by the way i will give you a tip about the warped plastic piece if done correctly t you could heat it up a little with a hair dryer/heat gun so its temporary more malleable so you could flatten it all else fails you could get a different piece secondly if you threw in baking soda or graphie with the superglue it would have made it even stronger
Not sure if it was mentioned. Some gates can be rotated to make them 8 way or 4 way. 8 way make diagonal easy while 4 way makes it basically up, down, left and right. Great for older arcade games like pac man, donkey Kong were you don't have diagonal movement.
Superglue activator spray/dust = sodium bicarb(for you limeys) baking soda here in the states You can use SA and baking soda to rebuild even chunks of missing plastic
Some Arcade joystick buttons do matter where the wire goes, but on this one they just press to make a circuit. Boring bit... arcade buttons can be click to make... or release to make contact ... depending on what pin you put the colour wire on 😊
It was likely dropped or fell from a place in storage an broke. If it hit concrete there would be scratches to the joystick but seeing as it wasn't.. it likely hit a different surface of contact. It would explain why the button was missing from shock impact making it pop off.
As someone who used to own, restore and repair arcade machines - you were right about the buttons - earlier arcade machines used leaf switches, newer ones used micro switches. Leaf switches were great, but sometimes needed adjustments as the ‘leafs’ would get too close together meaning there wasn’t enough travel in the buttons or joysticks
Ah thanks Kip! That makes sense. I've just ordered some Sanwa buttons from Amazon... hopefully they'll be genuine and the leaf-y kind! 😁
Interesting to know Kip Hakes. I used to work in arcades for years repairing video games and fruit machines, pinball machines etc. I've still got a box of old boards somewhere, and I think an original space invaders pt ii board too! Yes the old games like space invaders, galaxian etc used leaf switches I remember trying to clean the contacts on them!
@@BuyitFixit I used to have them in my house.. had 15 at my best / worst 😅
@@kiphakes Wow 15! I had a super nintendo arcade cabinet with 3 games on it for years and made a loom so you could plug jamma pcbs into it. It was slightly unusual as it had joysticks and not the snes pads. Sold it a few years back now, but still got a box full of jamma boards somewhere.
@@spikey911usasuppose when leaf switches are hard to find sanwa is next best option but see your view
"It's bent, it's not straight and someone has been too vigorous with the knob" - summed me up perfectly 😅
Ayo wtf 🤨🤨🤨📸
😂 nice.
I love these vids where you're repairing a cracked board. One of your vids like this was the "Ah-ha" moment for me. I finally felt like I understood enough to try my hand at these kinds of repairs. Just resurrected a cracked PCB :) My first of (what I hope to be) many. Thanks so much, Steve!
The internals on these Pandora sets are always so lovely to work on. Yeah they're cheaply made, but it's all bog standard pinnings and software, and there's nothing going on you can't understand by simply looking at it. The fun part is putting what you like in place of the cheap stock parts.
'I don't know much about anything.'
Oh Steve, you are my spirit animal.
You've really opened up Pandora's box on this one Stez 😂
😂😂
I have to say I really appreciate the fact that you clean the flux after soldering - it always bothers me when people leave the dirt and gunk on the boards and yours looks so much better. My OCD is satisfied.
I watch a bunch of repair channels but because of yours it inspired me to try repairing. Got my kit ready and am attempting to put a mod chip MM3 on a PS1. it was because you admit when you don't know the answer. I was like....wait...you don't have to be an ultra pro to solder? Lol. Also YOU. Brings so much personality to it all. Your existence will end up getting me in trouble as I spend 75% of my day watching you instead of working. Eventually ill be caught. Is what it is.
Those buttons are standard 30mm. Anything will work (try Sanwa, Seimitsu, or equivalent clones). Terminal orientation doesn't matter, you can connect the buttons either way.
The clear part for the stick you kept calling the gate is indeed the gate. :)
If you want to add more strength to the PCB repair, desolder the micro switches and add epoxy across the top of the cracks.
