Nice! A bit of a tip on fixing cut cables I picked up somewhere. You don't cut both of the smaller cables in parallel but offset instead, so your heatshrinks won't be piled up together but one after the other, resulting in a much less bulkier fix in the cable radius. If you have room for it, that is.
I personally would have removed the damaged part of the cable from the mainboard, fiddled the good part through the protector and then soldered that to the mainboard. No heatshrink needed at all and considering the damaged part of the cable was so close to the protector, nobody would have noticed 5 or 10 centimeters missing.
@@MisterZealot No, normally they aren't, I've done that to a few older controllers, the cable breaking shortly before the protector is an extremely common problem with OG Xbox controllers for example. And it's really not much more work than what was shown in the video, I mean you have to strip the wires anyways to fuse them together with lead, but you'll also have to use quite a few pieces of heatshrinking tube.
Your fix it videos always make me laugh . Not only are they instructive, I appreciate your sense of humor. Keep them coming ! I’ve been with you since less then 5000 subscribers and I’m really happy to see how much your channel has grown!
"You could say it was....par for the course." -- truly, this caused me pain in some form (haha). A simple, yet very enjoyable repair to watch (I personally struggle with very fine wires, so really appreciated watching the video cable repair)
My bosses sister was the accountant for the company that created golden tee. The company went from a handful of people to hundreds when Golden Tee became a hit in all the bars. Takes me back to my bar going days.
This is why I love the internet 💀 An utterly random golf gadget being repaired out of a job lot found on eBay and someone who knows the company accountant for a company you’ve never heard of is just in the comments… (assuming you aren’t lying)
Love it, and at least it wasn't another USB or HDMI port. I love that RUclips hit me with multiple ads for golfing in Calgary during this video. I don't golf. I'm not in Calgary.
When ever you splice multi-conductor cable, always stagger the splices by the length of each splice. That way the total thickness will be the thickness of the original cable plus one splice. It will barely be bigger than the cable originally was.
Awesome video as always sir. The vinegar used to remove the corrosion is great. Please remember to wash the vinegar (acid) off with a bath of water and baking soda to properly nutralize the acid. Then use the 99.9% alcohol. I restore lots of Tomy robots and other retro electrinics and I paid the penalty for not neutralizing the acid residue fully on a few projects I did when I started the hobby. Anyways, love the personality and content you provide. Thanks again.
Just came across your channel. I have absolutely no experience in electrical engineering, but love what you do, and how you do it :) Greetings from Denmark
When you had this open it appeared as if one of the supports for the roller ball was broken inside the console, still very good job, really enjoy your videos.
Steve, one thing I like to do when soldering wires like that is to form hooks in the braided wire (and the shield) then use the hooks to give both sides support. Just folding the wire onto itself for a little bit will make a decent hook and then they can be hooked on the other wire and "handshake" a bit. Twisting them together helps after they're hooked together, as well, then solder and cover with the shrink tubing. Anyways, thx for the video!
I used to play the arcade version of this at my local arcade. I think it was a newer version as the graphics were way better. Was one of my favorite games to play there
Very cool. I picked up one of these faulty units, too. It has battery corrosion, but it seems to be getting power. No video though. I am going to play with it some more to see if I can get it working. If not, maybe I can hack the trackball for something else.
I successfully replaced the tiny batteries in my Bluetooth headphones using my mates setup that is similar to yours. We are both inspired by your repairs! ps: my soldering was average
usually those types of strain reliefs you can desolder the cable from the board, pull the cable through the relief, cut out the damage and then feed the healthy cable back through and resolder to the board for a cleaner repair.
I usually loosen up that kind of strain relief with hot air, then it would be a matter of pulling the cable in to hide the fix, or resolder it internally, on a case by case basis.
I got the same item at a thrift store the other day. batteries were corroded and fuzed. Luckily it didn't eat the contacts too bad. All those plug and play games people always leave batteries in them.
Funny to see the voltage dropping because of bad connections, didn’t know it would have this behavior. Easy quick fix again Steve 😅 hey can’t you come up with more difficult stuff ? 😁
You should clean out the vinegar with a lot of water if possible. The acid is able to eat away the chrome coating of the contacts. To prevent this it should be neutralized somehow as soon as it did its job.
