Damnit, Im American and I dont see random electronics on the streets!

@@qwertykeyboard5901 lmao

Well, in a lot of places that could just be trash and e-waste from other countries.

@@qwertykeyboard5901 you'd actually be surprised how many people lose electonics. In the last year I found a couple tablets old Iphone and a nice watch

Americans absolutely do that all the time. Welcome to waste culture. One of the absolute MOST American things to do, second only to mass shootings and legalized bribery, waste culture. Americans fix almost nothing. They'll throw away 1000 dollar iPhones because the screen is scratched. It's considered perfectly normal to buy a new phone or car every few years. So much so that you're looked down on, actively mocked, if you don't have the latest and greatest. Well this specific video doesn't appear to be in the US, that's no surprise, since this video that he's showing is a fraud to begin with.

Exactly

I don't think that comparing animal abuse and shitty content is fair-

Welcome to the rice field boys.

@@Perrovoladorquevuela i can see where you're coming from, but i've seen and used this a lot. I think it's just giving an example using the *WAY* worse version of the "more mundane" wrong act (or whatever). Like saying: "it's the same type of lying as those trying to get away with murder"

Probably the fact that the natural response for coming across a dog with his head stuck in wheel spokes is the quickly get it out instead of taking out your phone to film yourself doing it is what makes it feel unnatural

Okay troll

Love the power of bots

I'd follow that channel

exactly what a troll would say

What a silly troll smh.

That explains why the big tech companies always tell you not to expose your electronics to water. They want us to give them more money for RAM instead of getting more of it for free 😒

You're hilarious😅

It's the ram that downloaded itself

Fact

Exactly! If you dry the board completely, it works. I myself washed a PCI card last month.

nice seeing you here :)

Now try getting it back (jk lol. I dont think thats funny :(. I suck at sarcasm)

im so happy for you

Lmao

lol

I have seen such trickery used in videos varying from tool restaurant all the way to bushcraft. Maybe that mean one's niche has gone mainstream?

Your last sentence in this comment is very hilarious. Imagine destroying a brand new device just to throw it to the trashcan and titled it as the "restoration"

So so many doing it, I had all the channels suggested a few months ago, at least the idiots make it obvious from the thumbnail most times

@@sihamhamda47 Yes, they certainly do it. They earn more money making that video than what they paid for the device.

To be honest I wouldn't mind a little bit of staging but this one is clearly over the top. There is no way in hell this GBA is turning on after what it allegedly had gone through without at least cleaning the inside and letting it dry for 1-2 days. But the worst for me is that old piece of foam. Why would you allegedly use that again if you could use something else in stead or in this case buy new parts anywhere. Which I wouldn't mind as well if it was made clear the old parts were beyond repair instead of hitting screws with a blowtorch which obviously not will powder coat them black. This reminds me on an PC restoration video I've been watching for 25 minutes and in the end the Core 2 Duo machine booted as an Core i5. I literally feeled robbed 25 minutes of my life that I wasted watching that ..... For me only trashing an working unit would be a more aweful thing to do for an video than that cheating and wasting the time of others.

He picked up a rusty one at the thrift store. It's nothing clever or complicated.

@@princeofcupspoc9073 so that means he is restoring it but him finding it isn’t real?

Odd Tinkering is one of my favorite authentic restoration channels. OT proceeds to each step with caution and care. Guys like him inspire me to do my own restorations... if only I weren't such a klutz.

@@hooviridis8388 I’m a MASSIVE klutz, trust me. My hands have a baseline tremor (genetic, I believe) so I’m no surgeon. I started with my old DS, and with all of the stuff OT does in the back of my head, it actually worked! I figure, if you’re looking to try it out, practicing on functional junk is the right place to start. That way you’ll know if you screwed up! If you can build Lego (or even better-Meccano) you can, in theory, refurbish electronics. Like that army reserve ad: If you have money, you can build Lego; If you can build Lego, you can build Meccano; If you can build Meccano, you can build a WHOLE COMPUTER FROM SCRATCH

@@hooviridis8388 odd tinkering got me into restoration as well, plus the vids are relaxing 😂

I'm glad the general consensus here is that Odd Tinkering is legit because I really do enjoy their videos as well. And I hadn't noticed anything suspicious about them myself, but seeing the fraud stuff get exposed makes a person worry.

