FAULTY PANDORA'S Box from eBay

FAULTY PANDORA'S Box from eBay | Can I FIX It?

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Жыл бұрын

I paid £58 for this generic clone of a Pandora's Box from of on off eBay. It was listed as broken, powers on, but joystick, lights and buttons don't work!
Let's try and fix it!
Hope you enjoy!
Steve
PS. I'm not an expert in repairs at all. I do this for fun, and it may not be the best or safest way to go about repairing broken stuff. I'm pretty good at melting plastic though. Please don't copy me - I'm an idiot.
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@TheVintageApplianceEmporium Жыл бұрын

"It's bent, it's not straight and someone has been too vigorous with the knob" - summed me up perfectly 😅

@streetlightingcollector9343 Жыл бұрын

Ayo wtf 🤨🤨🤨📸

@BelladonnaPup Жыл бұрын

😂 nice.

@rich8761 4 ай бұрын

ooooh matron

@kiphakes Жыл бұрын

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

@StezStixFix Жыл бұрын

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! 😁

@BuyitFixit Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

@@BuyitFixit I used to have them in my house.. had 15 at my best / worst 😅

@BuyitFixit Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Tim_3100 Жыл бұрын

@@spikey911usasuppose when leaf switches are hard to find sanwa is next best option but see your view

@KiraSlith Жыл бұрын

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.

@PoutingTrevor Жыл бұрын

'I don't know much about anything.' Oh Steve, you are my spirit animal.

@TheCod3r Жыл бұрын

You've really opened up Pandora's box on this one Stez 😂

@StezStixFix Жыл бұрын

😂😂

@phoenragon Жыл бұрын

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!

@lookitskazzy Жыл бұрын

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!

@BigEpinstriping Жыл бұрын

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.

@JomasterTheSecond Жыл бұрын

You turn it on and immediately one starts hearing Eurobeat. Already this is good.

@nettack Жыл бұрын

Steve, these fixes are getting really advanced and complicated. I hope not only your audience sees you improving. This went into Vince territory

@jasonpoletta1797 Жыл бұрын

This is one of your best videos. Fixing mechanical along with electrical is awesome.

@Crispy_Bee Жыл бұрын

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.

@infin1ty850 Жыл бұрын

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!

@StezStixFix Жыл бұрын

Yey! Glad it's now working and you get the early access! 👍

@infin1ty850 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@videoaccount4323 Жыл бұрын

@@StezStixFix did you need to solder anything to get them showing up again?

@patrickwrx Жыл бұрын

I love that the sneeze made it into the final cut.

@jumpingmanjim Жыл бұрын

It's good that Steve was able to buy a new house with his patreon money.

@StezStixFix Жыл бұрын

😂🤣

@skunk2010 Жыл бұрын

Dolls house you mean😂😂😂

@seanking7092 Жыл бұрын

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

@MGeniusNinja Жыл бұрын

The new studio in the new house! Well done Stez, once again great content! Thanks a lot

@StezStixFix Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Much appreciated 😍

@roy-wg7dz Жыл бұрын

i miss the settee

@AlwaysAwesome001 Жыл бұрын

I need to set up a Patreon account for my next house! 😳

@zillzultraboy Жыл бұрын

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!

@bobskibob8870 Жыл бұрын

Just watched my first Stez video and I was thoroughly entertained. Thank you, sir.

@jasonpistorio3651 Жыл бұрын

I love the longer videos and the sneeze made the whole thing better 😂

@techrestoread Жыл бұрын

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 👍

@sdjmchattie Жыл бұрын

Loved the multiple fixes here. Good as new. I would love to see it when you get the switches replaced!

@xXtelepatheticXx Жыл бұрын

The stare after you said "bit to vigorous with the knob" priceless

@mikehalford2356 Жыл бұрын

I can’t stop watching your videos Steve! You’ve inspired me, thank you 👍🏼

@AppNasty Жыл бұрын

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.

@yaminogame8925 Жыл бұрын

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

@BrunakoPAO Жыл бұрын

1st time winning at a game 😅 congrats Steve !!

