Volkswagen Golf 8 Glove Box LED
Volkswagen Golf 8 Glove Box LED Amongst other things I own a Golf 8, the mild hybrid version. It impressed me some years back, and bought one second hand. RANT SPOILER: I will later post about the VAG vendor lock-in,…
Just Another Regular DIY Guy
A Hobbyst guy in the DIY world - retrogame retrocomputer guitars electronic engineering automotive
Just Another Regular DIY Guy
A Hobbyst guy in the DIY world - retrogame retrocomputer guitars electronic engineering automotive
Yet another PC adventure – floppy drive cleaning
Floppy drive is way dirty We all know – well, most probably don’t nowadays, arguably enough most people don’t even know what a floppy disk is as of today – that Floppy Drives could have become dirty overtime. Most people…
Some retro PC stuff now – 486
My 486 PC restoration During 2025 I’ve put my electronics skills back on the workbench. During 2024 I’ve started restoring my PCs. One I’ve been particularly intrigued is the 486 PC I’ve got, which kind of surprised me. This one…
Yet another Sinclair HW (ugh, just stop)
Sinlair QL restoration Someone out there may say I’ve got some fetish for Sinclair hardware by now, ehehe. I swear this is my last post about Sinclair (for now, none knows about the future). Where to begin with…? Before having…
Sinclair ZX Printer restoration
Sinclair ZX Printer restoration Alongside with all the Sinclair stuff I’ve had acquired recently, there was also a Sinclair ZX Printer. Which…of course didn’t work. Here’s a pic AFTER it being repaired. I don’t have any prior to repairing it.…
Sinclair Spectrum 48K Issue 3 (Rubber Keys) restoration
Time for a new Sinclair, this time is about the standard 48K Spectrum. Rubber keys, pretty much historical material. As per the other post about the Sinclair ZX 81 Restoration, I went through cleaning it up first. Though, this work…
NES Gamepad Repair
NES Gamepad Clean & Repair Recently I’ve been fixing my ol’NES – Nintendo Entertainment System PAL, the ‘toaster’. I will write a post about it, as I still have to finish the work on it. I’ve been also looking at…
Sega Mega Drive 1 ZIP Video RAM broken pins fix
Today I’ve got some fresh work I’ve been dealing with. As part of troubleshooting a Sega Mega Drive 1 VA4 PAL unit which is faulty – for which I’ll be posting something about sooner or later – I’ve been unsoldering…
Sinclair ZX 81 Restoration
The beginning As a first post I’ll start with the very first work I’ve been doing in DIY electronics in a while (say, > 10 years), which is restoring a long forgotten ZX 81 I’ve been collecting in my museum…
First commit
Hello everyone, Fix_Metal here. I’ve been online since ~ 1999, and pretty much dealing with any hardware related things that are to do with electronics from a young age. I do IT for a living in an enterprise company, but…