@@stopasking968 at WORST the lies would only be about where OT gets his junk from to restore. The techniques are all legit, especially after digging around online for the tools. This video just doesn’t hold a candle to the quality or informative-ness, let alone the Totally Legit setup. I think I just caught luck on which restoration channel I stumbled across first…

Rusty plastic 😂

mf is the CEO of recycling, have some respect

Right? His shoddy spray job with a flashy red becomes a dull dark red, perfect coverage. What a champ

You saw right through that too, eh? (I'll show myself out now lol)

Many restoration videos are obviously fake

reminds me of a similar one that i watched. this guys opens up a HDD, then decides to clean it with water and brush cus' there was some mud on it then puts all back together. and somehow it perfectly runs windows 7. bro.

The rescue puppy goes from a beagle to a Labrador lol.

Did the fake animal rescue organization also made this fake restoration video? Or are they different organization

@@theBen_HA may not be the same group but the videos originate from the Far East like this one.

@@99Vood99 bruh what you're comparing people making fake restoration videos to people drowning dogs in old car oil and how does making a fake restoration video involve you in a "criminal organization"

@@theBen_HA It's so called internet mafia

Imagine how much money you could save that way!

I have found a woman on the side of the road in Thailand, I have restored her and now she owns me, worst mistake in my life.

@@chongtak yikes...... Noted, use ebay.

did you see that one with the motorbike and side car? Like really, you found a rusted out motorbike and side car covered in grass but the tyres still had air in them.

And they always have the titles that are like “Restoring nintendo xbox playstation gameboy handheld gaming console xbox 360”

there is an easy solution for your plague........ stop watching these videos :)

Yeah was getting hints that this was a bit staged when I saw the battery cover. It wasnt until I read some comments that this whole channel is staged on "finding old stuff to restore". After looking at that bike restoration having it covern with "rust" all over is a bit silly

he should have disassembled it first.

Absolutely. the screen would be absolutely shagged

Yeah, I don't recall there ever being a battery cover at the beginning. Where did it come from?

If it were a really simple reflective LCD glass connected by a rubber strip, that would probably survive being submerged for years, but I only ever saw 1 (ONE) complex backlit screen work after being completely submerged, and that was a gigaset cordless phone that fell in a swamp, but I also gave it multiple months to dry, then disassembled the backlight assembly, submerged it, the LCD glass and the keypad contacts in IPA and scrubbed all the dirt off with a toothbrush before even attempting to use it. It actually still works well enough and sits on my desk at this very moment.

Prolly never saw rust in his life😂😂🤣

Not to mention the perfect sheen on this supposedly painted shell. Nuts how bad these get

@@NovaMaster375 The shinyness from the red shell screamed 3rd party shell. It completely reminded me of that DS M where they put the innards of an original DS into a DS Lite.

I noticed that as well! I’m glad that l’m not the only one who noticed that, paint shouldn’t be that translucent at all, especially on thick plastic like that!

Nah that's definitely a painted shell at the end. At 11:10 the finish makes it obvious. It's so thick and uneven. That same shot also shows off the aftermarket A and H buttons though, with telltale off center lettering and in a different don't than the originals.

Exactly, I am just checking whether someone else noticed this;)

You would be so happy to see the end product though.

😂

Lmao that was a good one

Only thing is, be prepared to get covered in dirty and rust, before he can do the “restoration”.

Some of those fake animal “rescue” videos actually kill the “before” animal. You can tell because the “after” is not the same one. I wish someone could identify those people, beat the living shit out of them, film the rescue personnel saving them, and then show a completely different person (face blurred to protect the actor) come up and thank them.

This is the world we've created. A world where most people feel that they are a failure in life if they can't bring about some form or element of fame. It's sad, but it's getting worse. 🤔

@@nomad90125 they’re probably doing it more for the money than the fame. If they’re exposed, they lose the fame, but they keep the money.

These are people trying to feed KZfaq content farms as quickly as possible. And either they or the people directing them monitor what kinds of details the almighty algorithm prefers for recommending videos far and wide, which they try to replicate. Seems like this “stumbling across something spontaneously” conceit has been identified as a big plus for successful uploads.

Oh boy... Don't even get me started on those "animal rescue" vids! Those people are absolute scum.

