Ear wax AND spot welding?! You do spoil us! What a time we live in!

During the start of covid i Iost my job as did most of the UK.i hit depression hard the world seemed unreal to me I lost my focus and concentration. Watching my mate Vince helped me to regain my mental health.i just want to say thank you vince.❤

Vince, you're a brave man using a phone to check if a charger is faulty !

I love these videos so much! They give off such a cozy feeling. Never change, Vince 😊

Loved this one Vince! Hope you can do more Amazon mystery boxes, the mystery just adds to the enjoyment of your videos

I never thought you would do great with an Amazon box on ebay. However you did, and made a great content, that I like so much.

Turned out to not be a bad little lot, and I'd love to see the rest of the items reviewed/assessed/repaired! I also kinda knew that most of the batteries would be good as well. Most people just tend to select damaged as the reason for return just so they can get free return shipping (at the sellers' expense!). The seller then can't resell the item as brand new (if at all).

The reason the battery pack didn't originally come on when you bent the tag down (and also after the repair) until after you'd supplied external power is a good sign that the charge controller is behaving correctly! When the battery was disconnected, the charge controller saw the 0v and put itself into undervoltage protection mode before it's power failed (there's probably a capacitor that held enough charge to allow this). It's then isolated from drawing power from the battery so as to avoid the fire risk of draining it too low. As soon as you supplied external power, it could safely power itself and check on the current battery state, saw the battery was at a safe voltage and switched into the normal charge cycle.

Saw your chnl first time today and was suprised that i was already subbd to you !! Saw the tape deck, cd player, both B+O and now this, all in one go !! Love your vdos and your honesty in making them...super videography too. Thanks a ton !!

Love your excitement and enthusiasm in these repairs. Because of you I recently started repairs of my own for resell purposes. I’m starting out with local buys of broken iPads in my area and fixing them for profit. The rush you get from repairs is something worth it 100%. Keep up the vids man, so inspiring. ❤

This was the best earwax and spot welding video I've ever watched.

i really enjoyed that. having to fix so many items in one go instead of one item a video was interesting and satisfactory imo i loved this video and i hope u do more like this

I have that batter bank and it's great. Good to know it's hard to take to bits in a way so it shouldn't get damaged easily!

Just found your channel and glad I did. I am happy someone is repairing what they get in the Amazon bulk packages and not just opening and seeing what is in there. Just a suggestion....if you don't already have a set then get some dental picks to clean out hard to reach areas.

You can widen heat shrink with needlenose pliers. It will spring back to it's original size when heat is applied.

A lot of returns arent faulty, they can just be because they changed thier mind, or ordered the wronf thing but returned it as 'damaged' as this is a way to get it returned postage-free, otherwise you have to pay the return postage. Or another reason it might be just damaged oackaging ibstead of the actual items. But a lot of items not might have anything wrong at all. Be careful when ordering any Mystery Boxes from unscrupulous sellers as they are already been compiled / re-sold by people who dont want the rest of the stuff

I'll sometimes use a piece of heatshrink that's too narrow to go over the connector and stretch it out with long-nosed pliers. Have to be careful as it can rip easily. Then it will fit over the connector, and shrink down small enough to fit the cable when you apply heat. That way you get a neat heatshrink covering on both the connector and cable. Another great video, good work!!!

Great job Vince! I always tend to see earwax on one of my earphones and I've cleaned them using an earphone cleaner kit that I bought off from Amazon so maybe you could consider using that. And also, not only you can use the multimeter to test the batteries. But also you could use a LED battery tester which will light up whichever the batteries are okay (green) or dead (red) Hope this advice will help you (and everyone else as well)

Great win dear Vince ! And many thanks for premium content !

Lolly stick or coffee stirrers are good for holding back covers while you work. Just cut them down and wedge them between base and lid each side. Also repairing charger ends you can get the heat shrink with glue in which works 👍

I'm glad you took up the fight with the power bank, it was exciting to see how it was made and where you would have to go to war with it if you wanted to repair it yourself. so thanks for this😊

Had the same battery bank for 6 months and very similar issue. Replaced it with their 3 year warranty and still working so far for a year now. Now I know what happened to my 1st one. Thanks!