Great work!
well, sort of. The clear part is the base plate, the center part of that base plate should have a removable round gate, they make hexagonal 8-way, circular and square gates, If you remove the base plate, you can push/turn the gate to remove it. The square gate has the added bonus of being able to rotate 45 degrees to switch from square (8-way) to diamond (4-way) operation, which comes in handy for old games that used a 4-way like Pac-Man. any sanwa-style gate will work, or you can 3D print gates as well. Some of the knock-off joysticks have a one-piece baseplate/gate. Even on my personal pandora clone, the gates can be replaced. One last tip: replace the screws holding he lid closed with thumbscrews; makes it easy to open and change gates, bad buttons, etc. These are easy to mod.
Steve, these fixes are getting really advanced and complicated. I hope not only your audience sees you improving. This went into Vince territory
This is one of your best videos. Fixing mechanical along with electrical is awesome.
Hey Steve, I am so happy that you were able to work out whatever issue was preventing these videos from not showing up earlier in the week!
Yey! Glad it's now working and you get the early access! 👍
@@StezStixFix I just need to decide if I want to watch early or wait until the Saturday release to keep up my usual Saturday routine, lol.
@@StezStixFix did you need to solder anything to get them showing up again?
The music starting at 1:42 is "Garth Knight - Break Point"
You turn it on and immediately one starts hearing Eurobeat. Already this is good.
That was a great watch. Love the dry humour.
Solid!
I love that the sneeze made it into the final cut.
If you need to add extra strength to your superglue joins then add a small amount of baking soda to the glue. It adds structure to your mend and creates a solid chunk off matieral that is really strong
superglue and baking soda mixed makes a strong cement that could help give sturdiness to the broken board
I would've glued the PCB like you did, but I would've used a small piece of wire between the endpoints of the PCB traces instead of repairing the trace itself. The soldered repairpoint is under mechanical stress now and prone to breaking / microfractures. A wire between the points where you checked continuity will survive flexing of the PCB halves.
Other than that: as always, enjoyed your video. It truly is something I look forward to each week! Keep up the awesomeness! Don't ever change Steve!
oooo... really good point. Well done. Cheers 🍺
The new studio in the new house! Well done Stez, once again great content!
Thanks a lot
Thank you! Much appreciated 😍
i miss the settee
I need to set up a Patreon account for my next house! 😳
I am still watching the video.
The song that came up when he turned the console/joystick thing on is called "Break Point" by Garth Knight
Edit:
Great repair, Steve!
14:45 you missed a perfect opportunity to make a Matchbox Twenty-Bent reference.
I can picture that little plastic thing saying:
“Can you help me I'm bent?
I'm so scared that I'll never
Get put back together.”
I digress. Another brilliant video, Mr. Fix. Can’t wait for the next one!
My source of weekend entertainment, keep up the good work x 😊
I own one of those Pandora boxes.
Currently the best thing to buy are sanwa.
Also you can connect USB joysticks to it and have three or four plates playing at the same time.
Great video I really enjoyed it.
I know it's been a while since you did this but I have had great success using JB weld to repair broken PCBs. It's not just a matter is gluing the split pieces back together but also reinforcing them. I'll often use a small aluminium washer and completely cover it with the JB weld. So far I've never had one break in the same place. With these joysticks being a heavy use part I can imagine those small sections are VERY high stress and prone to breaking.
Just watched my first Stez video and I was thoroughly entertained. Thank you, sir.
Sanwa buttons are great. I use them on machinery control panels as they're so much cheaper than dedicated industrial stuff and are equally as reliable.
I love the longer videos and the sneeze made the whole thing better 😂
I was delighted that you chose to repair the joystick. Cyanoacrylate and baking soda can achieve wonders in repairing structural elements.
Thanks so much for singing a snippet of “Fill My Little World” by The Feeling! My fave band! Made my evening.