Well I learned something. I've never been good at hearing lyrics, crap actually. So I was very happy to see the line 'with my mind she runs' from Golden Brown, I always thought the song was about machine guns. :D
No way. I've been working my way through your videos and I actually have one of these I bought at a bootsale, plugged the wrong power supply into it and it popped. Maybe this video will help me fix it 🤞🏼 Edit - should have watched the video first as I would have realised you don't actually ever look at the board as it was a battery compartment corrosion fix 🙄😄. Stupid you tube
ive just got home to find id been burgled and then dealing with the police for hours , this has cheered me right up stez watching on my phione as they took my tv 🤣 gotta laugh or id cry thanks for the video mate
Ohh, Steve... I would just rinse the vinegar and only THEN clean it with alcohol. You need to dilute that strong vinegar, in fact, baking soda+water is the best to neutralize vinegar. I suggest you cut the bad video cable part and pull the cable inside the unit and no one will know it was repaired. Patching the wire looks kinda gross. You can pull out the old piece of wire from the strain relief and use it again easily.
Usually if you wiggle those supposedly "molded" strain reliefs around you can get the wire sliding in it. The better way to handle this guy would have been to do that and pull 2" of wire back into the box and make new internal connections. But what do I know.
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Stupid Radica Golden Tee Golf Thing
How did you get so lucky. I bet you thought you would be up all night for the fun or sun? LUCKY.😀
i've got one of these. GTG is ace. its not a great version, purely because it misses out the really snarky annoucer voice over. " its in the drink"
I read that as GoldenEye golf and thought it was based on James Bond's retirement years
*GET IN!*
I was a bit surprised you bodged the wire externally, instead of just rewiring inside the unit
Your videos inspired me to bid on a junk auction for my dream guitar, and I was able to repair it. Here's a sincere thanks from Texas.
Nice bro! Congrats from Houston 🤘🏻
I hope it was a BC Rich
That's fantastic, dude! Very well done indeed!
Thanks, y'all. It's a Casio EG-5, the weird one with a cassette player. 😅
Stupid Guitar~
Used to love playing this in the pub, had no idea they made a home version!
Yeah, I vaguely remember the arcade version but hadn't seen this before either. It's good fun!
Yeah this was a favourite of mine when I was a young en.Good video my man.
@@StezStixFix Almost every sports bar in the US had a Golden Tee.
@@StezStixFix but also, a stupid game .. right ?
Nice! A bit of a tip on fixing cut cables I picked up somewhere. You don't cut both of the smaller cables in parallel but offset instead, so your heatshrinks won't be piled up together but one after the other, resulting in a much less bulkier fix in the cable radius. If you have room for it, that is.
Fuckin' genius! I'm stealing this idea.
I personally would have removed the damaged part of the cable from the mainboard, fiddled the good part through the protector and then soldered that to the mainboard. No heatshrink needed at all and considering the damaged part of the cable was so close to the protector, nobody would have noticed 5 or 10 centimeters missing.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo putting aside that it sounds like a lot of work 😋, most protectors are fused to the cable. Aren't they?
@@MisterZealot No, normally they aren't, I've done that to a few older controllers, the cable breaking shortly before the protector is an extremely common problem with OG Xbox controllers for example. And it's really not much more work than what was shown in the video, I mean you have to strip the wires anyways to fuse them together with lead, but you'll also have to use quite a few pieces of heatshrinking tube.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo Aha. Ok. Guess I never paid too much attention to them and assumed they were fix. Good to know.
Your fix it videos always make me laugh . Not only are they instructive, I appreciate your sense of humor. Keep them coming ! I’ve been with you since less then 5000 subscribers and I’m really happy to see how much your channel has grown!
"You could say it was....par for the course." -- truly, this caused me pain in some form (haha).
A simple, yet very enjoyable repair to watch (I personally struggle with very fine wires, so really appreciated watching the video cable repair)
My bosses sister was the accountant for the company that created golden tee. The company went from a handful of people to hundreds when Golden Tee became a hit in all the bars. Takes me back to my bar going days.
This is why I love the internet 💀
An utterly random golf gadget being repaired out of a job lot found on eBay and someone who knows the company accountant for a company you’ve never heard of is just in the comments… (assuming you aren’t lying)
Nice Steve! Remember that golf is only a pretentious excuse to drink in public! VOS was awesome today too. 👍
😁 Thanks, Chris!