@StezStixFix Жыл бұрын

🤣 I got beat in Round 2!

@BrunakoPAO Жыл бұрын

@@StezStixFix hahaha I knew you were hiding stuff from us 🤣

@johnmuff1348 Жыл бұрын

Your a genius for fixing things thats why i enjoy your videos

@jeffredd9965 5 ай бұрын

Appreciate the musical effort. Top notch. The repairs are appreciated as well as Gordon

@RickSlick7270 Жыл бұрын

gosh this one was so satisfying to watch - wow - best vid yet - thanks Steve

@chrisj2848 Жыл бұрын

Great to see your new shop/studio/fixing- place Steve! 👍 😁

@StezStixFix Жыл бұрын

Cheers Chris! 👍

@NowInAus Жыл бұрын

Nice. Thought we were going to see you break a nail getting the button out. Thanks for brightening my day.

@JSmith19858 Жыл бұрын

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.

@obsidianpanther Жыл бұрын

Love the new setup at the new house! And the 100k button from KZfaq! Congrats!!! You deserve it :)

@OBMStudios Жыл бұрын

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!!

@StezStixFix Жыл бұрын

Cheers OBM! Much appreciated 👍

@Eythor20 Жыл бұрын

Just wanted to let you know i enjoy the channel so much that I’ve been binge watching every video for about two weeks 😂 probably seen everything 3 or 4 times

@MyRetroWatches Жыл бұрын

That was a great watch. Love the dry humour. Solid!

@jonnylonewolf1112 Жыл бұрын

Awesome fix there Steve love your work

@adrianjohn8767 Жыл бұрын

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

@daviddavidson1372 Жыл бұрын

Your video's are as funny as they are informative. Love each one.. trying to catch up on all your video's

@suleimanabutaha7935 Жыл бұрын

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.

@mattymatt022000 Жыл бұрын

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 🇺🇸

@Cobalt-Jester 11 ай бұрын

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

@BloedEnBodem Жыл бұрын

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!

@james-5560 Жыл бұрын

Great episode, nice fix and loved the production and the music

@brandoncolemire4220 Жыл бұрын

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!

@evilmissf Жыл бұрын

My source of weekend entertainment, keep up the good work x 😊

@Ste_365 Жыл бұрын

Great effort Steve!

@nbaua3454 Жыл бұрын

❤ 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

@mini_worx 5 ай бұрын

Your enthusiasm is energetic 😊

@Cablesmith Жыл бұрын

Wonderful to see the silver play button in the background 👏🏼 well deserved

@GameRaveTV Жыл бұрын

Happy new repair room! Great fix :D

@joaocpneves1 Жыл бұрын

superglue and baking soda mixed makes a strong cement that could help give sturdiness to the broken board

@Stonecold724 Жыл бұрын

This is such a fun repair channel.

@daisyblonde87 Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for singing a snippet of “Fill My Little World” by The Feeling! My fave band! Made my evening.

@Nimmbin Жыл бұрын

Great fix. Great video thanks for sharing 😁

@SparksNZeros Жыл бұрын

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.

@trevorworrall1226 5 ай бұрын

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 !

@rurichan6009 Жыл бұрын

love your videos as always will you do a followup on the pandora with new switches and so ?

@andrewweller5119 4 ай бұрын

i find your videos incredibly hypnotic 😀

@jefferystone1 Жыл бұрын

"in-built speaker" a.k.a. "built-in speaker" - enjoyable as always.

@retrig202 Жыл бұрын

"Someone's been a bit too vigorous.... with the knob". LOL. It's always a great day and a joy when you post your videos.

@heatonparkmassive Жыл бұрын

I did enjoy this one Steve, cheers 🙂

@epicaction1755 3 ай бұрын

Great vid. Getting addicted to these, so watching some of the older ones. Dissolve some plexiglass in acetone, for the strongest superglue ever

@SixtyDoesStuff Жыл бұрын

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....

@StezStixFix Жыл бұрын

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!