Hello from Tampa Florida! Was not expecting that shout out. Thanks for making these videos

14:12 the theory of BIG BANG 🌩:D "You can smell it..." 🤣

I must agree, you came out on top with this Little lot, well done sir. Sadly not everybody would get such a good lot, but is the nature of the beast isn't it

Mate, this is why I love your channel. You took apart the headphones just because you were curious.

Haven't watched your videos in years! Miss you mate!

Nice video Vince! Hope too see more of these. A tip for chargers and minijack that would get bent a lot, is to put a spring from a pen or something at the end

I love this kind of stuff!!!!!!! Awesome Vince

It is such a fun Video Vince. I see you are on your way to 1m!

I SO want to stand next to you and at critical moments shout BANG!!!!!! 🤣😂🤣😂😉 Love that wee spot welder. Thanks for the vid.

Of, thank you for the video, great end of the week!

Nice job Vince!

Fishing for fixes. Great catches in this one.

I got an HDMI adapter kicking around that has a the same 'Apple-style' strain-relief that is really terrible at relieving strain. If it was easy to open those adapters it'd be a

awesome Vince nice bargain box from Amazon :) great fixes to boot :)

Enjoy seeing how you improvise.

Great job Vince.

Whoop whoop, the mug came in handy! I’d definitely try some Sugru for the cable repair if you do something similar in the future - it’s great stuff

Lovely Sunday special 😊

Glad you got your Charger working Vince..it gave you Quite a Shock Goodness :OOOOOO

great stuff Vince

That tiny spot welder reminds me a tiny heart defibrillator. CLEAR ! Zap. 😁

Fantastic video Vince with some great fixes! You almost gave me a heart attack when you jumped 😂😂

Well done chap. Think you done well ❤

Great video Vince the battery charger I have does all sorts with the batteries, when you turn it on it checks them them flattens (refreshes) them and then charges them, it was from Lidl and so are the batteries Nice box of magic there worth the £45

Made me laugh when case snapped back. While welding. I do the same thing when dealing with electricity.

I am tardy a little bit but I always use electrical tape before using heat shrink and it works great for me. would be delighted to see My Mate Vince trying it in a video

Your a better man than I Gunga Din, I once poked a hole in a Lithium flat pack battery and the rumours are true, I used to work as a Laboratory Technician and lithium in water is as reactive as Sodium metal almost. I watched the battery burn for ages too scared to touch it, but it was only one of the cells so it eventually stopped. But I developed a new sense of awareness for Lithium 🔋 batteries. Love the tiny welder( I want one ). Lovely video Vince, Amazon don't give much away do they. Great to watch you opening the Amazon 📦 Box, I was as exited as you to see what was inside, a tiny letdown though, but what can you expect for 45 pounds. A wonderful fix it video as usual Vince.

For those cable repairs, you could use "Sugru" or maybe some self-fusing tape.

Hi Vince... a simple bit of test gear can find 'motorboating' faults as per your mini Bush record player: a hi Z in AC coupled signal tracer. Instead of tracing audio signals, you 'listen' to the power supply where it feeds the audio amplifier. Any ripple (as caused by a 10nF cap rather than a 100nF) is immediately obvious - it's 'noise' on the power rails. If you've a 'scope you'll see a typical 'pop-pop-pop' triangular wave on the DC power rail(s). Job done!

I enjoy watching your videos vince. I would like to be able to fix some of my own stuff too. Is your Finger getting any better? it has been a while.

For the wired head phones. I think some sugru moldable rubber would of made a better job but regardless, great work Vince.

Oh Vince pls invest in a heat pad station or mat. I'm so surprised you don't have one yet. It will help you immensely. 😊

I've done quite a number of headphones' jacks repairs since my school days and currently trust epoxy more than hot glue. Because hot glue softens over time, being in contact with oils and other chemicals from skin. And, anyway, it's not really strong for holding those tiny wires. And there's a way to restore mechanical strength, at least, taking some load away from the wires themselves by means of a thread. Can run it few times, wrapping around the cable and the connector or even connecting it to the reinforcing thread of the cable if there is one. Also thread can be used as a part of new outer shell, that can be quite nice of done carefully. Just put threads close to each other over the repaired area and bind it with a glue of your choice. Mostly I've used PVA (wood glue) as it's easy to use and flexible when dry, but epoxy or even CA can be used as well.

