Amiga · C64 · Pravetz · Audio
Retro electronics repair
Anything with a board inside that once worked can usually work again. Old computers and audio gear are more repairable than modern equipment, because they were built to be repaired.
Book a repair from 50 €
Home computers from the 80s — Amiga, Commodore 64, Pravetz — all suffer from the same thing: leaking board batteries that eat the copper around them. The earlier it is caught, the less trace it leaves. Where corrosion has spread, traces get rebuilt: slow work, but it holds.
Audio is its own case. In tape decks the rubber belts turn to tar and the tape stops moving; in amplifiers the potentiometers crackle and the output transistors are sometimes gone. All of it is still obtainable.
What it covers
- Recovery from a leaked battery and board corrosion
- Capacitor replacement in computers and audio gear
- New belts and mechanism alignment in tape decks
- Amplifier repair — potentiometers and output stages
- Power supply repair and cable replacement
- Mods for a modern monitor or a memory-card drive
What usually comes in
- The computer will not boot or shows a wrong startup screen
- There is green or white corrosion on the board
- The tape deck runs slow or does not turn at all
- The amplifier crackles when the knob is turned
- It smells of burning after switching on