And it’s always strange dirt that is orange or green

@@zero9112 are you sure it’s green “dirt”…? 🥶

And also the title says like "Restoring gameboy 3ds" when on the thumbnail is actually a nintendo DS lite

@@ImNamo_ That’s the best part. They expect us to believe they restored it when they don’t even know what they’re working on… It’d be like me saying “restoring 50’s caddy” when the thumbnail is actually an 82’ GMC van….. Yeah if they can’t even get that right, I’m sure they haven’t the faintest clue what’s on the inside. Probably why they submerge them in water and scrape them clean with knives and soap…..

@@Kathrynerius Yep, I see one of these videos about the "restauration" of a 30 year old PC but you can see that the "30 yo PC" is in reality a 2012 3rd gen I-core machine.

The very reason I scrolled down to the comments. You can submerge just about any electronics in water as long as they're completely dry before you run power through them. I once got a cracking deal on a tube amp (Laney) because the guy left it outside overnight and assumed the rain had fucked it. I've still got it today.

@@anneominous7172 Providing you use clean distilled and de-ionised water you can power up electronics in water. There are some computer systems that are submerged in tanks of water to keep them ultra cool. Water is a good electrical insulator so long as it has no dissolved impurities.

This works well for keyboards, though I would absolutely enforce 24 hours of dry time even after the heated dry in the dishwasher. This will not end well with very hard water or abrasive dishwasher soaps! I actually have an in-line water filter for my tap and dishwasher because the water is so bad here.

I've cleaned motherboars with scrubbing bubbles plus distilled water and it worked fine.

I’m assuming you skip the detergent. That stuff is extremely caustic.

I've literally seen cars not only look nice and new but actually change models and year.

"Translucent" is the word you're looking for

@@Whom1337 The Boys reference 😱

It's probably been in mud or water for years no way it would work without a board replacement, the restoration will cost the same s a new one

He must have used some kind of solvent

@@alexramirez4693 nah you could tell he used s different board it didn't look like the original one with the rust

I think this one is heavily misunderstood u can look it up on youtube, there are videos where people fully drown a gaming pc and it still works after its dry, electronic devices only get destroyed by water if the power is on. When theres no electricity going everything is fine, you just have to ensure that its dry when turning it on again....

It didn't, they record it working first, then trash it and make a restoration video - in the end the working device has been recorded prior to the restoration.😂

not long ago i got a snes controller with dirt caked into it

Must be a bug in the code

You better hope Japanese Dracula isnt around, he really could use some extra direct from his homeland.

I ordered a lot of broken PS2 on ebay and found one had a bag of expired weed in the expansion slot. Another one had a throwing knife in it. And the strangest thing I found inside was a huge dead hornet.

I bought a "broken" N64 off ebay a while back that just had a comical amount of straw and dirt in it, fixing it was literally just giving it a good clean and getting the straw out of the cartridge slot

Not really the salts in water can cause rusting

I think you missed the point here. Those videos are fake from the very start. They throw away one piece of Tech and at the end they swap it out to something brand new. Nobody really cares about the water thing. It's like those fake adds for laundry detergent. They never actually wash the clothes. They throw it away and swap them out. Same concept here

@@requiemagent3014 i think you don't understand what i wrote, there are fake videos yes but not all of them are and i can say that in 90% of the time everything works fine, electronics are not so sensible as you think. Many people believe that. My Cellar was under water for 2 days and my PC was there too and after cleaning and some days to let it dry, everything worked fine. I get your point but not everything is fake.

@@requiemagent3014 sorry for my bad english

@@lordsheldor You aren't the sharpest tool in the shed are you. Yest distilled water is perfectly fine for electronics when you make sure the water has evaporated completely. But nobody does that. Just use isopropyl alcohol like everyone else. It's a lot more effective way to clean motherboards etc... But again not the point. From the original Gameboy this person found on the street is barely anything left at the end product. Around 75% are swapped out to aftermarket parts from china. How is this a restoration?

@@requiemagent3014 You're not so bright yourself I don't think. All the dude was saying is that dunking unpowered electronics in regular water/mud doesn't kill them as long as everything is completely dry when powering up again. And he's right.

I noticed the same. However, the shell at the end does indeed look spray painted, maybe they just put the replacement in the sun for show.