There are a lot of Fixit youtube channels. But none with such a funny and charismatic person like you! I even whitelisted your channel for sponsorblock so i can hear your rap haha. Keep em coming and take care!
£50 😂😂😂😂love see you fix things out the bin. Keep doing it.😊
1st time winning at a game 😅 congrats Steve !!
🤣 I got beat in Round 2!
@@StezStixFix hahaha I knew you were hiding stuff from us 🤣
those kind of breaks sadly come up often in old crt tv repair, if you're ever concerned about the ruggedness of a patched break just use some cut capacitor leg and scrape back more of the coating than you need, then solder the leg across to act as a brace on the repair, it'll always lookm a bit frankenstein but it'll last probably longer than the rest of the board.
I think any break should be bridged and the wire cut not wiggled , I could see one of the repaired track wires start to loosen as it was twisted , finally I'm sure there are more appropriate gauged wire for bridging .. very interesting channel !
Nice. Thought we were going to see you break a nail getting the button out. Thanks for brightening my day.
The stare after you said "bit to vigorous with the knob" priceless
Your a genius for fixing things thats why i enjoy your videos
Great to see your new shop/studio/fixing- place Steve! 👍 😁
Cheers Chris! 👍
It's good that Steve was able to buy a new house with his patreon money.
😂🤣
Dolls house you mean😂😂😂
I have a powkiddy x16 that is need of repair the reset button is broke I was wondering if I could send it to you to fix and you can fix it and keep it I just want to see a video with it being fixed it would be so cool
Hi Steve. I love your work mate. Solid. Add baking soda to super glue for stronger bond.
Great video, new gaff looks fantastic love the TV on the wall and the 100k YT subscribed badge shows all ur hard work is worth it, thanks bud!!
Cheers OBM! Much appreciated 👍
Great vid. Getting addicted to these, so watching some of the older ones.
Dissolve some plexiglass in acetone, for the strongest superglue ever
Play around with some baking soda and super glue, so you can add that reinforcing trick to your tool box!
And using more substantial copper wire over a longer length also can add some structural support.
Graphite powder with super glue is even stronger, though I'm not sure if it would present connectivity issues when working around circuitry.
You beat me to it 🤣🤣🤣 I was shouting at the screen "Use longer/heavier wire... help spread the stress across the crack" 👍 And the baking soda tip is a must. I use it all the time and have even used a gob of it to replace nasty, broken, plastic, moulded stud posts. Works like a charm 🤛 Cheers 🍺
@@Bloke-in-Stokeold pieces of solder wick can also be very good for bridging wider tracks over a cracked board
@@Peter_A1466 Perfect. Good call but I suspect some tracks SSF has done recently would be a tad to narrow; excellent for reinforced grounds though. I'll remember that one for the future. Cheers 🍺
gosh this one was so satisfying to watch - wow - best vid yet - thanks Steve
Hi, Steve, we were wondering if your store products would increase...
some mugs? maybe some t-shirts?? Thank you... your work is great fun to watch!!
Joysticks/buttons are easy enough to replace but GJ repairing that PCB board.
You can use hot air at about 180 to gently soften plastic and coax it back to shape.
thats what i was think you could us a hair dryer or heat gun so you could get it back into shape
Great job Steve 👍Nice👍
Just wanted to tell you I love your videos! I come down to my man cave every Saturday in hopes to watch a new vid from you! I watch your vids on my lg oled and have no way to comment. Today I watched this video and loved it. Went to my phone just to comment. I do tinkering just like you but love your videos and positive attitude! Much love from 🇺🇸
Your videos make me simply happy.
Appreciate the musical effort. Top notch. The repairs are appreciated as well as Gordon
❤ I always wanted to have one for myself but I guess I missed to have it while being a kid 😔.. still that nostalgic feeling for old consoles and games live inside me somewhere
I wonder if something was dropped right on that joystick and smashed it through (and broken the button.) Or someone got REALLY mad and hit it a bit too hard....