Interesting mystery box and fixes :)

When i was a kid i would watch all yur videos😂

33:40 Hot tip. If your meter is reading too high for what you are testing, a lot of them will do that when the internal battery (often a 9v) is too low. It's caught me out a bunch of times.

Great video! Had to laugh at the power bank fix, have done quite a few myself but never without cursing. Apple products are usually drama, don't ever try fixing a modern iphone🤐 As for the earwax, you can make a candle if you manage to farm enough of it.

Great vid as always Vince! On suggestion is maybe get a hot glue gun for the hot glue as it might make it easier to apply glue

Great Job Vince, Nice little spot welder but 🤢 ewwww earwax

Ace :-) Perfect Sunday viewing :-)

A small spring from inside a pen with shrink over the top can provide good bend stress relief.

You deserve every bit of likes and subscribes

I like the NATO strap that you put on your M2M MoonSwatch 😎😎😎

I have seen many other people buy these types of surprise packages! You will often be fooled. it is often not what you get an impression of when you buy that is in the box!

I use a specific heat shrink when I do those repairs. Look into glue filled 4 to 1 heat shrink tubing. It mostly comes in black, but it shrinks down to 1/4 of the original size, and it is glue filled. The glue is pretty stiff once cured like hot glue but still a little flexible. Perfect for strain relief use on connectors.

These videos are great for seeing what not to buy ... ever

ha your like a cyborg all the electics ha great stuff vince brilliant welder

21:52 There's always a chip, since the cables have a DAC built in. The Apple ones just have their own special chip which nobody else can get.

You can get heat shrink with adhesive inside for strain relief 👍

Fun video!

Not bad at all! Gone all the way through town with those spot welds, the other, untouched end would fail instead! (Curious about how cheap the welder is, will be needing one for my battery pack) It is normal for non rechargeable AA, AAA cells to show 1.7 volts when fresh - that's how they are said to last X years in storage, once the voltage drops down to 1.5 volts it would have been that old (nearing expiry or otherwise expired, always check with a multimeter because there will be some stronger cells than others!) Is that Energizer charger the CHPRO? Pretty good unit. Maybe on the next mystery box you'll get a BQ-CC55 if the win streak goes through!

Get yourself 4 headway cells and a bms. You'll get hundreds of spot welds out of a charge and they can source 100's of amps, perfect for a spot welder. I do this with my spot welder. I just keep an eye on the voltage as my BMS is too small to handle the sport welder current.

Hahah. Maybe put some more spot welds on that power bank battery terminal. :D Most batteries are welded with two, maybe four spot welds? :D Awesome fixes, Vince! Your video really does have it all. :)

Regarding the Apple Earpods: you could in theory be able to resolder them to a conventional TRRS 3.5mm audio jack if you didn't want to deal with a Lightning port due to structural issues. I may be wrong though

I would love for "mystery box" to be a series

great idea for a video!

with the battery back, you could break the case open and 3d print one to place the unit back in when youve foxed it, couldnt resell it, but useful to have

Regarding the power bank, consider rubbing alcohol? And 80*C will soften hotglue while being safe for an attended lithium battery while discharged or not in use. Lithium batteries aren't worthy of their bomlike reputation when in the hands of experienced repairers, especially if not physically damaged. Cool vid!

LoL, you can buy other heatshrink that contains glue and has a 3:1 shrink. I use this all the time with connectors and works great. It is also availible in different colors (colours :P).

Throughly enjoyable watching you unbox that lot! And wow, that was terrifying watching you do the welding! Great job Vince!

You are welcome to try and fix my jumbo LCD clock..some of the digits are not right.

