vince condensed ebay down to one sentence .... "ebay isnt alway the best place to buy, but if i want faulty stuff , its ideal" . Should be ebay´s new slogan

My Mate Vince's "LASER" Hair Removal Service - "No job too hairy - no LASER too powerful..." Fantastic work!

"Imma try and fix it" *IMMEDIATELY OBLITERATES THE BOX*

Just got home from work, made some coffee and Vince has uploaded an hour long video. My afternoon keeps getting better and better. Thank you for your in depth videos, you have inspired me to fix first before replacing my broken items. You are awesome!!!

Other than fun past repairs, your videos, TronicsFix videos have inspired me. I've fixed consoles, phones, tv's, and this week I repaired a 2008 model washer and dryer. Best 100 spent. We needed a new set and they both work great.

My favourite gameconsole of all time, so underrated

I did the same exact process repairing my garbage bin GameCube a few months ago, including pot tuning and rail greasing. It's such a rewarding feeling when you get it to read a game again. Edit-forgot to mention, if you want to waste a couple hours, completely disassemble the outer shell and disk cover and try to put it back together again, it's an enormous pain.

Just a tip, the GameCube's hub is also an "eject" button. It saves you from having to rip the discs out. Keep up the great videos!

I love working on Dreamcast and Gamecubes. The engineering in those machines is just amazing. It's good enough that I sometimes feel a craving for opening one of them up just to get my hands into it again.

Great job! Not what I expected - hard to believe that plastic piece came unclipped on the inside! Yes, 0.3K is 300ohms. They will nearly always be very similar from factory - maybe someone adjusted your other Game Cube previously, or maybe this one had been adjusted previously. But it is possible that they were set differently at factory too. The mistake lots of people make on the net when talking about "how best to adjust these" is basically incorrect and inaccurate. ie. They talk about an ideal resistance value to set the pot (variable resistor - hence VR prefix on the board) to, but often they are talking about when making an adjustment to get the unit to read burned discs, and it makes the assumption that the laser is good as new and behaves identically to the unit they took their resistance from. For that most part that can work, but is it not the proper way to adjust the laser voltage and as a result the laser could be a % off its ideal value. I've got a follow up to my recent GC video coming soon, and I will probably swap the laser out at that point too and perhaps talk about some of these things. When the laser diode weakens it wont affect the resistance measure on the pot! Slightly increasing the voltage on a dieing laser can bring a little life back, but its already on its "failure curve / coming to the end of its life expectency" and too much of an increase only accelerates its demise.

Interesting that this was a case of you almost knowing too much and thinking you had the problem solved. Whereas if you had noticed how loose those black clips were, you could have pulled them off and found the fault immediately. I love this content

Exactly same fault on a Gamecube my friend just picked up and took a hit during shipping. Messed around with pot, then searched on here and up pops Vince. Realigned rack and spring, set pot back to what it was, and its working fine. Thanks Vince.

Another great video Vince. I like how you ask "No that can't be right, Can it" or "Do you think it will work this time?" I usually find myself answering you.

Lovely. Really enjoying these "Fix it Vince" videos.

Nice find. I love how all the videos are very genuine. It fun to watch along as you try and track down issues. Keep the videos coming ;)

Watching him try to grab that spring with the tweezers was making my ADHD kick in LOL. Love watching these videos , keep up the awesome work Vince. 👍👍👍

Nice fix. It's shows that you need to check everything first before doing something. It's a great lesson for all of us. Great video!

I've noticed when British accented English speakers have two sounds with one ending in a vowel and the other beginning with one they insert an 'r' as a bridge between the two sounds. "Aye 'ad an idea'r'about that" "kilo ohms" you inadvertently add the 'r' in-between the vowel sounds. Love the video!

I don't want to sound critical but the problem was obvious if you had been watching the laser move with the disk mounted. Keep up the good work and love the videos.