Love it, and at least it wasn't another USB or HDMI port.
I love that RUclips hit me with multiple ads for golfing in Calgary during this video. I don't golf. I'm not in Calgary.
When ever you splice multi-conductor cable, always stagger the splices by the length of each splice. That way the total thickness will be the thickness of the original cable plus one splice. It will barely be bigger than the cable originally was.
The look you give after the pun was perfect.
Glad to see your daughter chipping in! 🤣
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''Par for the Course'' stares intently freaking hilarious If you ever quit what you doing to go do comedy I'd still be your number one fan.
Awesome video as always sir. The vinegar used to remove the corrosion is great. Please remember to wash the vinegar (acid) off with a bath of water and baking soda to properly nutralize the acid. Then use the 99.9% alcohol.
I restore lots of Tomy robots and other retro electrinics and I paid the penalty for not neutralizing the acid residue fully on a few projects I did when I started the hobby. Anyways, love the personality and content you provide. Thanks again.
Just found this gem of a channel and now i can't stop watching!
Par for the course…nice. Great work Steve! You need some more challenges.
I liked the little nod to The Stranglers at the end 👏 👏
"Par for the course", that stare got me chuckling. Dad humor is strong with this one.
You closed it out with a cover of one of my favorite songs ever. Golden Brown
Just came across your channel. I have absolutely no experience in electrical engineering, but love what you do, and how you do it :) Greetings from Denmark
This was an arcade classic back in the day! Top work as always dude
Hi Stez, any chance of a "champion the wonder horse" as an outro, it would make my day!!
When you had this open it appeared as if one of the supports for the roller ball was broken inside the console, still very good job, really enjoy your videos.
Love the "Golden Brown" cover at the end.
I have never skipped any Rap Steve!
I love your video's, keep going ♡
There's never a frown with your golden channel
Steve, one thing I like to do when soldering wires like that is to form hooks in the braided wire (and the shield) then use the hooks to give both sides support. Just folding the wire onto itself for a little bit will make a decent hook and then they can be hooked on the other wire and "handshake" a bit. Twisting them together helps after they're hooked together, as well, then solder and cover with the shrink tubing. Anyways, thx for the video!
Yeah thats the way. Those splices he did wont hold up long!
I used to play the arcade version of this at my local arcade. I think it was a newer version as the graphics were way better. Was one of my favorite games to play there
That was a Grand Par said ,Grandma - nice fix - stupid game
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Very cool. I picked up one of these faulty units, too. It has battery corrosion, but it seems to be getting power. No video though. I am going to play with it some more to see if I can get it working. If not, maybe I can hack the trackball for something else.
That's a great game. Nice fix.
"Daaaad! My Toothbrush isn't Dirty! Have you skipped work again???"
This video was Par for the course. Excellent as always!
Haven't seen your vids in a bit, but always glad to see you posting x
Waiting for the lyrics to drop to push that 👍 button 👌
LET'S GOOO!!!
It's definitely not a "Stez" video without the "Stupid game"😊
Keep up the good work! Always a laugh and something to learn
Another great video!! Thank you and keep them coming!!
That game wasn’t stupid, you were really enjoying it. 😂
Nice work Steve.
Thanks Frederick! 😊
I successfully replaced the tiny batteries in my Bluetooth headphones using my mates setup that is similar to yours. We are both inspired by your repairs! ps: my soldering was average
usually those types of strain reliefs you can desolder the cable from the board, pull the cable through the relief, cut out the damage and then feed the healthy cable back through and resolder to the board for a cleaner repair.
I usually loosen up that kind of strain relief with hot air, then it would be a matter of pulling the cable in to hide the fix, or resolder it internally, on a case by case basis.
yep thats what i would of done
I want this!!! Used to love this game in the pubs in the States
Golden Brown.... Beautiful song
Pat for the course deserved a like 😂
I got the same item at a thrift store the other day. batteries were corroded and fuzed. Luckily it didn't eat the contacts too bad. All those plug and play games people always leave batteries in them.
That looks fun. Worth replacing the cable with AV jacks to use standard AV cables?
I have one of these, one of the inexplicable mainstays of pubs around here were goldentee arcade machines..
nice touch with a bit of stranglers...
