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zebra2  ·  2720 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 31, 2018

My Casio VL-1 arrived. It doesn't work. I intend to pop it open and fix it though. There's a single striped screw holding me back, so I need to drill the head off it. Casio apparently used adamantium screws in this era.





kleinbl00  ·  2719 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That plastic also hardened over time and the screws are base metal.

If it won't power up it's probably the power capacitors. Www.tayda.com.

user-inactivated  ·  2718 days ago  ·  link  ·  

https://www.taydaelectronics.com/ For those wondering what they are talking about.

zebra2  ·  2719 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I’ve bought a bunch of pieces from tayda since you first linked me to it. I’ve got a considerable backlog of soldering projects, breadboard circuits to test, and so on.