I bought a gamecube off goodwill and i dont own a multimeter and I did what you said where I just test and adjust, test and adjust, I may have taken a few years off of the life of the laser, but eventually I got it to read a disc every time. cheers, awesome video

Hi Vince, I was screaming at my monitor noticing that the Laser wasn't moving on it's slide but anyway you got there in the end, very well done.

Vince you are not the only one around the world who has an English accent. Many many people in this world speak the English accent

Yet another fix under your bet, nice one Vince ^_^ I've not had to touch my gamecube, but now I know it should be pretty easy to get in and check the mechanicals should I need to

Beautiful video! It seems to be such an easy fix! Also the GameCube is a very pretty and sweet little console :D Easy to work with, just loved watching the almost one hour long video, no regrets!

Your video saved my gamecube i bought for $15, had the same problem with that piece of plastic. Thank you so much!!!

You might lack some knowledge, but through a simple process of elimination you seem to be able to fix quite a few problems. Well done.

Love your videos man. I do the same thing. Compare if possible and see what others have discovered and checking those discoveries as well. Keep them coming man. And pay no attention to the so called negative comments of the proclaimed professionals. Some of them just want to stand on a box and beat their chest like a zilverback. Trying to oppress the diy guy.

You rule at repairing stuff.

The Game Cube is such an awesome little system.

I found one at a garage sale for $5! It has a few scratches on it, but not bad considering it works.

Thanks for the video dude, I have a working Gamecube but it’s silver and I really want an indigo console as I had as a teenager. Been thinking of buying one that needs repair and fixing it. Btw, nice Tag Heuer.

This should be good- I've fixed like 11 of these so I might actually be familiar with what you are looking at too. One interesting misconception about them surrounds the "laser pot"; it is usually attributed with controlling the power that the laser gets, but that is not true! It is a common CD/DVD Drive element known as a "signal" pot. It controls the current level coming from the eye (that sees the reflected light) which is the cut off between detecting a 1 and a 0. This can be needed if the laser is failing , though I suspect that conclusion might get lept to more often than is needed.

Great video. Thanks for doing it. I followed the steps and was able to repair mine. The resistance may be a bit low, it tested at 285, but it is back in specs it was around 640 when I measured it. Thanks again.

What a nice system to work with. Good built quality. I used to have one.

Late to the party, I know, but hopefully this helps a little from what I've read.... The resistance values changed between the original GameCube (dol-001) and the second dol-101. If I remember correctly: 001 had a resistance value setting of 450-600 ohms. By contrast the newer dol-101 (without digital output) had mfg setting of only 150-250 ohms. I'm not sure if it's because Nintendo started using weaker lasers, or if they realized they need more current. Advice to anyone not familiar....that's a very tiny by powerful little potentiometer! Remember to go counter-clockwise to reduce current and add resistance (measured in ohms). And don't use a good game for testing!

Best channel ever ...........Way to go mr Vince

Great video. I work with lasers and gears. Just a suggestion, when I am working on determining good or bad board, I take a black sharpie marker and mark each board either G and B or Good and Bad. Helps me keep track. Then just take some alcohol and the ink comes off easy.

My 19 year old niece picked up a gamecube pretty cheap ($20) from or local letgo from a seller who told her it worked fine. He had positive reviews however after getting used cords from our local video game store she turned on the gamecube and started playing resident evil. The 3 times she turned on the console it randomly shut off after 30-40 minutes of play time. I'm fairly confidant just like a cpu and the heatsink the Nintendo shuts down the console to prevent the chip from frying. My thoughts are either it's clogged and I'll need to clean it(hoping) or that the thermal paste is old and not conducting as well as s bad heatsink fan. Hate to order something I don't need but would hate to not have it when I get to it this weekend/ upcoming week. Thank you and much appreciation!

Another great video, man! New sub here and lovin' this series 😎

glad i watched this to the end. same exact issue. the little screw that holds down the rod. The rod jumped out. Just unscrewed it and popped the rod back into place. cleaned a few hairs out.

Thank you soo much!!! I've been waiting for you to fix my favorite console!