@piau9000 Жыл бұрын

It's probably rage induced.😂

@mattymatt022000 Жыл бұрын

I was thinking it fell off a table and landed face down. Or someone at night stepped on it. Could also be rage.

@mokkorista Жыл бұрын

It was an attack of The Salty Monster 💀

@ovalteen4404 Жыл бұрын

If it hit the floor upside down, that would likely do something horrible to the joystick.

@user-te1le7ck6b Жыл бұрын

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 👍

@tpg6386 Жыл бұрын

Love the new digs!

@lindaorr1805 Жыл бұрын

Got to hand it to you, as usual you find or come up with that weird piece of technology that I had long forgotten or one I never looked at before 😎✌

@Rob_III Жыл бұрын

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!

@Bloke-in-Stoke 5 ай бұрын

oooo... really good point. Well done. Cheers 🍺

@djevrek Жыл бұрын

love the new camera setup 👍

@joshholbrooks1181 Жыл бұрын

Good fix enjoyable to watch😊

@rebug5614 Жыл бұрын

Really good that! Watched a few of your videos & enjoyed them as well, liked & subscribed, SOLID 😉👍🏻

@shady4422 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff as always bud

@foster86 Жыл бұрын

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.

@jimjimster6344 Жыл бұрын

Your videos make me simply happy.

@Nobe_Oddy Жыл бұрын

EXCELLENT WORK!!!!

@simonolphin Жыл бұрын

Hey Steve, the KZfaq play button has changed you. 🤣🤣 New view? Love your stuff Steve! And Dave!

@markray3263 4 ай бұрын

I was delighted that you chose to repair the joystick. Cyanoacrylate and baking soda can achieve wonders in repairing structural elements.

@DTGuitarTech Жыл бұрын

Fantastic repair!

@acalavidyaraja Жыл бұрын

nice fix, Steve

@virgildeklerk Жыл бұрын

Great video and fix. Love those arcade machines. By looking at the damage the previous owner did i think he thought it was a stupid game too 😂😂😂

@bman8363 Жыл бұрын

Hi Steve. I love your work mate. Solid. Add baking soda to super glue for stronger bond.

@gregyotz777 Жыл бұрын

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.

@Snagz777 Жыл бұрын

You are the best fixy type youtuber.

@Enjoymentboy 6 ай бұрын

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.

@bryanmceneaney Жыл бұрын

Ha!! New to the channel but impressed by the PM Dawn-esque rap. Nice😁

@Explore531 Жыл бұрын

thats so cool great work you have done since Id watched your video on this Im planing pick one up at Amazon hopefully they sell that, I wanna play Ms Pacman on it

@drakekay6577 Жыл бұрын

I love watching your video's dude! :D

@SoundToxin 6 ай бұрын

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.

@OtaconEmmerich Жыл бұрын

Joysticks/buttons are easy enough to replace but GJ repairing that PCB board.

@presidentskroob522 Жыл бұрын

As ever, awesome video! But seriously, the rap at the start was 🔥 if there was a soundtrack for this vid I would def buy it!

@BuyitFixit Жыл бұрын

Great job Steve 👍Nice👍

@BomberMan-2012- Жыл бұрын

It was stupidly nice, great work per usual good sir

@Peter_A1466 Жыл бұрын

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.

@ncross1857 Жыл бұрын

Graphite powder with super glue is even stronger, though I'm not sure if it would present connectivity issues when working around circuitry.

@Bloke-in-Stoke 5 ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

@@Bloke-in-Stokeold pieces of solder wick can also be very good for bridging wider tracks over a cracked board

@Bloke-in-Stoke 5 ай бұрын

@@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 🍺

@JT-bb9qe Жыл бұрын

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!!

@D...........33 Ай бұрын

£50 😂😂😂😂love see you fix things out the bin. Keep doing it.😊

@dannypatrick9361 Жыл бұрын

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

@eggstu Жыл бұрын

"Of course by nice I mean stupid". I love this channel

@rjtholl Жыл бұрын

Great channel! thanks for the content. It was not what i was looking for now BUT! If anyone smashes the pandoras box im working on now i may have to come back to this! Cheers Steve!