Yeah, I'm thinking it was dropped/something dropped on it. It's possible that it was rage, but more likely it fell off the sofa!
It's probably rage induced.😂
I was thinking it fell off a table and landed face down. Or someone at night stepped on it. Could also be rage.
It was an attack of The Salty Monster 💀
If it hit the floor upside down, that would likely do something horrible to the joystick.
As always great job. I would have taken the button from play paws and just wired up some random button till new one came in. Cheers
Great faults to fix , I would have used epoxy rather than super glue as it’s much stronger if you can brace it from back even better but I would have been happy with this as all faults easy to diagnose and sort , enjoy 👍
Loved the multiple fixes here. Good as new. I would love to see it when you get the switches replaced!
Your enthusiasm is energetic 😊
Being honest, this channel is really to push your singing/rap career, isn't it? You just fix stuff for fun. 🤣😂🤣 Great video, as usual!
The joystick board should be fine as long as the clear plastic joystick cage at the bottom stays in place. The reason the board broke was because the clear plastic part came off, it limits the travel of the joystick and if it isn't there, the player can over drive the stick and over travel the micro switches. This puts force and strain on the micro switches and PCB.
I built a retro arcade system a year or two ago. I got a modernish cabinet and hooked up a pc and bought a dual controller set. Came with 2 joysticks and 18 buttons. Cost about £25 from Amazon. The buttons have LED's in them so it all lights up nicely.
Brilliant fix Steve the buttons are prob quiet cheap connect more led strips to illuminate the box more
18:18 love the pause from the music montage
At 17:20 you have a cold solder joint on the upper wire, it probably will be intermittent and won't last. You may want to put another jumper over the solder mask you applied. Or better yet replace the whole joystick assembly with a better designed and built one.
Love the new workshop/den/cave of broken stuff. As an idea would an additional small TV in front of you and a HDMI splitter work? We get to see the big telly behind you, you can watch the same thing on your small TV.
Wow new hair, flashy new studio I'm loving it! I've been watching your videos for a year and it's been fun watching your channel grow. Keep up the great work 👍
Great job Steve glad you got it up and running again keep up the good work and looking forward to seeing what you got up next 👍
For japanese joysticks I recommend Sanwa or Seimitsu. Sanwa is makes great fighter sticks but I like Seimtisu's LS-32 for shmup style games.
Due to the joystick PCB being subjected to physical force I would have ran small hook-up wire to solder points further away from those breaks.
I also use Lead free for joints on connectors and wires that have tension in some aspect.
Leaded for general component soldering.
Steve, when you patch traces like that, grind away more and use some thin wire to re-enforce the repair, it will also help bridge the solder.
Another fantastic fix, those led lights are very disappointing, I was expecting a bit of a disco effect lol. Gimmicks.
Love the new setup at the new house! And the 100k button from UA-cam! Congrats!!! You deserve it :)
Love the silver play button in the background
arcade stuff is fairly easy to work with. Each input has its own wire and everything is common ground, so you're just bringing the input lines low to activate them. Arcade parts were designed with maintenance in mind, as they were quite expensive and were supposed to last a VERY long time to justify them only costing a quarter or two to play.
New graphics, new location, new everything, NICE!!
I’m into arcade but i was never into watching how they are fixed till your channel showed up randomly, now I’ve watched all your videos 😂 i just love them, you are one of my favorite youtubers thank you for making my day’s
I built one of these a few years ago. Got 2 sanwa joysticks all the buttons and 2 joystick/button modules to USB and a raspberry pi inside.
Great stuff Steve and loving the new setup in the new gaff!! A1 fix as usual and great to see the silver YT badge on the wall in pride of place!!😃😃
😁 thanks Greg! Yeah, felt good to receive that silver play badge!
I always save my used solder wick.there great for repairing pcb. Clean rhe board and bridge across the crack.solder completely. Makes crack stronger.