Seeing a lot of comments saying the console isnt expensive its the controllers and games. Dont let this discourage you from buying one. I go to a local goodwill and other thrift stores. Have managed to find super mario sunshine for $20 at one as well as mario golf toadstool tour for $10, SSX tricky for $10, and less exciting titles like madden and tiger woods golf. Theres games out there, online is probably the worst place to buy as most people will there will have high prices

Another great fix Vince love your videos mate

Nice fix Vince. Most electronics guys just say k like 10k or 22k . Yes .3k is 300 ohms but it is still double the value of yours.

Regarding CD drives, they read the location of the files from the file access table on the disk and then try to position the laser to read them. If it can't reach the target position, it throws an error and the laser returns to its park position. :)

Great fault finding would have never thought it was the plastic getting unclipped

I always say killer grams, I never even knew anyone said keelow grams lol

success! great video as always Vince👍

Great one Vince, really enjoy it :D

Well done Vince great job.

Job well done!!! Nice music at the end there too!

Nice job mate !!! your vids are so great to watch, maybe i will take the plunge and buy some faulty tech, got nothing to lose be enjoyable to try

Hi Vince! Love your vids and just watched this one. I’m sure someone has pointed out but the laser runs on Power which is voltage times current so best to read those across the laser instead of just changing the resistance which assumes they’re getting the same input power. Also agree with previous commenter about labelling bad and good with tape or a grease pen! Keep up the good vids! Cheers from canada.

Another great vid and I love the gamecube its a great little system I've accumulated 4 now and I just can't part with them. Keep up the good work.

Another Awesome video as always

Perfect timing. I’m supposed to be repairing some GameCubes for a guy and I already know a little about pot tweaking but I’m glad you uploaded this so I have something to watch before I do attempt to repair them.

I bet it was drop damaged. That's cool Vince

The Wii Shop will be close at 07:00 A.M. R.I.P Wii...😞😢😭

I had a feeling that the problem with the console was what it was at the 4:20 mark when you moved the laser up and it started to grind. Good find on it :D

Finally a GameCube fix. I was waiting for that. A very Nice fix. What a lovely little machine it is. I might find me one for my collection. Keep it up Vince.

Hey Vince, just a tip here. When I work on electronics, I keep a roll of masking tape handy, and use it to mark which boards/items are good or bad. Removes the potential for something being mixed up.

Nice to see you got it working.

Wow, that's amazing! I live in Italy and a gamecube working with audio/video cable and controller it cost about 70-80€ or more than that :/ And a not working console at this price is really impossible D: (You are so lucky! :)

What a satisfying fix! Nintendo and little plastic gears again... you prevailed this time :) There may have been a bit of foreshadowing on the problem. When you moved the laser sled by hand at 4:14, it seemed like it wasn’t smooth - it was more like it moved in two big chunks.

Another fantastic, fun video, thanks vince keep it up :)

The Vincemeister wins again!

Great job again!

Yay been waiting for this

I`m from Liverpool and we often say "Killagram" lol...As usual I learnt a bit more knowledge from your videos:) .....Always check the mechanism first:)

Loved this video vince! The gamecube always had a special place in my heart. Keep on Fixing the (old) consoles ;)

Regarding your multimeter readings, most auto range sensing meters will change at around the 2xxx point. So anything more than 200 Ohms will show has 0.2 - 1.19 K Ohms anything less will show has 0-199 Ohms, so you started with 3XX Ohms but that displays has 0.3XX K Ohms, turned it down, as soon as it got below 0.2 K Ohms (200 Ohms) the auto range sensing jumps it to displaying Ohms and not K Ohms.

As much as Vince wants to take apart this Gamecube, I don't want to hear my doctor say "You know, I hope these antibodies don't make you feel better, because I kinda want to perform surgery on you."

I love these. they are ASMR type of videos. See you on the next one!