@@kyx5631 that shell looks pretty normal for cheap shitty Chinese shells

@@kyx5631 Yeah, that makes it even weirder

Did you watch the video? He's spray painting it right here. 5:50

@Martin Tubewatch So it was spray painted and then still swapped out?

Odd tinkering is awesome, that guy introduced me to the whole world of restoration videos. It's extra funny if they break something during reassembly every now and then, makes it more authentic.

theres also long island retro gaming whos done some repairs to retro consoles and has had to donor parts from other consoles and literally says its donor and all that

Love odd tinkering

It’s Naptha. NHA is clear on the label.

What do you mean, anything can be fixed by bathing it in a bucket of Cool Blue Gatorade from the Chronostream! Sends it right back to the day it was made.

Agree! My favorite restoration channel

Odd Tinkering is the Primitive Technology of restoration videos, he is a fucking chad

Pure and satisfying ASMR my friend.

no plastic can’t rust

He’s one of the only restoration channels I actually watch, because even if it is fake, he’s doing it in a way that I can actually believe.

Nah it’s the same shell,I can tell by the shit paint job they did

I'd do that, it would annoy me knowing that the inside isn't coloured, plus it makes for a satisfying video.

@@onemoreweirdo207 I'd be more worried about any peeling inside the device shorting something out.

@@xinx-fn8973 I thought he might've swapped for aftermarket case as well until I saw that crappy amateur paint @11:11

I think he got a new red case and hit it with paint or clear on the front to make it look more authentic (to look like it was painted) but the close-ups of the tiny stand-offs are even red inside and there's no way to hit those with a rattle can, or the little holes would be plugged up.

Not true Most industrial Chemical cleaners for PCBs are water based. if you wash a board with DI.water there is nothing in it to corrode anything. The damage from water is what else is in it other than Hydrogen and oxygen. That's why Salt water is especially bad! The worst is Something like Coke or Pepsi That will eat track in a few hours once it gets under the solder resist layer. If you have a board that is water damaged by fresh water the main damage is done by parts of the circuit still being powered by batteries or back up batteries or power being applied whilst still wet. With water ingress the board needs to be thoroughly dried ASaP but usually you'd wash the board off with IPA to flush out the water then dry using warm air. BTW I spent 15 years testing board contamination in a Lab using Ionic SIR and CAF methods, accelerated the ageing process using climatic chambers. To grown dendrites tin whiskers and salts. I might know a bit more than you on this one! As for Tossing out PCs not saying you're wrong just my experience is totally different I actually genuinely can't remember the last time I actually paid for a Pc or a Mac. And although my hardware isn't the latest 7th and 8th gen i7s with 16gb and 32gb of ram because they've been built from thrown away parts isn't to shabby for nothing other than a hour or two of my time and a rummage through a box of spares that where also free. More often than not in my experience Pcs are thrown away due to Age primarily and often have nothing wrong other than being slow. Those with faults are usually PSU, HDD or Ram failure or the thing is blue screening because a card isn't correctly seated. CPU and Board failures are relatively rare. IMO 99% of people have no idea about what's inside their PC so when It goes wrong a lot of people will just toss it and get a new one.Especially if it 2 years old or older. when I go to my local tip to throw things away there are always loads of modern Gamer type PCs in the skip you are now no longer allowed to ask to buy them as you once could.( I say Buy they let you take half a dozen for £10) But apparently now there are safety laws that prevent them allowing discarded electrical goods to be anything but crushed. It's quite sickening to See complete PCs with CPUs and coolers, Graphics cards, SSDs and PSUs still in place, through the see through gamers case sides Most of these PC have likely had little to no diagnosis done on them and I'd bet that on average for every 3 you took from the bin you could make 2 working systems ( assuming compatible hardware of course) but instead they get rolled with a giant spiked metal drums crushed and sent to a metal recycler.

Facts

Damn

Heck, I've put stuff in the dishwasher before (without detergent obviously) A good spray with some de-greaser suitable for electronics and a round in the dishwasher cleans boards up very nicely. Did it when I was fixing up old arcade monitor chassis.

watching him react like water is the worst thing for a piece of tech with no current going through it kind of frustrated me. as if that alone would brick a device

Yeah, I cleaned a few motherboards with water. Just make sure it's completely dry before turning it on. lol

I have cleaned motherboards in nice hot water, as long as they're dried well (i usually use a hairdryer and compressed air), water is a great way to clean them up.