I enjoy watching your videos. I find them informative and fun to watch. my best to dave. Thank you and have a great morning/afternoon/evening = )
Next career incoming: Golf Pro ! Very well done, thanks
oh boy that cable soldering gave me the shivers :D
Music today was 10/10, great work Steve! Say hi to Dave for me
Funny to see the voltage dropping because of bad connections, didn’t know it would have this behavior.
Easy quick fix again Steve 😅 hey can’t you come up with more difficult stuff ? 😁
I like the easy ones , makes me more confident to have a go :)
What a classic game, now I need to hunt mine out of the loft
Nicely done Steve!
Par for the course. Quality!!
In it’s time this was a great little game with a cool controller.
I’m once again here for the awesome rap. It’s cool that he fixes stuff too though.
This looks great to have at home.
I usually use 1 to 5% sollution of TCA or TFA in water, works and clean much faster that vinegar
Just great, Steve! Nice adapatation até the end! 😂
And i thought i cant solder wires 😂 Even master have problem with that. Lot of love Man !! Keep doing what u do !!
without SMD soldiering and no SOLID Test this video is only half the genious than others from you
Good fix Steve, and the world needs more alcohol-> tea song lyric transformations 👍😀
Rap soundtrack is the same one Tito on Retro Renew uses for his outro. You turned it into a full on banger 😂
You should clean out the vinegar with a lot of water if possible. The acid is able to eat away the chrome coating of the contacts. To prevent this it should be neutralized somehow as soon as it did its job.
*awards golf clap of acceptance for the goldblum line lol*
On only post a video every two weeks now you don't need us. Just be careful Steve. It can change over night
You put a smile on my face! Thank you!!
Never skipping StezStix's rhymes is the only way
Love the dad jokes xD "Got my daughters toothbrush"
Well I learned something. I've never been good at hearing lyrics, crap actually. So I was very happy to see the line 'with my mind she runs' from Golden Brown, I always thought the song was about machine guns. :D
Great fix well done 😊
Gooood job, damn cords getting caught in crap, great video! And par for the corse was a pretty good dad joke 😂
Guys, what does Mr. Oizo mean?
(Thank you for the video, Steve)
after watching your channel it makes me think of all the good stuff that ends up in land fill what could've been saved .. Nice
Your Raps are epic mate love em
I would say this repair is on par with your others.
No way. I've been working my way through your videos and I actually have one of these I bought at a bootsale, plugged the wrong power supply into it and it popped. Maybe this video will help me fix it 🤞🏼
Edit - should have watched the video first as I would have realised you don't actually ever look at the board as it was a battery compartment corrosion fix 🙄😄.
Stupid you tube
Oh dear.....proper 'dad joke'!! 😁
What a one liner to finish …. Gold 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love hearing "Stupid Game" always makes my day.
Being a bit tight, I've put my daughter on a strict diet of pickled onions... saves time too!
Head shrink tubes are the bandaids of cables
I was playing golden tee the other day on arcade and trackball.
You rock brother!
Lmao, never change brother, the jokes are part of the experience I wouldn't miss. Keep em comin!
Does this guy rap in all of his videos? That was hilarious and actually straight fire XD
ive just got home to find id been burgled and then dealing with the police for hours , this has cheered me right up stez watching on my phione as they took my tv 🤣 gotta laugh or id cry thanks for the video mate
7:39 little water spots inside the casing right before you place it back over top
@cavauro it wouldn't be water, he was using isopropyl alcohol to clean the board. It evaporates in less than a minute after its applied.
Ohh, Steve... I would just rinse the vinegar and only THEN clean it with alcohol. You need to dilute that strong vinegar, in fact, baking soda+water is the best to neutralize vinegar.
I suggest you cut the bad video cable part and pull the cable inside the unit and no one will know it was repaired. Patching the wire looks kinda gross. You can pull out the old piece of wire from the strain relief and use it again easily.
Usually if you wiggle those supposedly "molded" strain reliefs around you can get the wire sliding in it. The better way to handle this guy would have been to do that and pull 2" of wire back into the box and make new internal connections. But what do I know.
Little game pleases great mind
bro your like a gaming god. well game fixing god anyway. !
On the cable, I would have cut it like you did, but then open it back up, and solder to the board.
Worse joke ever at the end - did make me chuckle 😂