Awesome! Lovely fix 😊

Not sure if you wanna get into the mod stuff, but in watching your skills grow..... and help mine! thank you so much.... you have the ability to, and its quite fun :)

Great video, really enjoyed it, if you re-watch it and compare the laser traveling of both you can see the mechanism not travel as far on the broken one before you realized what was wrong, I'm no expert for sure (yesterday I had 'GamCube day' litterally as it took me nearly 3 hours to chip one plus I changed the LED for a rainbow one) but I think it does a disc check before it attempts to boot the disc, just to self test it's own mechanism.

Great work on fixing it =)

Very nice thanks for all the videos!!!

Vince my favorite Tech guy... How are you doing brother

I love how you say Kilo, beware the KILLA OUHHHM! XD

Enjoyed this Vince & Double Dash is the best Mario kart in my opinion I also have 2 GameCube consoles & the black console stopped reading discs only 2 months old still have it in it’s Mario kart box so basically still brand new but I couldn’t get a direct replacement at the time so went out & purchased a purple console that came with Donkey Konga & still have that too

Great job My Mate VINCE

Yay! A retro console fix it vid!

You know you are engaging with your audience.... When I find myself yelling at the screen, while you are doing it.... I'm always yelling at the screen.... I wish you could hear me sometimes.... I actually know something about electricity.... Heh heh heh! You seem to get there in the end, so.... It's all good....

I love watching your stuff. the length makes it even better. Keep it up buddy!

My guess was off (I thought it might of been a motor problem since the faulty GC sounded worse spinning up) though it's nice that it was a simple fix.

Very nice fix!!!!

#1 rule, check everything mechanical first before heading to the electronics.

Yes! What a great video! I love your repair vlogs, they got my tinkerer bug itchy and now I'm waiting on two faulty Psps to arrive :P Keep up the great work mate!

My dad thought it was a good idea to throw my GameCube on the ground as hard as he could when he got angry one time and I had the same problem with the game disc not spinning. I wanted to fix it but I was only like 12 at the time so I didn't know anything about how to fix it, but I knew something had to of been knocked out of place or broken. Now I have a better idea of what the problem could be. Even though I already got a new gamecube, it's always better to have a backup one and I prefer the purple over the silver. I don't think anything is wrong with the laser, but I'll have to take it apart to really find out.

I like your Repair videos

I doubt that nobody already said it it 1+ years, but when removing a disc out of a Gamecube, you should press the shiny little eject-button that's in the middle of the disc. That way both the mechanism and the discs stay intact longer! :)

Nice job matey kudos to you !!

This is one of the best fix it video's ive watched you do......I thoroughly enjoyed it , it was very entertaining from start to finish........amazing fix i would never of guessed it would of been a mechanical fault rather than electrical.......wtg vince well done........and thankyou for sharing.....really good entertainment.....!

My GC has similar problem, I tried messing with the potentiometer but had no luck, I thought about buying a new laser and swap but it might be that my GC has the same problem as yours do Thanks for the video, I'll check the laser first

Hi Vince, now that you got the Gamecube working you should look into the HDMI mod. I've seen videos of people taking out the digital out connector and replacing it with an HDMI port. I'm looking into it myself but it would be cool if you were to try it out as well!

Great Job and good Video!

Great video as always Vince, and a great fix too, although I am worried that with all this hair you are finding, you will leave this vocation, and start up your own "How to fix your wig" or" My Mate Wig.com channel lol! :)

Vince you should make a review of your soldering station! I also have 853D solderig station and it's a really good station

Variable resistors are variable for a reason. If every gamecube had that resistance value the exact same, they would just make them with a resistor that has a fixed value. I'm saying you shouldn't expect the values of the variable resistors from each unit to be the same. I don't know how Nintendo does it, but I believe most are set at a precise value at the factory. The reason is that nearly no component in a circuit will be exactly spot on for its rated values. For instance a 47k ohm resistor may actually have a value of 43k or even 51k. Capacitors also never measure their rated values. Thats just how components are. The VR is put there to tune something in when precision is needed. However, you can usually find a value that works well enough by playing around with it a bit.