I think it'd be cool, if you made a cover for the power bank, maybe tie parachord around it or maybe get 2 pieces of leather and make like a hot pocket holder for it

The next step is going to an e-waste place and trying to fix stuff there. Vince will start the upcycling revolution one repair at a time.

1:24 "Surely people don't return batteries if they don't last a year!" Dude, you never met my mother.

With the power bank, why not pick up one of those guitar pedal alloy cases and transfer all the doings into that and you can dremel out a window for the meter and socketry giving you a fairly robust power bank? You could even wire in one of those voltmeters that show draw etc and even a couple quid from Aliexpress one of those step up/step down variable voltage circuit boards giving you a decent 12v output that you can control. I wired one of those into my emerging ATX psu kit, I bought for £1.40 a kit from Ali, you plug the 24 pin into it giving you 2x 12v with terminals and 1 5v and 1 3.3v, I wired in a 12v into this variable step up/down board and I get now a variable .5v to 12v to a set of terminals and the thing has cost me an old ATX power supply, few pounds in Aliexpress kits and about 10 minutes work :)

Omg, do people really return used, non rechargeable batteries, excuse my crude expression but that is f'in" ridiculous, imo, just recycle them, it's a waste of energy to repost/ redeliver them; Me that Irks me! Are people that selfish to try for a refund, and that stupid to even attempt a to try and get a refund??? Sorry but WtF? Much respect for the key/ consistent teleology that continuously reoccurs throughout everything you cover, in your content, from something small like a Sony Walkman to something as large as or expensive as a Rolls Royce car, or a boat that could be lived in, you consistently present logical solutions about what can be made to work again, many thanks, you do great work, imo!

29:58 "Ooh, look at THAT." How about a firm NO! lol

Get yourself some alcohol pads to clean up that earwax. Another tip I'll pass on is I have successfully fixed water damage on circuit boards by cleaning up with alcohol pads many times. And thanks love your videos!!

I usually put the earpods into IPA or Sterillium for the night after somebody else used it.. And when I take them out, they are like new. Sometimes I do that to my own Sony bluetooth earpods if they get dirty enough.

Previous owner probably shorted out the A-port One of the most common problems with battery Banks is people don't know how to freaking use them that particular battery bank is quite famous for if you put your USB in the wrong way it can go in but it shorts out the signal and you have to put two USBS in the correct way and power it back up and then unplug the USB and plug them back in and it usually works again this is why I put stickers on all my battery Banks this way up

Vince you should sell your fixes on as some people, like myself, don't care how the thing looks as long as it now works, plus if it does go wrong again, just ask the buyer to send it back for you to do another fix vid😉

I have that battery charger and two things about it. One, the batteries that come with it don't hold their charge very long. It was very annoying. And two, you must charge the batteries 2 or 4 at a time. If not you may get an error or overheat.

Hi Vince, my name's Troy. I've been a subscriber for a while now and I absolutely love your videos, they're very thorough, professional and entertaining. I have two faulty universal remotes. One was purchased on eBay and most of the buttons don't seem to work and the other was purchased new for me by my Mum many years ago and that one seems to have a dodgy connection somewhere in the battery compartment, although I can't figure out exactly where. Would you be interested in having a look at these by any chance? I'm happy to get rid of them if not, as I now have another one. Let me know and keep up the good work. Thanks! 😁

For the cables if they are damaged cut off the bad end and use them as leads to solder onto pcbs where the socket/port areas are too badly damaged.

I was about to ask if you knew about the oled switch on the previous trying to fix video

Dear Mr. Vince. 👍👌👏 Very well done again (video and work). 2) I don't get it. Why so less views although having soooo incredibly much subscribers? What's going on here? Nowadays it seems to happen to a lot of utubers. Is it a technical problem or something that utube's policy created? I simply can't get my head around it. Please enlighten my brain. Thanks in advance. Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards, luck and especially health to all of you.

Hi Vince, love the videos please keep them coming, do you buy your boxes from amazon or ebay as I am interested in expanding my electronic knowledge? Just don't want to be scammed. Pat.

All those rechargeable batteries will come in handy for game consoles with wireless controllers and for flashlights during power outage