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Retro Tech Restorations

@retro-tech.bsky.social
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I fumble around on my YouTube channel trying to repair old stuff. Mainly vintage audio gear such as tube/transistor radios, amplifiers, cassette decks, record players, test equipment, ... 🇧🇪 📻📷💿📼💾🕹 youtube.com/@retro_tech

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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My 2 euro flea market find of yesterday. A budget entry-level SoundBlaster Live from 1999 in unknown condition. Not really anything special, but hopefully it still does what it needs to do: make some noise.
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm calling this mixtape "So eighties, it hurts"
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Fans: "Stop adding boring street circuits!" FIA: "You know what? I'm gonna start adding even more boring street circuits." #F1 #SpanishGP #Madring
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is my life now. 🥴
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Holy crap, working on this radio is a nightmare. All those black caps need to be changed and some are buried really deep inside. Also, turns out all the carbon comp resistors are bad too! So that means: even more work. Yay. 😒
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This one is cleaning up quite well.
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Maximum temperature here today. Needless to say, no major activities were done today.
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I've found a lot of weird things in old equipment. Especially in pinball machines you are often up for surprises. But this one is a first: found an old razor blade in this radio.
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
When I saw a couple of weeks ago how my channel growth had stagnated, I thought that it would never get to 4000 subscribers before the end of the year. Well, that certainly changed after my last video upload. Thanks a lot, everyone!
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
So, I have to take my last two posts back. Yesterday afternoon my latest video just took off. At the moment it's among my best performing videos in the first 48 hours ever. Thanks everyone!
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Yay. 23 views after the first 2 hours for my new video. Not sure why I still bother uploading videos to YouTube.
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Us radio restorers can do that trick too!
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The last evening of BBC on longwave. Picking it up so strong here in Belgium, indoors with the built in ferrite rod. Too bad this will be gone tomorrow. If you don't know how big of a deal this is: they started transmitting in 1934.
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
If you have an arcade cabinet in Belgium running 90s games, according to me it should accept 20 francs coins. So that's what I'm wiring up at the moment.
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Coin door wiring spaghetti. #retrogaming
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I'm gonna erase this one. Sorry, @janbeta.net 🇩🇪🕺
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
It works! Finally, after so many setbacks with this machine! Video about it on my YouTube channel soon.
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Well, looks like the recap didn't help. Still not managing to get the horizontal sync correct. No clue where to go next from here.
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
If this is my last Bluesky post, you know what happened.
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
That's fun. I also own an N4416. Here's mine. Also, that metal Sony R-7MB spool is definitely worth saving. I have a couple like that and they're great.
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Oh man. I've been spending a week now redoing and redoing and redoing the lacquer on this radio and I can't seem to get it right. Looks like I'll have to restart AGAIN. FML
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I have an old friend on the workbench. Hopefully in a video soon...
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
A vendor at my local flea market had 3 boxes full of new (in package) PC accessories from the early 2000s. Fans, CPU coolers, LEDs, cold cathodes, you name it. #retrocomputing
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I haven't posted any videos lately and the reason is that I bought a 3D printer. Now this bad boy is extruding all remaining free time I still had in my life. Currently I have it up and running pretty well, so I should be able to focus again on making videos soon.
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Oh joy.
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Marantz makes some nice stuff, but boy I hate their remotes.
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
FOR FUCKS SAKE.
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
While replacing some ceiling spotlights, I suddenly got a dose of PTSD induced by Half-Life. #retrogaming
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Well, I've this bad boy on the bench...
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
"Let's quickly burn an EPROM." is what I thought yesterday. Boy that turned out differently. Spent the entire evening trying to get my (almost) 30-year old programmer to work with Windows 11. But I finally got there in the end! #retrocomputing #retrogaming
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
More shame on me. Another case of leaked batteries in one of my pinball machines 🤦‍♂️ I'm just gonna bite the bullet and convert all my machines to NVRAM.
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
It is done!
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
So that's half the panel done. Much better!
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
So this is my current task... Correcting the sloppy wiring I did on this arcade control panel 15 years ago. #retrogaming
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Some new acquisitions. Maybe on the channel in the future at some point...
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
It survived the ride! #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #CRT #RetroGaming
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I bought my PS2 on release day. (24/11/2000). Here is the receipt. It cost friggin' 600 euros (including one game).
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I have retrieved the original boxes from my first PC from my parents' attic. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Cable spaghetti
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Recording some background music for my Halloween party next week.🎃👻
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
A bit ashamed to share this, but this is what happens when you don't check your pinball machines' batteries for 10 years. Luckily I installed a separate battery holder 10 years ago when I restored this machine. Check your batteries, fellas!
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Well, I wasn't expecting that. Nice!
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This deserves an "Oh Nice!", pronounced like Onslow from Keeping Up Appearances
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Built myself a XUM1541-II to connect my 1541 disk drive to a modern PC. Works great! #commodore64
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Never fun if something breaks in the RF section of a radio. Soldering 0.1mm diameter copper wires can be quite a frustrating experience.
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Well I'm using my first Commodore 64 for exactly 3 days now, and here I am correcting bad sectors on floppy disks by directly editing hex data. Boy, this escalated quickly. #retrocomputing #Commodore64
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
It works!
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Retro Tech Restorations @retro-tech.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
At least the printer still works... #commodore64 #retrocomputing
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