Many of these restoration videos are certainly fake though!

Those gameboys were durable..

@@nillman unlike tech today, just breaks for no reason whatsoever.

@@Beam626 it breaks so you'll have to buy another one.

My sister had an iPod she lost somewhere and winter came and went and then we found it in the back yard when the snow was melting. Brought it inside still half frozen in a block of dirty ice and it worked for several years after

@@HugeESmalls yup old technology was built to last.

I just like the electronics submerged in dirty ass mud and water, and somehow a little bit of scrubbing gets all of that out from inbetween the layers of ribbon cables and the layers of the screen...... hahaha

@@SSXVegeta A neat trick for sure. *Stupid mobile keyboard.

It's the same brand paint that Mr. Q from Die another day used to make the car invisible. Just thin it and apply 10 coats and the car becomes invisible.

@@Wingedmechanic now that would be awesome.

i rewatched that part three times before i scrolled down to find you'd already posted about it, but your dead right, that original case was too dark and opaque to let light through

It’s surprisingly easy

When the object they are "repairing" looks really dirty and purposely broken or they keep finding high priced items in the same spot like it's a gold mine.

Even before this video I could tell when these videos were fake.

There are so many of these fake restorations, and they're always the same. Randomly somehow find a tech item that is dirty but works, with an LCD that has clearly been wet, yet somehow works without defects (anyone that repairs any tech item knows how the tiniest amount of IPA can find find itself under an LCD). I remember a psp one that had a faulty screen in that wasn't even a psp LCD, but in the next scene when it was working, it was. They're so fake if you know what you're looking at.

​@@ShiningTaiga yeah, it's called ✨nitpicking✨

And the few times I've seen real guns being "restored", they've almost always either ruined the gun restoring it or even made it unsafe to fire.

@@Dover78 thats were the fix part comes into play replacing some firearm parts with new ones like firing pin or plates

@teebles give some examples plsssss

@@Miguel_Moran_2005 gun bad then gun good. america

@@Miguel_Moran_2005 channel "Backyard Ballistics" is not fake maybe? he shoots afterwards

@@null643 Is it even people being gullible. Or just assuming it's real because it doesnt even occur to them to think someone would film fake acts of kindness as they've never encountered someone that morally bankrupt

I personally could never relate to someone who would feel the need to record good deeds. Nor share about them on social media. Those moments are so special, wherein, as I was told by an elder I helped once, you are “reminded not in… the wholesomeness of humanity… as that doesn’t exist… but that there are indeed humans with good hearts still.”

_You don't see me creating a damn documentary when I drop some money for someone_ You don't? Then how can you afford to drop money for other people? I have around 843.218 videos on my channel. All documentaries ~25 secs long about me giving someone else some money. Granted after monetization the ads are longer than the actual vids but...how am I suppose to become rich and famous without exploiting other people? Anyway... *give a like and hit that subscribe button* if you wanna see me giving a starving kid some of my weekend leftovers! 🤟😇

Well, how about mrbeast then?

Usally you are right. Tho some people like Mr Beast (tho a minority of people) who use the monetary gain earned by doing a nice thing to then further do nice things (like the food bank he runs which have proper fridges and such to give people in need all kinds of food, likely paid by the money he makes on his channels)

You mean less humble, and that's not a good thing.

I was about to say the same thing. There's no way he's experienced with restoring electronics. Another red flag was that he refused to provide any evidence of those parts being aftermarket. We're supposed to, "just trust him".

I once restored an old tower PC that had been sitting out for a long time. When I got it inside I started smelling honey! Looking inside I found a bee's nest! After removing it and washing everything it worked!

@@JohnDoe-sp3dc The buttons are definitely different. The 'A' and 'B' are in different positions before and after. 2:20 vs 11:11 Not that replacing broken parts is a deal breaker for me.

Yeah, don’t know anything about restoration, but I don’t see anything wrong with the original video (aside from the screws part). Some parts were used again like apparently the motherboard and the shell, but some parts were bought like beyond saving parts and the back cover. Or is getting new parts aside from the original a no-no in restoration or something?

@@primetime645 I don't think so, but from what I've seen it is a good practice to tell the audience when you are replacing a part.

