Hey VB fans! This is Ben, the repair guy that tydyedsyko mentioned. I’ve been getting a lot of requests, and I appreciate it. I’m a big nintendo fan and I enjoy repairing retro electronics and video games. I started doing repairs for a local seller and started getting requests from other sources. I do this purely for the joy of keeping VB’s going, as I am so impressed by the hardware, I really consider it’s short life a tragedy.
Anyways, keep ’em coming, I’m happy to solder your displays. I took some photos of the most recent set I did for anyone interested. The pictures from the units above were rather unusual as BOTH displays had cracks in the ribbon cable. I’ve never encountered this before but was able to apply a little heat and solder and bridge the cracks. I don’t usually have to do this.
After trying the method using LYE to dissolve the ribbons (which takes hours) I’ve devised this method which is much faster and just as effective.
Here is the whole process. It takes me about 30 minutes per set if everything goes well, more if I have to rework and retest when I run into unexpected “complications” (such as the case above 🙂