Wonderful to see the silver play button in the background 👏🏼 well deserved
You can definitely upgrade it , beginning with stick adding Sanwa parts 8 gate switches (?) a new strong and good stick, great sanwa buttons etc. Would make that thing 10 times more enjoyable! (and you should be able to add games if I am mistaken.
well done steve i am going to buy one of these because i miss the old arcade shops back where you could go and play arcade games lol love the channel keep it up
From the looks of that, those switches are called Alps Switches, mainly used in mechanical keyboards. If the switch mechanism is broken you could find a replacement easily from China. Also polarity would not matter as long as they close the circuit. There are no diodes involved in the mechanism. Well done Stez, quite good trace repair and general fix overall. Love your work!
Alps is a brand of mechanical switches, not a type of switch.
@@michaelstanley5215 Yup, just like Cherry MX switches. Cherry is the brand and OG creators of the switches, but other brands make "cherry style" switches as well. These switches from other brands are still called Cherry (compatible) Switches.
@@ardakilicdagi Thanks for the lecture, I guess? Cherry didn't actually invent mechanical keyboard switches, IBM did.
@@michaelstanley5215 And neither are Alps style switches. Their foot print is not compatible with each other. What is your point here?
@@ardakilicdagi I'm just trying to point out that you have no idea what you are talking about, yet you keep rambling on. Are you always like this?
id swap to pause button on player 2, not needed and you could play with all six on both! nice fix! ive built my own arcade sticks so this is one fix i could’ve actually done myself!
I can’t stop watching your videos Steve! You’ve inspired me, thank you 👍🏼
It was a delightful surprise to see you Guile turtling at the end there. For the whole video I was wondering if you were going to know what you were doing lol
I'd love to find out where you can get a can on that activator stuff, and as always NICE!
Very nice repair. I didn't think you'd bother repairing that broken PCB but I'm very glad you did. Very satisfying to watch. Where do I go to get solder mask and the UV light to go with it? I have yet to add these to my arsenal as I don't usually attempt trace repair, though you made it look easy enough that I'm interested now.
we will get a Tour of the new "Studio" at some point aswell. Looks pretty neat now and much bigger than the old Setup.
Your video's are as funny as they are informative. Love each one.. trying to catch up on all your video's
nice work steve
oh by the way i will give you a tip about the warped plastic piece if done correctly t you could heat it up a little with a hair dryer/heat gun so its temporary more malleable so you could flatten it all else fails you could get a different piece
secondly if you threw in baking soda or graphie with the superglue it would have made it even stronger
Not sure if it was mentioned. Some gates can be rotated to make them 8 way or 4 way. 8 way make diagonal easy while 4 way makes it basically up, down, left and right. Great for older arcade games like pac man, donkey Kong were you don't have diagonal movement.
Superglue activator spray/dust = sodium bicarb(for you limeys) baking soda here in the states
You can use SA and baking soda to rebuild even chunks of missing plastic
after rejoining and soldering the board you could add super glue and baking soda to the join to strengthen it
Exactly!
Also, use thicker copper wire over a longer cleared copper track area to give some additional rigidity and structure...
using 2part expoxy or uv cure epoxy helps repair circuitboards like these quite well. provides a stronger bond than cyanoacrilate(superglue).
You are the best fixy type youtuber.
Some Arcade joystick buttons do matter where the wire goes, but on this one they just press to make a circuit.
Boring bit... arcade buttons can be click to make... or release to make contact ... depending on what pin you put the colour wire on 😊
as a very sturdy reinforcement you can use superglue and baking soda, it sets instantly and turns into a very hard plastic.
Good fix enjoyable to watch😊
Plugs it in: epic 80’s training montage music plays.
Give it a minute, lemme enjoy this….
It was likely dropped or fell from a place in storage an broke. If it hit concrete there would be scratches to the joystick but seeing as it wasn't.. it likely hit a different surface of contact. It would explain why the button was missing from shock impact making it pop off.