Yeah those videos really are awful. At least this doesn't involve (sometimes appalling) animal cruelty

EXACTLY!! Those phony “animal rescue” video creators should be drawn and quartered!! KZfaq HAS to do a better job deleting those channels. It’s absolutely disgusting to hurt innocent animals for VIEWS!! I truly hope I run into one of those guys some day.

I came here to say the exact same thing I'm sure people have seen the Red dust channel 🤣

I absolutely haven't been recommended any restoration videos like that. I follow this channel but it doesn't cross over like that for me. I had no idea people were making fake restoration videos. I watched LTT restore a Game Gear though. But nothing fake.

My favorite was the guy walking across a frozen lake and found one buried IN THE ICE, and was somehow covered in mud… “Oh I just happened to find this here” my ass, lol. It Yeah it magically worked after a bath, lmao.

OMG! They couldn't even get the same color cases! 🤣

I was just looking at that... painting a purple case with red spray paint should render the case fairly opaque, that was either a red case with no paint or some kind of clear coat.

Even if they could the effort probably isn't worth it for them. They obviously aren't doing it out of passion, which means it's for the money, which means they're probably better off doing what they did because it required less effort. A few aftermarket parts aren't that much of a cost investment when it could take days to repair the thing for real.

Yep water is fine. An alcohol bath in 99% solution will dry it out quickly

another thing to watch for is corrosion

@@stardoge6624 as long as you dry it properly immediately after washing it, there's really no chance of corrosion from washing a pcb.

True

Yeah but that screen is an entirely different beast, the LCD layers don't like being submerged

I mean sure.. it can "handle" water. But if you dont then clean it with mineral oil or isopropyl.....? lol "Liquid damage" is never really what causes catastrophic damage.. that only jacks up things like... the LCD panel immediately. After that when it dries, the minerals left behind cause corrosion and rust to the solder and components. Also, simply rinsing or soaking it after doesnt really do the trick, especially in boards that have heat shields. I'd call this video complete BS, because you cannot just soak a board in water, let it dry and it somehow work again. Certainly not the LCD panel. I've had macbooks come in with ruined screens just because the customer sprayed it with windex. So it doesnt even have to be submerged to ruin them. The board though.. corrosion will set it the second its dried, with or without power injected.

​@@mmz12 shure, long time in the moisture and humidity will kill the board. But just a dip in Water for the movie may not harm it

@@mmz12 Mh, i had also my bad experiences with cleaned flatscreens, whenever water was soaked between the layers.

@@mmz12 What about Laboratory grade ultrapure water?

@@chriswiggins1985 I.. Guess that could work? For maybe specifically PCB cleaning. I just don't know why anything else would be used, when the generally accepted cleaner known to have no issue is iso. lol Its safe, cleans well and dries almost instantly. Its the whole reinventing the wheel thing or "if it aint broke, don't fix it" situation. Regardless, that LCD will absolutely not survive that. Not even using prescribed cleaners. Just a few drops (or a splash in any liquid) will cause a weird multidimensional appearance. You see this with DIY iPad repairs and devices that have the glass fused to the display. Typically, heat is used to soften adhesive, but another great way is a dropper of high % iso. You just drip that along the edge and slice right through the adhesive. Sometimes, people get a little too excited and it soaks into the display, getting in between the numerous layers of the deflector, diffusors, backlight, etc. Best case, you have a trippy, headache of a display. Worse case it will completely fail, as it would with submersion if its not at the very least water resistant.

Exactly what I was thinking when I saw the light shine through!

It’s KZfaq. Who gives a fuck. Videos are made for entertainment. Don’t like it don’t watch it.

@@DWFWrestle Still doesn't mean you can scam or lie freely

@@Tech-187 it’s not scamming 😂. What do you think tv shows and movies do bud? All videos are made for entertainment purposes. Doesn’t matter if they’re fake or real.

@@DWFWrestle Lemme guess, you scam people too.

@@ExtremeWreck If you don’t know shit about content creation then don’t open your mouth it’s that simple y’all are making yourself look more stupid then you already do.,

You shouldn't even be firing up a car in that circunstance. There won't be any oil inside it or it will run with water in it and ruin the engine.

@@kevincampos3797 "Whoooosh"

@@beltanewalk8797 This exchange just cracked me right up 😂🤣😂🤣

@@vihaanreyansh6244 You can't beat a good laugh 😂