Repair on NCoT Tech

Soldering a Solar Light in the Sun

Sat, 11 May 2024 20:41:14 +0000

I bought a pair of cheapo outdoor solar lights from Amazon. One is on my shed round the back of the house, the other is on the shed at the front of the house. Yes, I have a bit of a shed obsession. After a few days the front one stopped working. I took it apart to find out why…

Repairing my Ryobi drill battery

Sun, 25 Jun 2023 14:11:35 +0000

So I joined the Ryobi battery cult, but since their batteries are expensive I did the obvious thing and bought some off Amazon from random third party companies. The batteries seem to work well.

Atari ST Mouse - How’s it work anyway?

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 22:29:11 +0000

Meet the world’s worse mouse design ever. The Atari ST mouse. Amiga owners liked their tank mice, we ST owners didn’t like ours. It was square, uncomfortable and prone to breaking quite easily.

Upgrading My Atari ST to 4MB

Wed, 14 Jul 2021 15:50:46 +0000

I upgrade my Atari STFM to 4MB of RAM using a Marpet XTra RAM Deluxe board

Tired Psu Repair My Atari 520STFM

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 21:33:02 +0000

So just how bad is a nearly 30 year old power supply? Let’s find out!

SMT Soldering and Atari ST Repairs

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 20:52:48 +0000

Yesterday I recapped my ST’s PSU which went well, nothing exploded. However when trying to boot the machine it kept crashing, especially when it went to the desktop.

Tecknet Mechanical Keyboard Repair

Sun, 30 May 2021 21:12:25 +0000

I wanted a mechanical keyboard with Windows keys. I have an IBM Model M keyboard, but its lack of Windows keys makes using Windows 10 more annoying than it should be. I don’t hunt and peck around the start menu, I’ve learnt to press the Windows key and just start typing the program I want to open.

Switch Joycon Drift Repair

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 18:59:40 +0000

Here is how I fixed the drift on my Nintendo Switch Joy-Con. It is properly fixed, not just putting cleaner into the thumbstick. I will also be showing how to swap the shell of the joy-con for a different style. You don’t have to do this if all you want is to do is repair your joy-con.