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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 10:08:37 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   it turns out it's a special layer of hell to watch on youtube try and mostly fail to repair a device you've repaired before

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 10:09:23 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     especially since you've been yelling since minute one that THERE'S A SERVICE MANUAL, YOU SHOULD LOOK UP HOW THAT CABLE IS ROUTED: IT'S IMPORTANT

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 10:09:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     oh god they've pulled out a dremel

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 10:11:47 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     fun fact: double-sided laserdisc players have a single ribbon cable that is used to let the read head flip upside down to read the top as well as the bottom.

     the routing of that flex cable is fucking CRUICIAL

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 10:12:43 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     you do it wrong and the player will rip the cable in half trying to play the top side

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 10:14:03 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     like don't get me wrong, I've also repaired laserdisc players without looking up manuals I should have (I repair a surprising number of laserdisc players for 2024), but you shouldn't make my mistakes

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 10:14:37 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     also everyone is obsessed with changing belts.

     your laserdisc player probably doesn't have a belt. That's not how Pioneer made them (at least in the last decade or so, maybe some of the early players did)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 10:15:12 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     they've got a spin-the-disc motor, a move-the-head motor, and an eject-the-tray motor. No belts on any of those, they're just geared

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 10:16:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     The tray gears are probably the easiest to break. especially if the tray ever got stuck open, and someone tried to close it manually. That'll easily just destroy the track, which is plastic on many models

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 10:17:49 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     but you won't need to replace a belt. No belts.

   • h0h0kam (hohokam@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 10:35:32 JST h0h0kam

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     @foone where can I watch this?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 10:35:32 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • h0h0kam

     @hohokam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4otoltE2Vw

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 12:41:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Determination G. Schadenfreude

     @gregly thankfully not (they just were adjusting some temporary DIY fixes they had added) but I still had a moment of OH GOD NO NOT THE DREMEL and I got 8-bit-guy flashbacks

   • Determination G. Schadenfreude (gregly@retro.pizza)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 12:41:56 JST Determination G. Schadenfreude

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     @foone oh god I hope it’s not like when The 8-Bit Gun absolutely destroyed the leather handle of an old luggable (don’t remember which) by Retrobriting the case, exposing the leather to corrosive fumes

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 12:46:54 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Determination G. Schadenfreude

     @gregly yup!

   • Determination G. Schadenfreude (gregly@retro.pizza)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 12:46:55 JST Determination G. Schadenfreude

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     @foone If it had been just that stuff with him I’d have let it pass; god knows some of my early “restoration” or repair attempts were total nightmares… but his later “open-carrying an automatic weapon at the store to own the libs” video milkshake-ducked him faster than I thought possible.